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Synesthesia isn't just in your mind. The body reacts as if the colors were real.
Pupil size in people with synesthesia changed depending on how bright or dark the perceived colors were.
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Save 20% on our all-time favorite air purifier ahead of the hay fever season
The Levoit Core 600S-P takes the top spot in our guide to the best air purifiers for allergies — and now, you can get it for just $239.99 at Walmart and Amazon.
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Live Science Today: Jaw-dropping first glimpse of sperm whale birth and how NASA is turning astronauts into test subjects
Friday, March 27, 2026: Your daily roundup of the biggest science stories making headlines.
Scientists discover bizarre new states inside tiny magnetic whirlpools
Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, they triggered a delicate motion that produced a rich spectrum of signals never seen before in this system. The finding challenges existing as
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'Major disruption in Neanderthal history': 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage
The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.
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Astronauts will 'absolutely be test subjects': NASA's moon plans pose big questions — and big risks
Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don't yet fully understand.
Scientists stunned as Mars dust storms blast water into space
Mars may look like a frozen desert today, but new evidence suggests its watery past didn’t simply fade away quietly—it may have been blasted into space by powerful dust storms. Scientists have discovered that even relatively small, localized storms can hurl water vapor high into the atmosphere, wher
Scientists discover “alien space weather stations” that could reveal habitable planets
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ magnetic fields. These structures act like built-in space weather monitors, revealing how energetic par
Analytica 2026: Waters’ Xevo CDMS targets rapid measurement of viral vectors and other high-mass analytes
Analytica 2026, Munich — Waters Corporation’s Xevo CDMS, launched in October 2025, is a benchtop charge detection mass spectrometer (CDMS) built around an Electrostatic Linear Ion Trap (ELIT) that measures individual ions’ mass-to-charge ratio and charge simultaneously, calculating true molecular ma
Scientists create clear nail polish that lets you use touchscreens with long nails
Using a smartphone with long nails can be frustrating, forcing people to awkwardly tap with their fingertips instead of their nails. Now, researchers are working on a clear nail polish that could change that by turning fingernails into touchscreen-friendly tools. By experimenting with dozens of form
Droplet Biosciences cuts genomic analysis time from 10 days to two with NVIDIA-accelerated computing
Droplet Biosciences, a diagnostics company using lymph-based liquid biopsy testing, is reducing genomic analysis time with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, improving test turnaround times. Unlike blood tests, which are widely used for minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring, lymphatic fluid allows for e
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2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals
Researchers extracted DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment found in Russia's Denisova Cave, and the genome is shedding light on how small and isolated their groups were.
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18 million-year-old fossils of ape found in Africa, but in an unexpected place
The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.
What every regulated lab should plan before building a cleanroom
In regulated research and manufacturing environments, safety and compliance are shaped long before a cleanroom space or a lab becomes operational. Decisions about airflow, room adjacencies, material flow, and surface finishes directly affect contamination control, workflow efficiency, and regulatory
How Syngenta turned a CNC router into a precision media dispenser for 1/50th of the cost
Researchers at Syngenta built a custom Automated Media Dispensing System (AMDS) by repurposing an off-the-shelf OpenBuilds CNC router, showing how manufacturing hardware can be adapted into precision lab instruments for a fraction of commercial cost. They published their findings in SLAS Technology.
Unlocking AI’s potential in the lab: Practical strategies to strengthen your automation and data foundation
It’s accepted wisdom that digital transformation in the lab, including AI, can produce a significant improvement in efficiency, reproducibility and scientific insights. Life sciences organizations now see AI as the route to accelerating every step of the discovery process, from hypothesis generation
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Astronauts may struggle to reproduce in outer space, study suggests — what does that mean for the future of space colonization?
A new study found that microgravity simulated on Earth hindered sperm cell movement, egg fertilization and embryo development — findings that have serious implications for the future of space colonization.
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Brain aging results from a loss of control over how genes are regulated, mouse study suggests
Aging may "erase" the epigenetic markers that control gene expression in the brain, and this may create a snowball effect.
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Live Science Today: Meta and Google fined for causing social media addiction and how dogs were our friends for millennia
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Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds
A third-century mosaic shows a topless woman battling a leopard in a Roman arena.