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A new analysis estimates that the world’s highest-consuming 10% generate trillions of dollars in environmental damage each year across climate, biodiversity, pollution, and water systems. Credit: Shutterstock A new study finds that biodiversity loss accounts for the largest share of global environmental damage, surpassing climate change. A relatively small share of the world’s population may be causing environmental damage on the same financial scale as the global effort needed to repair it.

The world’s largest oceanic plateau may have formed through a mantle process more complex than previously thought. Credit: Stock A thermochemical plume may explain how Earth’s largest oceanic plateau formed beneath the sea. Buried beneath the western Pacific is a volcanic structure so vast that it rivals the size of a continent.

Higher-than-normal sea surfaces (red) are visible in the central and eastern Pacific on June 8, 2026, a few days before El Niño was declared. Data for the map were acquired by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite and processed by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin A powerful climate signal is building across the tropical Pacific, and satellites can see it rising in the ocean itself.

Scientists have directly observed collagen inside living cells in an unexpected liquid-like state, challenging the rigid structure long associated with the body’s most abundant protein. Credit: Shutterstock A new study challenges a 60-year-old assumption about the body’s main structural building block, opening new possibilities for treating fibrosis and cancer.

Researchers have developed a fully human antibody that suppressed tumor growth and metastatic spread in preclinical models of aggressive prostate cancer. Credit: Shutterstock A fully human antibody showed promise against aggressive prostate cancer in preclinical testing. For most men diagnosed with prostate cancer, the disease grows slowly.

Statins may trigger muscle symptoms by altering how muscle cells produce energy, setting off a damaging immune response. Credit: Shutterstock The discovery may explain why some people experience side effects from statins and could lead to future therapies that make the drugs easier to tolerate. A drug can save the heart and still trouble the muscle. Statins work by blocking a key step in the body’s cholesterol-making machinery, primarily in the liver.

The illustration shows ambipolar diffusion in a collapsing prestellar core. Neutral molecules decouple from the magnetic field and fall inward faster than ions, which remain tied to the field lines. This process weakens magnetic support, allowing the core to collapse and eventually form a protostar. Credit: Yurika Nakamura and Doris Arzoumanian/Kyushu University A newly observed molecular drift may reveal how magnetic fields weaken before a star is born. A star does not begin with light.

A decades-old dark matter claim is facing a decisive new challenge. The result clears the way for future searches to focus on unexplored signals and lower-mass dark matter candidates. Credit: Yale University Two experiments designed to detect signals directly found no evidence for the signal reported by an earlier experiment. For nearly three decades, one dark matter claim has refused to disappear.

Artist’s rendition of an Active Galactic Nucleus with the accretion disk highlighted. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab Dust patterns around quasars may help reveal supermassive black holes kicked from galactic centers. When galaxies collide, the chaos does not stop with stars and gas. At the center of each galaxy, Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) can fall into a tightening gravitational dance, spiraling together until they merge into one enormous remnant.

Nanoparticles form in bacterial membranes within mine water. Credit: HZDR/J. Raff/E. Krawczyk-Bärsch/edited with AI Bacteria may offer an unexpected way to immobilize uranium in contaminated water. Uranium contamination is difficult to manage because the metal can change chemical form. When uranium remains locked inside minerals, it is relatively immobile.