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Browse SciQuest reporting and explainers in reverse chronological order, with the newest evidence-led stories first.
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Laboratory experiment
In 62 lab earthquakes, slow slip sped up before rupture on smooth faults only at low stress. A clue for field studies, not a way to predict real quakes.
news Earth Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Sediment-core proxy study
Deep-sea drill cores suggest the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lost its Thwaites and Pine Island sector in every earlier warm period of the past 800,000 years.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Genetic study of one wild population
All 12 Swiss lynx found with a fatal organ disease carried two copies of one FGF23 variant, which arrived with founders moved from the Alps, a study finds.
explainer Biology
Pet box turtles can live 25 to 50 years, sea turtles an estimated 30 to 80+ and giant tortoises over 150. What vet records, field data and Jonathan, 194, show.
news Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Population genomics (observational, 8–12 years)
DNA from 486 lanternfish and shrimp sampled in the Gulf from 2011 to 2023 shows small effective populations, a risk signal rather than observed extinction.
news Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Modelling study
A model finds argon-40 inherited by Uranus and Neptune could swamp the signal from rock inside them, so a future probe may learn more about their origins.
news Astronomy Evidence status: Official announcement · Public data release
ESA's Euclid released DR1-Foundation on 12 November 2026: over a billion objects in 1,900 square degrees. What the data hold and why cosmology waits until 2027.
explainer Biology
Pet hamsters live about two years: UK vet records put the median age at death at 1.75 years. Syrian vs dwarf lifespans, wild hamsters and the 4.5-year record.
news Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Radio and optical observations of one system
A white dwarf pulsing every 7.9 minutes circles a Sun-like star in GPM J0715−1141, Nature Astronomy study finds; the 1.35-day orbit awaits optical checks.
