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Browse SciQuest reporting and explainers in reverse chronological order, with the newest evidence-led stories first.
News AI Evidence status: Preprint · Laboratory bacteriophage study
Biology · Preprint. A 44,000-variant map of bacteriophage ΦX174 exposes mutation effects that leading biological AI models still struggle to predict.
News AI Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Cross-sectional study
A cross-sectional study links emotional-support use of generative AI with youth psychological distress, but it cannot establish cause and effect.
News Astronomy Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Model-based geophysical inference
Sixteen years of spacecraft tracking indicate a much warmer, softer mantle beneath southern Mars, though the temperatures are model-based.
News Anthropology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Wild-animal kinematic study
Wild sooty mangabeys flex their midfeet by as much as 46 degrees, showing why fossil foot shape alone cannot settle ancient climbing ability.
News Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Embryology and comparative anatomy
More than 800 embryo images reveal a shared right-handed spiral, with unequal growth around a gut tether offering a mechanical explanation.
News Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Comparative anatomical study
A broad skull comparison suggests the extinct thylacine used fast snapping bites on smaller prey—not wolf-like attacks on sheep.
News Physics Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Laboratory aerospace experiment
A laboratory magnetic field pushed a simulated spacecraft’s glowing reentry shock layer about 16% farther from the model.
News Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Laboratory and genomic study
Drying damages tuberculosis DNA and activates repair pathways that may help some rifampin-resistant strains survive transmission.
News Biology Evidence status: Peer reviewed · Cell and tissue imaging study
New fluorescent probes image chromatin at 20 nanometres in living cells and localize dyes to about 3 nanometres in preserved cells.
