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Latest science news: Roman roads | Bear attacks | Comet 3I/ATLAS updates - Live Science
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"Unveiling Cosmological Wonders: Explore Comet 3I/ATLAS and Beyond at '3I/ATLAS Hub'"
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world – Nature
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Illustration: Ibrahim ArafathOzempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
Under President Donald Trump, the US government is gutting scientific research. The National Institutes of Health has cut almost US$2 billion of grants that were already approved, and the National Science Foundation has terminated more than 1,400 grants. And the president has even bigger plans to eviscerate science. His proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 would cut non-defence-related research and development by 36%.
“They have cancelled wholesale a wide variety of research efforts in midstream,” says John Holdren at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was the science adviser to former president Barack Obama during both his terms. “They intend to now solidify it with cuts in the budgets.”
The cancelled and threatened research is a mixture of ‘applied’ work that has stated applications, which can be commercial in nature, and ‘basic’ or ‘blue skies’ research, intended to develop new knowledge.From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Basic research is easily mocked because it can seem impractical, but, in fact, it is a major driver of economic growth. “The return on investment in basic research — the return to society — is very high, typically multiple dollars back per dollar invested,” says Holdren.
The US funding cuts will hit basic research particularly hard because the government has historically been the prime supporter of fundamental research. The private sector will never invest enough in such research, says Holdren. “The timescale for returns is too long and the ability of the funder to capture those returns too uncertain,” he says. “That’s the reason that the funding of fundamental research is, at its base, a responsibility of government.”
Although it’s impossible to estimate how the reductions in federal support might limit future discoveries, scientists point to a long list of findings that emerged out of fundamental research and went on to change the world. Here are a few examples.
From hot springs to DNA forensics
In the summer of 1966, while he was an undergraduate at Indiana University, Hudson Freeze went to live in a cabin on the edge of Yellowstone National Park. He was working for microbiologist Thomas Brock, who was convinced that certain microorganisms were living at surprisingly high temperatures. Dodging bears, and the traffic jams they caused, Freeze visited the hot springs every day to sample their bacteria.
Thomas Brock stands by Mushroom Spring in Yellowstone National Park in 1967. Bacteria that thrive in high-temperature fluids were discovered at the site.Credit: Thomas Brock/USGSOn 19 September, Freeze succeeded in growing a sample of yellowish microbes from Mushroom Spring. Under a microscope, he found an array of cells collected from the near-boiling fluids. “I was seeing something that nobody had ever seen before,” says Freeze, now at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, California. “I still get goosebumps when I remember looking into the microscope.”
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Ça me parait être une très bonne solution pour notre tour d’Europe, à voir comment évoluera le développement d’ici 1an et demi.
Merci à @zipsm15 pour ce beau projet !
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25035 #rocks #discoveries #papers #events #HackerNews #ngated
🎉🎈BREAKING: #Science discovers what #glasses have been doing for centuries, but now with more surgery! 🤖🔍 Meanwhile, Nature.com recommends a better #browser while totally not worrying about your #privacy at all. 🕵️♂️🔒
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🔍 BREAKING: Math nerds finally find a shape that can't do the limbo—what a revelation! 🎉 Next up, discovering that water is wet and the sky is blue. 🙄 Bravo, #Quanta, for tackling the truly #groundbreaking mysteries of our time. 🏆
https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-found-that-cant-pass-through-itself-20251024/ #mathnews #discoveries #limbo #science #humor #HackerNews #ngated
☕️🛌✨ WOW, ground-breaking #revelations from the caffeine-free realm! Who knew it would take nearly a year to discover that quitting coffee doesn’t turn you into a hyperactive squirrel? 😂🎉 Maybe next they’ll uncover the shocking truth that water is wet! 🔍💧
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How one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world was uncovered in the UK
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Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize
https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-discover-the-optimal-way-to-optimize-20251013/
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Scientists discover intercellular nanotubular communication system in brain
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7403
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🤔🤦♂️ So the writer discovers that ZIP files have an index? Groundbreaking! Next, they'll reveal that books have tables of contents too. 📚✨ Meanwhile, the rest of us continue using ZIPs like normal humans without pondering their "guts." 🙄🔍
https://ritiksahni.com/blog/peeking-inside-gigantic-zips-with-only-kilobytes/ #ZIPFiles #Indexing #Groundbreaking #Discoveries #HackerNews #NormalHumans #HackerNews #ngated
Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63417-y
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Stockholm - This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking dis... https://news.osna.fm/?p=18231 | #news #discoveries #groundbreaking #honors #immunology
अनूठे जहाज़ – ख्यातोस्लाव साखर्नीव ( Wondorous Ships In Hindi by Svyatoslav Sakharnov)
सागरों में जहाज चलते हैं। भाप छोड़ते हैं, नुकीले सिरों से पानी को चीरते हैं और अपने काम-काज पूरे करने की उतावली में रहते हैं।
किसी जहाज की धुआं-चिमनी ऊंची होती है और किसी की नीची। कोई तो तीन बजरे आसानी से खींच ले जाता है और कोई खुद भी बड़ी मुश्किल से रेंगता है। कुछ जहाज सुन्दर होते हैं और कुष्टछ भद्दे। प्रत्येक भिन्न-भिन्न होता है।
इन जहाजों के भाग्य भी अलग-अलग होते हैं- कोई खुशकिस्मत, तो कोई बदकिस्मत, किसी को बड़ा आदर-सत्कार मिलता है, तो किसी को भुला दिया जाता है।
लोगों की तरह जहाज भी अलग-अलग और अनूठे होते हैं।
अनुवादक : मदनलाल ‘मधु’ चित्रकार : व्लादीमिर सूरिकोव
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🎉 Oh wow, someone discovered that the #internet isn’t just a series of tubes! 🚀 Apparently, IX LANs still exist in the wild, but they're as exciting as watching paint dry while the internet consolidates into a few mega-corporate fortresses 🏰. Truly #groundbreaking #revelations here, folks! 🙄✨
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-bad-broadcast-packets-interesting #discoveries #IXLANs #mega-corporations #technews #HackerNews #ngated
'Clearest sign' yet of ancient life on Mars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0
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Kazakhstan’s dry season reveals Paleolithic tools Bronze Age treasures Saka jewelry and ruins of a lost medieval city showcasing millennia of history across the steppe timesca.com/underwater-s... #Kazakhstan #Archaeology #History #SilkRoad #Discoveries #ArchaeologicalFinds
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Kazakhstan’s dry season reveals Paleolithic tools Bronze Age treasures Saka jewelry and ruins of a lost medieval city showcasing millennia of history across the steppe https://timesca.com/underwater-secrets-of-the-steppe-archaeologists-unearth-ancient-artifacts-in-kazakhstans-bogen-reservoir/ #Kazakhstan #Archaeology #History #SilkRoad #Discoveries #ArchaeologicalFinds
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏺📜 A royal decree about tax cuts became the key to reading 3,500 years of Egyptian civilization. The Rosetta Stone's three scripts gave scholars exactly what they needed to crack hieroglyphs after centuries of failed attempts.
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