https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-astronomers-saw-a-distant-star-shoot-some-of-its-plasma-into-space-180987696/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1tQfOiwjCxCnyy_6tffrC1 For the first time, astronomers confirmed a massive expulsion of plasma from a star other than the sun. A burping star about 130 light-years from Earth spat out the cloud of electrically charged gas, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), from its outer …

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/climate/plastic-sea-turtles-animals-study.html&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3mwxw3l9Q-Wu0Vrcwt5xjJ Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly.

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/tokyo-insight-monet-classic-on-sale-as-activist-targets-art&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGmNiMTVlYTZiM2IxZGNhOGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0o2NfeRkskQV54eGWkYCCt Facing more pressure from activist investors to increase returns, one Japanese company is turning to its art holdings, selling off paintings by …

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://ctexaminer.com/events/the-years-end-seasonal-paintings-by-the-silvermine-group-of-artists-at-new-canaan-museum-historical-society/2025-12-31/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGmNiMTVlYTZiM2IxZGNhOGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1b9AqUAyif-rZh-Y_Ssj6L The Year’s End: Seasonal Paintings by the Silvermine Group of Artists at New Canaan Museum & Historical Society. December 31 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.kuow.org/stories/why-some-ant-colonies-get-tricked-into-killing-their-own-queens&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0NPFepsIPPzstW7qamLxbU The founding of an ant colony by a would-be queen, however, is a precarious, fragile business. The female ant faces a lot of danger as she leaves the protection of the nest and lays the eggs that will produce her first group of workers.

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.biotechniques.com/crispr/regulating-a-gene-central-to-the-immune-system/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1T7UCENpj1cc4tfuBIZq50 In the new work, Marson’s lab used CRISPR-based gene silencing technology to systematically test 15,000 sites in the DNA surrounding the FOXP3 gene. They were looking for genetic regulatory elements – nearby stretches of DNA that act like dimmer switches, …

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://desitalkchicago.com/bharat-parv-2025-young-artist-showcases-indias-storytelling-heritage-through-cheriyal-paintings/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGmNiMTVlYTZiM2IxZGNhOGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3hJgRZYGE1k7sxu6P2DUr7 Cheriyal Painting, a traditional scroll art form from Telangana’s small town of Cheriyal, proudly holds the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for its …

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/17/brain-organoid-pioneers-fear-backlash-over-biocomputing/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw3Re79iEmkLM-_JTzV82JVN PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — For the brain organoids in Lena Smirnova’s lab at Johns Hopkins University, there comes a time in their short lives when they must graduate from the cozy bath of the bioreactor, leave the warm salty broth behind and be plopped …

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/bookends/back-on-earth-astronaut-chris-hadfield-writes-about-space-9.6977807&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjhkNWEwOGZjMjBkZTUxYzc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0ToxHZ7XEwOP17X7N6wtnu What does one do when returning to Earth after three trips to space? That’s a question Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield faced upon landing his final mission. “You sort of emerge almost newborn out of that ship,” said Hadfield on an episode of Bookends …