Stardust & Sources

Where science headlines actually stand, read from the primary sources.

Science and technology headlines often run ahead of the research behind them. Each article here starts from the primary source, usually the peer-reviewed paper or an official registry, and sets out three things: what was actually found, how far along the work is, and what it has not shown yet.

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Earth & Climate (1) · Oceans (1) · Space & Astronomy (2) · Food & Body Science (1)

Latest articles

• How Do We Know Carbon Dioxide Is Rising? The Mauna Loa Record Explained

  Earth & Climate · 2026-10-22

  Carbon dioxide has been measured on a Hawaiian volcano since 1958. How the measurement works, what NOAA's numbers show, how fast the rise is now and what the data cannot tell you.

• How Does the Sun Make Its Energy? What Underground Neutrino Detectors Confirmed

  Space & Astronomy · 2026-10-22

  The Sun fuses hydrogen into helium. Between 2014 and 2020 the Borexino detector in Italy caught the neutrinos from both fusion routes. What it measured and what is still open.

• Can an Antibody Regrow Teeth? What the Anti-USAG-1 Study Showed and What It Did Not

  Food & Body Science · 2026-10-22

  A Japanese team grew extra whole teeth in mice and ferrets by blocking one protein, USAG-1. What the Science Advances paper measured, how far the work has come, and its limits.

• Where Did Earth's Gold Come From? What the 2017 Neutron-Star Collision Showed

  Space & Astronomy · 2026-10-22

  Gold is made by the r-process, and in 2017 astronomers watched a neutron-star merger make heavy elements. What GW170817 measured, what it proved and what is still debated.

• Why Is the Ocean Salty? Where the Salt Comes From and Why the Sea Doesn't Get Saltier

  Oceans · 2026-10-22

  Ocean salt comes mainly from rock weathering carried by rivers and from seafloor vents; it holds near 35 parts per thousand as removal balances supply.