Top news for December 21, 2008

Type 2 diabetes physically changes the human heart, study finds

In Photos: See 2026’s First Full Supermoon Rise Around The World

The Bat Woman of North London: ‘It’s Like Tuning In to Another World’

2026 begins a golden age of solar eclipses: How to see 3 total solar eclipses and 3 'ring of fire' eclipses in 3 years

A paper suggests that when advanced learners get stuck, they often build new, target-like words using patterns from their native language. For teaching, this means feedback can focus on recurring repair strategies rather than treating each form as an isolated mistake.

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste

Live long and loiter: Why NASA's ESCAPADE probes will wait a year in space before heading to Mars

A 2,000-Year-Old Fingerprint May Solve Mystery of Scandinavia’s Oldest Wooden Boat

This 250-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is Rewriting the Origin of Mammalian Hearing