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Light chips process information faster.
A new compact chip precisely manipulates light-based quantum information. This breakthrough advances next-gen photonic and quantum technologies.
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Belugas now see themselves in the mirror.
Chimps, dolphins, elephants, and magpies recognize themselves in mirrors. Now, beluga whales join this elite group, challenging assumptions about animal self-awareness.
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The Great Barrier Reef just welcomed a fuzzy new neighbor.
Meet the hairy ghost pipefish: a "hairy," bright orange or red master of camouflage. Its recent description proves even the Great Barrier Reef hides remarkable secrets, like Solenostomus snuffleupagus.
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Scientists just heard the sun's secret song, revealing its changing rhythms.
The sun's "active biorhythm" is causing increasingly "skin-deep" internal changes, a new study reveals. This trend has accelerated over the last four solar cycles.
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Our earliest ancestors thrived on the seafloor, new research confirms.
Unraveling our ancestors' secrets: Scientists now better understand early human appearance, habitat, and function, revealing how complex life evolved from simpler forms.
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Imagine the birthplace of our solar system's planets.
A hidden "planet factory" beyond Jupiter? Scientists may have found one of the Solar System's most important, churning out new worlds.
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Moon drones scout new lunar poles.
NASA's Artemis III mission in 2027 will scout for a permanent moon base and future landing sites. Four MoonFall drones will survey the lunar South Pole, developed by JPL.
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What makes this solar radio burst so unusually persistent?
The Sun just blasted a bizarre radio signal for 19 straight days, leaving NASA scientists stunned. What did it mean?
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While others look to the future, three Berkeley minds just joined science's 365-year legacy.
Three UC Berkeley experts—a geophysicist, chemist, and computer vision specialist—join the 365-year-old Royal Society as new fellows.
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Today's Hope-Up: The Universe Got Weirder, and the Moon Got a To-Do List
The universe got weirder with new physics hints, while NASA laid out concrete moon base plans. Plus, big health breakthroughs for MS and aging brains. Read today's Hope-Up.
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GLP-1's brain pathway revealed.
Oral GLP-1 drugs curb hedonic eating by targeting a deep-brain reward circuit tied to dopamine. This discovery could expand their use beyond weight loss.
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What makes rock clouds vanish every night on a distant world?
700 light-years away, a giant planet has bizarre daily weather. Mineral clouds appear every morning and vanish by nightfall on WASP-94A b, a cycle discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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While the world watches rockets, students quietly engineer our Moon future.
UVA students captured the grand prize at NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge! They posed for a photo at Kennedy Space Center after their win, a key step for NASA's future Moon Base.
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Wild mice welcome a wheel, turning old theories on hamster joy.
That relentless 2 AM hamster wheel squeak? For decades, scientists thought it was a neurosis of captivity. But in 2014, researcher Johanna Meijer uncovered a surprising truth.
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Fermi reveals supernovae's hidden engine.
NASA's Fermi telescope just caught the first gamma-ray signal from a superluminous supernova—the universe's most extreme explosion. Scientists link this blast to a rapidly spinning magnetar.
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Imagine unlocking Earth's hidden rare earth bounty.
Scientists found a hidden deep-Earth pattern. This discovery could pinpoint where rare earth deposits form, revolutionizing mineral exploration.
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NASA plans moon outposts with landers and buggies, sketching humanity's next home.
NASA just unveiled its moon base plans, awarding hundreds of millions to four U.S. companies. The race to the moon's surface is officially on.
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The Large Hadron Collider finds particles behaving a little differently.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider may have found physics beyond the Standard Model. Scientists observed "penguin decays," incredibly rare particle transformations hinting at new universal forces.
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Brain circuit helps us adapt.
Ever feel your brain stuck on an old task, even after knowing it's wrong? A new study reveals how your brain finally abandons outdated strategies and adapts to new rules.
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Meet the new sea slug that looks like an everything bagel.
Meet Thecacera sesama: a polka-dotted, rice-grain-sized sea slug. This newly identified nudibranch, nicknamed "sesame" by Taiwanese divers, is less than 0.12 inches long and swims off Taiwan's coast.
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Meet the Himalayan cousin of Hawaii's happy-face spider.
Hunting Himalayan forest ants, Devi Priyadarshini and Ashirwad Tripathy stumbled upon something far more exciting in Uttarakhand: an entirely new species.
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Scientists just confirmed the existence of magnetic "hopfions," tiny 3D loops that defy simple magnetism.
Scientists just observed magnetic hopfions for the first time! These 3D magnetic structures feature electron spins forming closed, linked loops, pointing in all directions within a tiny volume.
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Super Jupiters solve space mystery.
Super Jupiters: born in chaos? Webb Telescope data reveals surprising new clues about how these enormous planets form.
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Cosmic rays whisper new secrets about the universe.
Ultraheavy atomic nuclei might explain the highest-energy cosmic rays. These particles could originate from extreme events like neutron-star mergers and collapsing stars.
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Ancient Chinese surgical tools reveal a quiet clue to pain relief's long history.
Ming Dynasty surgical tools reveal traces of a lethal plant, potentially the oldest chemical evidence of a topical anesthetic. Found in physician Xia Quan's tomb, these tools date to 1348-1411 CE.
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What 14th-century surgical tools reveal about Ming China's surprising medicine.
Ancient surgical tools from a 1348–1411 CE Chinese tomb reveal the first evidence of controlled toxic chemical anesthetic use, showcasing sophisticated Ming dynasty medicine.
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Do bees and birds really enjoy a floral happy hour?
Hummingbirds and bees are regularly drinking alcohol! Scientists found fermented nectar in many flowers.
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From forgotten bones, a 43-foot sea giant emerges.
Texas just revealed a mosasaur that rewrites marine predator history. These ancient beasts were bigger, stronger, and possibly more aggressive than we ever imagined.
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Could science soon pause and restart living brain tissue?
Scientists are closer to safely freezing and reviving brain tissue. They've prevented microscopic ice crystal damage, a major breakthrough.
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What a 380-million-year-old fish tells us about walking on land.
A 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish skull reveals surprising clues about life's move from water to land. Scientists used neutron imaging to study *Koharalepis jarviki*, a relative of the first land animals.
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Asteroids delivered life's building blocks to Earth, new evidence reveals.
Ancient asteroid craters: Earth's first oxygen factories? These impact zones may have been safe havens for our planet's earliest oxygen-producing life.
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Watch Hong Kong's first astronaut launch into orbit.
China's Shenzhou-23 mission just launched, sending an astronaut for a record year in orbit! This is a critical step in Beijing's plan to land humans on the moon by 2030.
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Psyche spacecraft slingshots past Mars, journeying to a metal world.
NASA's Psyche spacecraft just slingshotted past Mars! It's headed to a metal world, hoping to unlock secrets about Earth's core and other planets.
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The "T. Rex of the Sea" just got a new king.
Meet Tylosaurus rex: a newly identified mosasaur species, growing up to 43 feet long—the length of a school bus! Scientists previously misclassified these massive predators.
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Earthquakes couldn't topple the Great Pyramid; its own rhythm protects it.
The Great Pyramid of Giza has defied 4,500 years of earthquakes, including Cairo's 1992 5.8 magnitude quake. How has it survived?
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From Earth's steady sun to 16 orbital dawns: How astronauts keep time.
ISS astronauts experience 16 sunrises and sunsets daily. The sun vanishes in 10 seconds, plunging the station into darkness, only to reappear 45 minutes later as if nothing happened.
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Deep below, scientists discover new clues about Earth's rumblings.
Earth's interior hides a secret: seismic waves change speed based on direction. This "seismic anisotropy" is key to understanding subduction zones and stagnant slabs deep within the mantle.
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Forget the fridge: 3,500-year-old Tamil homes reveal a cooler secret.
Imagine your food supply gone. 3,500 years ago on the Deccan plateau, entire communities faced this daily. No refrigeration, just heat, humidity, insects, and one question: how to make the harvest last?
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Our future homes could run on zero-loss power, thanks to new insights.
Nickelate superconductors hide electronic secrets. New measurements are finally revealing clues about their mysterious behavior.
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