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Omar Yaghi harvests water from desert air.
A UC Berkeley chemist turned childhood struggles into breakthrough science—extracting clean water from desert air through years of productive failure.
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Earth and moon clear the path as asteroid 2024 YR4 sails safely past in 2032
A potentially hazardous asteroid will narrowly miss both Earth and the moon in 2032.
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X-rays reveal how volcanic rock transforms CO2 into stone that lasts millions of years.
Billions of tons of CO2 must vanish underground by 2100—or climate catastrophe accelerates. Scientists are betting on a radical solution: turning carbon into stone.
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Mars's Hidden Geothermal Past Emerges Through Newly Discovered Mineral
Scientists may have discovered a new mineral on Mars—one that only forms when iron sulfates exceed 100°C, suggesting ancient geothermal activity shaped the planet's geology.
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Astronomers expand the search for life beyond the habitable zone
Liquid water might thrive on the perpetually dark sides of distant planets—upending decades of assumptions about where alien life could hide.
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Take a Look at Uranus' Weird, Lopsided Upper Atmosphere Bespeckled with Auroras
A 3D gas map is revealing secrets about Earth's mysterious atmosphere.
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Lunar rocks finally settle the Moon's magnetic mystery, revealing a pattern scientists missed for decades.
The Moon once had a powerful magnetic field—and scientists just proved it.
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Light-evolved proteins now compute inside living cells, opening doors to biological computing.
Scientists engineered light-activated proteins that switch on, sense signals, and perform computations inside living cells—opening new frontiers in biological engineering.
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Gut bacteria become health allies with CRISPR reprogramming.
Scientists are reprogramming your gut bacteria into medicine factories. UC Berkeley researcher Carlotta Ronda reveals how CRISPR transforms microbes into personalized health boosters.
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Watch what happens when scientists borrow a longevity gene from nature's longest-living mammal.
Scientists transplanted a naked mole rat gene into mice—and the rodents lived longer, healthier lives. The discovery reveals how longevity secrets can jump between species.
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Game Changer
Treating childhood parasites lifts earnings decades later, Kenya study finds
Deworming children transforms lives decades later. A 30-year UC Berkeley study in Kenya reveals treating intestinal parasites boosts adult earnings and improves outcomes for the next generation.
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Solar electrons move 18 femtoseconds faster than expected.
Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic vibrations acting like a "molecular catapult.
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Breakthrough
Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way
Our galaxy isn't the universe's center—it's trapped in a cosmic sheet. New simulations reveal why nearby galaxies flee: we're surrounded by vast empty voids.
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Rising Impact
Tiny Dinosaurs That Conquered the World Started Here, Scientists Discover
Scientists just uncovered a 90-million-year-old fossil that rewrites dinosaur evolution. This tiny Patagonian creature reveals how alvarezsaurs conquered the globe.
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Watch solar panels unlock hydrogen from water using light we've never harnessed before.
Scientists have unlocked a way to harness infrared light for green hydrogen production—solving solar energy's biggest waste problem.
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How the brain's physical structure guides its own wiring into place
Neurons navigate the brain using chemical signals—but a newly discovered force-sensing protein reveals that physical stiffness matters just as much. Tissue rigidity triggers guidance molecules through Piezo1.
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Could cannabis compounds finally unlock the liver's natural healing power?
Two cannabis compounds may unlock your liver's natural detox powers—CBD and CBG show promise against fatty liver disease in groundbreaking research.
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What T. rex's slower growth reveals about identifying the real kings of the dinosaurs
T. rex took 40 years to reach full size—twice as long as previously thought. New analysis of fossilized bone growth rings reveals the iconic predator's surprisingly slow maturation.
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Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive
Scientists just cracked DNA's biggest storage problem: rewriting data. Researchers are transforming synthetic DNA from a one-time storage medium into a rewritable hard drive.
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The hidden math behind that final drip from your bottle
Brown University physicists have cracked the code on how long it takes to empty that stubborn bottle of ketchup—and it all comes down to fluid dynamics math.
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Rising Impact
Chickpeas thrive in lunar soil simulant.
Chickpeas just grew in moon dirt—and NASA is paying attention. Scientists at UT Austin and Texas A&M harvested the first crop from simulated lunar soil, offering a blueprint for feeding astronauts on the Moon.
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Microscopic moss solved Illinois's largest cemetery scandal—and revealed a hidden truth about justice.
Over 100 bodies were secretly moved at Burr Oak Cemetery to resell plots—and a microscopic clump of moss cracked the case wide open.
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Brain builds itself on one elegant rule.
A single cell builds the brain's staggering complexity without relying solely on chemical signals—new research upends a foundational assumption in neuroscience.
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Scientists resurrect a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme to read Earth's earliest life story.
Scientists resurrected a 3.5-billion-year-old enzyme to crack Earth's most ancient mystery: can we actually trust the rocks that claim to hold life's earliest fingerprints?
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Families Find Justice Through a Clump of Moss
Four cemetery workers exhumed over 100 bodies and relocated remains to resell burial plots—a scheme that shocked the Chicago area nearly two decades ago.
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Heat-controlled proteins unlock a new frontier for treating disease
Scientists engineered heat-sensitive switches that precisely control protein activity through tiny temperature changes—a breakthrough modular design from Heidelberg University researchers.
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While chip makers chase bigger, researchers just unlocked why thinner works better.
Atomically thin tungsten disulfide—just one layer of atoms—now captures light with unprecedented strength, revolutionizing nanophotonics and opening new possibilities for quantum technology.
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Moss reveals what grave robbers tried to hide
Ötzi the Iceman wore moss in his boots. So did countless indigenous cultures. Now scientists are rediscovering what humans have always known: moss changes everything.
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What secrets hide in Earth's magnetic shadow—and why do two Berkeley satellites now hold the answers?
NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes are exploring uncharted territory in Earth's magnetic field—a crucial test before their Mars mission later this year.
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Rice-based cheese closes the protein gap that's stumped plant-based makers
Vegan cheese tastes great but lacks protein—until now. University of Arkansas researchers discovered rice could be the missing ingredient for truly nutritious plant-based cheese.
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Could AI just accelerate the solid-state battery revolution by years?
Scientists just cracked how to spot the perfect battery materials in seconds. An AI technique detects liquid-like ion motion, accelerating the hunt for next-generation solid-state batteries.
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Artemis II astronauts bring tortillas to the moon, ditching freeze-dried packets for real meals
A single floating cookie crumb could sabotage an entire space mission. NASA's astronauts face a puzzle: craft meals that maximize nutrition while minimizing the chaos of weightless crumbs.
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European engineers test self-healing spacecraft material that repairs itself in heat
Europe's space race just got a breakthrough: a self-healing material that could finally make reusable rockets viable. Swiss startup CompPair is partnering with the ESA to transform spacecraft design.
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Physicists identify a triplet superconductor that could unlock energy-efficient quantum computing
Scientists may have discovered a triplet superconductor in NbRe—a material that could enable zero-resistance spin transport and revolutionize quantum computing.
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NASA accelerates lunar missions with Artemis expansion.
Read this story in English here. A fin de lograr el objetivo nacional de llevar astronautas estadounidenses a la superficie de la Luna y mantener la superioridad de Estados Unidos en exploración y descubrimientos, la NASA anunció el 27 de febrero que aumentará la frecuencia de sus misiones con el......
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While the headlines panicked about disease, snow monkeys' hot springs quietly rewrote their microbiome
Japanese snow monkeys' hot spring baths do more than warm them—they're reshaping their microbiomes. Regular soaking alters lice patterns and gut bacteria in surprising ways.
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Where plasma once spiraled into chaos, AI now reads the warning signs.
A supercomputer that performs a quintillion calculations per second is now tackling fusion energy—cracking one of science's hardest problems by simulating plasma hotter than the sun.
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What kept life thriving when oxygen was Earth's deadliest poison?
Iron-breathing microbes were life's secret weapon in Earth's poisonous, oxygen-free past. These ancient organisms may have been the key to survival itself.
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Pregnancy rewires brains for motherhood.
Pregnant women's brains physically shrink—and that's actually a sign they're becoming better mothers, new research reveals.
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While oncologists debate next steps, bacteria quietly rewrites the cancer playbook
Scientists have engineered bacteria to infiltrate and destroy tumors from within—a breakthrough approach that could transform cancer treatment.
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