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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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Watch how a 90-million-year-old skeleton unlocks the story of Earth's smallest dinosaurs.
Scientists unearthed a 90-million-year-old fossil that bridges the evolutionary gap between dinosaurs and birds. This tiny, bird-like creature rewrites our understanding of prehistoric life.
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Life bloomed where extinction reigned: plankton thrived within millennia of the asteroid impact.
Life bounced back faster than anyone thought. New plankton species emerged just 2,000 years after the dinosaur-killing asteroid—not thousands of years later.
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Did our ancestors master geometry 60,000 years before we thought possible?
Geometric patterns etched onto ancient ostrich eggshells in southern Africa suggest our ancestors possessed sophisticated mathematical thinking thousands of years ago.
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Where darkness once held secrets, Rubin Observatory reveals the universe's hidden stories.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory just unleashed its first cosmic discoveries—and thousands more arrive weekly. Supernovae, variable stars, asteroids: a decade-long survey is about to transform astronomy.
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Unified brain networks unlock what intelligence truly is.
Your brain's separate networks somehow feel unified—but neuroscientists just discovered why: intelligence isn't housed in one "smart" region.
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Construction unearths 2,500-year-old settlement in northern Germany
A 2,500-year-old Iron Age settlement halted a German fire station's construction—and archaeologists couldn't be happier. Local firefighters? Less thrilled.
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Two Observatories, One Cosmic Eye: Hubble and Euclid View Cat’s Eye Nebula - NASA Science
Hubble and Euclid captured the Cat's Eye Nebula in unprecedented detail, revealing cosmic structures invisible to either telescope alone.
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Fungi unlock metals from space rocks—a glimpse at mining beyond Earth
Fungi can extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity—opening a new frontier for asteroid mining powered by microbes, not machines.
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What made galaxies grow tentacles 8.5 billion years ago
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds through a dense galaxy cluster. The galaxy appears as it was 8.5 billion years ago, revealing that ...
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Could life actually survive being blasted between planets?
Scientists blasted the toughest bacterium on Earth with asteroid-impact pressures—and it survived. Deinococcus radiodurans could be Mars's first stowaway.
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Thousands waiting for liver transplants could get a second chance with injectable cell therapy
MIT engineers just created injectable "mini livers" that could save thousands waiting for transplants—a breakthrough for patients too sick for surgery.
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Fusion diagnostics get a closer look as DOE charts path to commercial power plants
Fusion's future hinges on one critical challenge: seeing inside a plasma inferno. Scientists need advanced diagnostic tools to measure the extreme conditions that make or break fusion reactions.
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A shrew-sized creature in Colorado just rewrote where your earliest ancestors lived.
Tooth-sized fossils just rewrote primate history. Scientists discovered the earliest known primate ancestor farther south than ever before—in Colorado, not Montana.
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Watch this robot leap 188 times on nothing but light and material physics.
A robot smaller than an insect just jumped 188 times—powered by nothing but light and physics, no electronics required.
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While historians debated Homs's past, a hidden inscription revealed its true layers of worship.
A Greek inscription reveals the Great Mosque of Homs sits atop a Roman Temple of the Sun, exposing centuries of overlapping pagan, Christian, and Islamic worship in ancient Emesa.
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While everyone watched Artemis 3, NASA quietly reset the lunar timeline to something more achievable.
Artemis 4 will attempt humanity's first lunar landing in years. NASA has four missions planned within the next three years.
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The flower-shaped device that finally listens to what mini brains are saying.
Scientists wrapped a flower-shaped device around pea-sized brain organoids to capture nearly all their electrical chatter—revealing how mini brains could unlock autism and schizophrenia secrets.
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Lab-grown brain cells master adaptive learning by playing Doom
Human brain cells in a lab just played Doom—and won. Researchers at Cortical Labs have created a biocomputer that's learning faster than expected, hinting at a revolution in hybrid organic technology.
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Solid-state batteries just ditched the pressure problem—and gained liquid speed
Chinese researchers created a flexible solid electrolyte that mimics liquid performance without external pressure—potentially solving the speed-versus-stability crisis in next-generation batteries.
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What if that puzzling stone artifact was Romans playing strategy games 2,000 years ago?
Ancient Romans played strategy games like chess and backgammon—and historians are still uncovering their complete catalog of tabletop pastimes.
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Watch trees glow invisible light during storms—scientists finally caught it on camera.
Leaves generate electrical discharges when weather strikes. Scientists discovered weak currents spark in the air surrounding foliage during storms.
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Astronomers spot a galaxy hiding in plain sight—99% dark matter, just four star clusters give it away
Astronomers discovered a nearly invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, revealed only by four glowing star clusters embedded within the Perseus cluster.
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While astronomers debated where life begins, Jupiter's moons were already assembling the chemistry for it.
Jupiter's moons may have harbored the chemical building blocks for life from their very formation—a discovery that reshapes our search for extraterrestrial biology.
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Twisting ultrathin crystals unlocks magnetic patterns engineers can finally harness for low-power devices
Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers spawns giant skyrmion-like patterns hundreds of nanometers wide—far larger than predicted—reshaping how we engineer magnetic electronics.
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