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The "old button" that rewrites Norway's Viking history.
A Norwegian hobbyist found a "button" near Utstein Abbey. Months later, he realized his dingy discovery was actually a rare, ancient treasure.
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Thailand reveals new Jurassic giant.
Thailand unveils its first formally named mamenchisaurid! A new long-necked dinosaur, Uragasaurus kalasinensis, was discovered in the Phu Kradung Formation.
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The quiet fix that could power tomorrow's tech.
Soft lithium dendrites crack hard ceramics in solid-state batteries, causing short circuits. This breakthrough could lead to safer, longer-lasting batteries for EVs and smartphones.
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New research suggests ancient olive oil had a surprising purpose.
Archaeologists may have overidentified olive oil in ancient pottery. Mediterranean soil chemistry could be the surprising culprit.
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50,000 years later, scientists finally reveal what happened to the "Hobbit" home.
Flores's long drought may have driven Homo floresiensis and its prey from their cave refuge.
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India's mountains reveal a happy-face spider's secret twin.
A newly discovered Himalayan Happy-Face spider, sporting a mysterious smile, closely resembles Hawaii's iconic species. DNA confirms independent evolution, baffling scientists.
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Scientists just mapped the magnetic "drift" of a star before its birth.
Stars ignite from collapsing prestellar cores—cold, dense gas and dust clouds. Radio telescopes now reveal new insights into this cosmic birth, unraveling long-held mysteries.
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Our sense of time might bloom from within the universe itself.
What if time isn't fundamental? Birmingham scientists created a "mini-universe" with 24,000 ultracold atoms, showing time can emerge from changes within a quantum system.
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Life might find a cozy corner on planets of eternal day and night.
Imagine a planet with one side always burning, the other frozen. New research suggests internal heat could circulate, creating stable temperatures and a chance for life.
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That "impossible" quantum behavior now flows naturally in a new material.
A magnetic quantum material naturally exhibits exotic quantum behaviors, previously only seen in complex engineered systems. This breakthrough could revolutionize sensors and quantum devices.
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Understanding movement disorders just got a new path forward.
A key brain signal may have misled researchers studying movement disorders. This discovery could transform how these conditions are understood and treated.
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A new synthetic cell grows and copies itself, hinting at life's core ingredients.
Building life from scratch? SpudCell takes synthetic biology a huge step closer. Researchers assembled non-living components into a system that grows, copies DNA, and divides.
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Scientists just peered into AI's "mind" before it speaks.
Anthropic peered inside LLMs, revealing their inner workings. What they found, using their new J-lens tool, ranges from mundane to unnerving.
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Today's Hope-Up: The Universe Isn't So Scary, After All
From a gentle black hole to farmers winning big for ditching chemicals, today's news reveals a universe more resilient and adaptable than we thought. Plus, a blighted urban inlet becomes a global blueprint for renewal.
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Are birds and fish unlocking secrets for better robots?
Ever wonder how bird flocks and fish schools move in sync? New research reveals their secret: they behave like soft crystals, finally solving a long-standing mystery of collective animal motion.
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A 65-foot paper airplane just flew 200 feet, breaking a world record.
Forget classroom gliders. Italian students just flew a 23-foot paper airplane 200 feet, shattering expectations with the world's largest paper plane.
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The secret to an oak tree's lasting carbon capture.
Oaks keep absorbing CO2 long after growth ends, decoupling photosynthesis from wood production. This discovery could transform forecasts for future forest carbon storage.
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Does our galaxy's black hole actually nurture new stars?
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole isn't the dust-gobbler we thought! New observations reveal it's not consuming nearby dust objects.
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The secret to sharp vision? It's a vitamin A transformation.
Forget everything you knew about fetal vision! Blue cone cells don't migrate; they transform into red and green cones, thanks to vitamin A, completely reshaping our understanding of sharp central vision development.
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How one tiny ocean microbe rewrites a bedrock biology rule
For decades, oceanographer Jon Zehr hunted an invisible organism. His quest began in the '90s, studying nitrogen-fixing bacteria—microbes pulling nitrogen from the air, vital for life.
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Reimagine menopause: Ovaries find a surprising new purpose.
Your ovaries are aging faster than any other organ. Their egg supply dwindles throughout life, leaving just ~1,000 follicles by menopause.
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How a simple twist unlocks new control over quantum light.
Twisting ultra-thin material gave scientists surprising control over quantum light. This brings future quantum technologies closer to reality.
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Berkeley and UCSF join forces to accelerate medical discovery.
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics,...
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The secret to families flourishing for decades longer.
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Imagine a new phase of matter, then read how physicists found it.
Scientists engineered a never-before-seen quantum state, uncovering a new phase of matter with hidden order. This discovery challenges conventional theory.
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The tiny trick that let Hayabusa2 visit asteroid Torifune.
Hayabusa2's main mission is complete. JAXA's asteroid sampler rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018, studying it for 1.5 years and returning a sample to Earth in December 2020.
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The Milky Way's strange glow just got a dark matter update.
Machine learning just reshaped a major Milky Way debate. Scientists used AI to re-examine our galaxy's mysterious gamma-ray glow, uncovering new evidence.
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New Horizons Wakes, Ready for Data
After nearly a year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft awakens from its longest hibernation! It's healthy and ready to beam back science data from the distant Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto.
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The material that "remembers" where to send heat.
Imagine programming heat itself. A new material directs thermal radiation, switches modes, and remembers settings without power, promising smarter sensors and energy tech.
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Imagine new places to look for life on Mars.
Searching for ancient Martian life? ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will analyze chiral organic molecules with MOMA, seeking signs of a warmer, wetter Mars from billions of years ago.
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What 3.1-billion-year-old rocks reveal about Earth's enduring water cycle.
Three-billion-year-old Australian volcanic rocks hold secrets to Earth's origins and life itself. Water likely shaped Earth's interior and drove volcanism over three billion years ago.
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Rethink everything you know about how a queen bee grows.
A queen isn't born, she's built. An entire honeybee colony engineers the perfect royal nursery, feeding larvae royal jelly to create their next monarch.
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A single genetic switch reveals how viruses leap from bats to us.
One tiny genetic change could unleash a bat virus on humanity. Most outbreaks start when animal viruses jump to people, a suspected origin of COVID-19.
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Birds' red blood cells turn metabolic waste into flight fuel.
Birds refuel with lactate! New research shows they use this "waste product" as a cellular fuel, rapidly recovering from impaired oxygen delivery.
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Bio-plastics once lagged, now they outpace traditional polymers.
Tokyo Metropolitan University Professor Kotohiro Nomura's team, collaborating with Osaka Research Institute and Associate Professor Hiroki Takeshita, made a breakthrough.
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After 189 years, researchers confirm the Himalayan pangolin is its own species.
Kathmandu, 1836: Brian Hodgson spotted a creature resembling a pangolin, but with distinct ears and more scales. Was this a new species, or just an anomaly?
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The tiny fossil clue unlocking Earth's earliest life story.
Deep-sea organisms reveal complex animal life, movement, and sexual reproduction began earlier than imagined.
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Turns out, dinosaurs were early gardeners, spreading seeds for fruit-bearing plants.
Blueberry-sized fruits? New fossils show angiosperms produced them millions of years earlier than thought, suggesting dinosaurs helped spread their seeds.
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Where desert sand once hid a city, Byzantine streets now reveal ancient life.
A well-preserved Byzantine-era city, unearthed at Egypt's Dakhla Oasis, offers crucial insights into daily life when Egypt was part of the Byzantine Empire.
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