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Is breaking old habits easier than we thought?
Forget everything you thought about habits. A new study shatters the myth that they only form through slow, gradual repetition.
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How beluga whales' surprising dating habits strengthen their future.
Beluga whales in Alaska's Bristol Bay hide a secret: a surprisingly flexible mating system. DNA from 600+ whales over 13 years reveals both sexes regularly have offspring with different partners.
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The new desalination method that leaves no toxic waste.
Turning seawater into drinking water, a new solar desalination breakthrough eliminates brine waste and recovers valuable minerals. Billions lack safe drinking water; this could be a game-changer.
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The protein once tied to Alzheimer's now helps memories endure.
Tau organizes and preserves long-term memories. But abnormal tau disrupts memory formation and recall, potentially causing Alzheimer's memory problems, a new study reveals.
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The surprising worker bees who build a queen's perfect home.
Forget generalists: Scientists found a specialized group of worker honeybees uniquely adapted to construct the queen's waxy hive abode.
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Taiwan's waters reveal a new sea slug, the first of its kind identified in 30 years.
Meet Thecacera sesama: a new-to-science, 3mm sea slug with black and yellow spots like scattered sesame seeds. Discovered by a student diver in Taiwan, this tiny creature is making waves!
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The tiny sea slug thriving off Taiwan's coast proves nature still holds bright surprises.
Biologists thought they knew the nudibranch genus *Thecacera* for 200 years. These six shell-less mollusc species, found globally, were always tiny—half an inch to an inch long.
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From energy drain to clean fuel: A platinum catalyst brightens ammonia's future.
Ammonia, a clean fuel, just got a major upgrade. A new catalyst smashes long-standing barriers, unlocking its potential for heavy industry.
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Jupiter's surprising role in seeding Earth with life's building blocks.
NASA scientists just revealed a new theory: Earth may have received life's essential elements differently than we thought, with Jupiter playing a surprising role.
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The universe just revealed a close-up of two supermassive black holes.
Two supermassive black holes, orbiting closely in Markarian 501, could merge within 100 years. Their collision may produce detectable gravitational waves.
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From scarcity fears to clearer waters: Amberjack numbers rebound in the Gulf.
New research reveals surprising insights into greater amberjack. Dr. Sean P. Powers led the multi-year "Greater Amberjack Count" project at the University of South Alabama.
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Could VR training finally make lunar robots truly helpful?
CU Boulder researchers are building lunar exploration robots with digital twin tech and VR. Meet Armstrong, a three-wheeled robot remotely operated via VR for tasks like moving objects.
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Did a supernova just rewrite cosmic physics?
NASA's Fermi telescope just found the magnetic engine powering the universe's brightest supernovae.
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Think you know camouflage? Panama's katydids use it to flirt.
Animals go all out for reproduction: noisy calls, colorful displays, inflated pouches, and tailfeather shakes. Some insects even mimic leaves, not just for camouflage, but to amplify mating calls.
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Did we simply misread the universe's earliest black holes?
JWST spotted overmassive black holes just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, during "Cosmic Noon." Their existence defies current growth models, baffling scientists.
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The genetic clock that tells you how many healthy years remain.
Aging isn't just a number. A massive gene analysis across species uncovered genetic hallmarks of aging, potentially fast-tracking anti-aging treatments.
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Turns out, pigeons find their way home with a little help from their livers.
Birds navigate overcast skies using an incredible secret: iron-rich immune cells in their organs. These cells act as internal compasses, guiding them via Earth's magnetic field.
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Scientists just unlocked the secret to how pigeons find their way home.
Pigeons navigate using iron-rich liver cells that respond to Earth's magnetic field. This discovery may solve a decades-old mystery and reveals a surprising new sensory role for the immune system.
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From fuzzy blobs to crisp stellar nurseries: Euclid's images invite you to map the cosmos.
Astronomers discovered strange "clumpy" galaxies in the mid-20th century. These galaxies, filled with bright blobs, are massive stellar nurseries where stars are born at an explosive rate.
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Forget what you know about crocodiles: This ancient cousin walked like a dinosaur.
Meet the Triassic croc-relative that defied expectations! With a beak, tiny arms, and bipedal stance, it looked more like an ostrich-dinosaur than a crocodile.
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Did dinosaurs always hunt like we imagine?
A giant prehistoric raptor, newly discovered in Patagonia, hunted fish like a massive heron.
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Today's Hope-Up: A Blueberry Comes Back, and Regulations Actually Work
From a rediscovered blueberry relative to proof that 'forever chemical' bans actually work, this week's science shows that sometimes, good things just need a little time — or good policy.
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The blueberry relative missing since 1836 just reappeared in Arunachal.
Lost for 188 years, a mysterious blueberry-like shrub recorded in 1836 by British botanists in Arunachal Pradesh has finally resurfaced.
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A new clue for Long COVID patients: What brain scans reveal about recovery.
Long COVID's biggest clues may lie in the brain's emotion centers, not widespread inflammation, according to new brain scan research.
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Scientists map the Grand Canyon's hidden lifeline, securing its vital springs.
Grand Canyon scientists are exploring hidden caves to trace snowmelt's journey to vital springs. Their discoveries could protect the canyon's water from drought and contamination.
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Cold plasma could keep astronauts clean on Mars.
SpaceX and Blue Origin race to the moon, but what about laundry? Scientists just unveiled a water-free, cold-plasma tech to clean astronaut clothes and habitats for long-duration space missions.
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See-through mice reveal how obesity impacts nerves.
MouseMapper, a new AI, lets scientists map disease changes across the entire body at cellular resolution.
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Cellular aging just revealed a reversible secret.
Mitochondrial aging? Scientists found phosphatidylcholine loss drives it. Restoring it rejuvenates cellular energy.
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Imagine tiny subs exploring the deepest ocean trenches.
A 3-inch titanium vessel just proved it can survive the deep ocean's crushing pressures. Southwest Research Institute's design withstands over 600 atmospheres, perfect for hadal depths beyond 6,000 meters.
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Astronomers just heard two stars whisper their secrets.
Mysterious radio bursts from space just got a new origin story: two stars spiraling together. We've detected ASKAP J1745, a repeating source, finally shedding light on these cosmic puzzles.
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Imagine batteries four times more efficient.
Boost battery and fuel cell efficiency without new catalysts! South Korean researchers found adjusting a catalyst's electrical environment dramatically improves performance, cutting energy loss.
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Scientists just met a 210-million-year-old crocodile cousin.
210 million years ago, a new crocodile relative, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, hunted alongside another croc species in New Mexico. This prehistoric predator just surfaced in newly identified fossils.
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What secret did this 1,600-year-old mummy keep hidden?
An Iliad fragment found in an Egyptian mummy reveals Homer's vast influence on Roman culture, from imperial identity and education to daily life in Roman Egypt.
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Imagine bus-sized octopuses ruling ancient seas.
Bus-sized cephalopods, like the mythical kraken, may have been Late Cretaceous apex predators. These intelligent hunters dominated oceans, challenging mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and sharks for supremacy.
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A T. rex skeleton finds a home.
Own a T-Rex? "Gus," one of the largest, most complete T-Rex skeletons ever, is hitting the auction block. This 12.5-foot specimen, valued at $20-30 million, took 3 years to excavate.
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Could quantum entanglement be easier than we thought?
Particles entwined: quantum entanglement means one particle's properties instantly affect another, no matter the distance. This bizarre phenomenon is usually seen in tiny quantum systems.
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The May Hope Report: The Month We Mapped the Universe and Rewrote the Rules of Life
May saw the James Webb Telescope map the universe's skeleton, biologists rewrite life's instruction manual, and new treatments offer unprecedented hope for cancer patients. Discover the month's biggest breakthroughs.
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A meteor's fiery visit leaves cosmic gifts for New Englanders.
A 75,000 mph space rock, three feet wide, lit up skies from Delaware to Montreal. Witnesses saw its glow or felt its sonic breakup.
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Did Freud's century-old ideas secretly predict modern brain science?
Old psychoanalytic ideas and modern brain science might be describing the same mental processes. Researchers suggest these two fields, once thought separate, are converging.
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How forgotten notebooks cracked a 25-year fossil riddle.
Richard Köhler's field notebooks just unlocked a scientific mystery: a remarkable fossil tarpon from Aotearoa New Zealand, finally cataloged thanks to his recently disclosed notes.
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