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Japanese scientists just shattered a solar cell record! AIST achieved 12.28% efficiency with copper gallium selenide (CuGaSe₂) cells, a promising alternative to CIGS technology.
Citizen scientists just got more asteroids to hunt. The Daily Minor Planet project is doubling its data stream with a second powerful telescope, expanding the search for potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
A simple blood test could identify women at risk of dementia two decades before symptoms appear, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA.
An American startup is challenging everything you thought you knew about budget electric motorcycles—and doing it for under $2,000.
At 50, epidemiologist Janet Rich-Edwards discovered a new calling: novelist. A single Radcliffe lecture sparked "Canticle," her debut that's now earning raves.
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A stray bullet in 1997 left Javed Ahmad Tak paralyzed from the waist down—but 25 years later, he's redefining what's possible.
Your brain rewires taste itself: expectations can make sugar sweeter and artificial sweeteners more bitter, reshaping flavor before it hits your tongue.
Citizen scientists discovered something surprising: the Sun's magnetic hotspots flare far more often than expected, revealing new secrets about our star's violent temperament.
MIT Sloan claims its first-ever No. 1 spot in the Financial Times' 2026 Global MBA Ranking, capitalizing on surging student demand for tech and AI expertise.
A Chinese startup is merging EV tech and smart home innovation with European RV engineering to launch a high-tech caravan featuring autonomous driving capabilities and futuristic design.
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A big sister's first meeting with her newborn brother captured a viral moment that's pure joy—and her reaction is absolutely unforgettable.
Vladimir Nabokov never typed a word. His wife Vera typed every novel—including "Lolita" and "Pale Fire"—before editors saw them. A new exhibit reveals the invisible women behind literary masterworks.
Rare Bronze Age burials reveal a surprising truth: Central European communities transformed through trade and dietary shifts, not mass migration.
Tiny fossil skeletons long thought to be a separate species are actually baby ankylosaurs, revealing how armored dinosaurs grew from hatchlings to giants.
A nanoscale coating could dramatically extend lithium-ion battery life by stopping oxygen release that destroys cells during charging cycles.
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Scientists discovered nearly one new freshwater fish species every day in 2025—309 total, the most in eight years and third-highest on record since 1758.
Doctors now recommend testing for lipoprotein(a), a genetic risk factor for heart disease, as part of routine cholesterol screening.
A tropical katydid transforms from hot pink to green in two weeks—a dramatic color-shift scientists say helps it vanish into rainforest foliage.
Europe just built its first machine to simulate the deadliest radiation threat astronauts face in deep space—galactic cosmic rays that strip away Earth's protective shield.
A Charleston museum has acquired the earliest known photographs of enslaved Americans—15 daguerreotypes from 1850 showing seven identified individuals, including a father-daughter pair.
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Male penguins at Edinburgh Zoo are courting with painted pebbles—created by child patients from a local hospital—instead of searching the ground like their wild cousins.
Researchers are testing an unconventional vaccine delivery method: feeding it directly to bats through saline or infected mosquitoes. The question now is whether it actually works.
Reversing prediabetes slashes heart disease risk dramatically. New research shows remission from this precursor condition offers powerful cardiovascular protection.
The Oscars may spotlight Trump and oil politics, but will anyone dare mention climate change?
Corrine Bailey Rae wept as 140 students at NYC's Special Music School performed her 2006 hit "Put Your Records On"—a moment that proved her music's profound impact across generations.
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Cats, humans, and dogs share the same cancer-causing mutations—a groundbreaking discovery that could transform how we treat tumors across species.
The Romans harnessed Earth's heat 2,000 years ago—yet geothermal energy remains vastly underutilized today despite being clean, continuous, and widely accessible.
Stop eating when you're 80% full—a simple shift that could reshape your relationship with food and add years to your life.
Twelve times since 1891, Minneapolis has plunged below -30°F—cold enough to kill. Now housing advocates are fighting back with Avivo Village, a radical shelter reimagined as home.
Scientists just cracked how your skin senses the lightest touch. Scripps Research discovered a key protein translates physical pressure into brain signals with stunning precision.
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Ancient glass is about to power AI: A South Korean startup is commercializing specialized glass panels that could make data centers dramatically more efficient.
South Africa joins 34 nations pledging to triple nuclear energy by 2050—a climate strategy that signals a major shift in the country's energy future.
Magnetized stellar corpses may be the cosmic engines behind the universe's brightest explosions.
Chinese researchers have cracked a quantum puzzle: engineering quantum dots to reliably produce entangled photon pairs—a breakthrough that could revolutionize quantum computing and cryptography.
StreetLight Data just launched a traffic forecasting tool that lets officials predict how road closures will snarl commutes—before gridlock happens.
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France has returned a sacred talking drum stolen from Côte d'Ivoire over a century ago—marking a landmark moment in colonial artifact restitution.
An experimental antibody called VIR-5500 is breaking through prostate cancer's immune resistance: 82% of patients saw dramatic PSA drops, with some tumors shrinking completely.
Astronomers have mapped the universe's hidden cosmic web—revealing galaxies and gas invisible to conventional telescopes by detecting hydrogen light from the early universe.
Rubisco—the enzyme that feeds you and produces the oxygen you breathe—is so inefficient it's a miracle life exists at all.
A thumbnail-sized wireless implant just restored vision to 81% of patients with incurable blindness—offering hope to 5 million people worldwide who've lost the ability to read and recognize faces.