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College basketball fans just got their March Madness brackets.
March Madness is here! Brackets drop soon, with Duke eyeing the men's top seed and undefeated UConn leading the women's.
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From ghost to giant: Blue whales return to New England waters.
Soaring above the ocean, the New England Aquarium's aerial team spotted two blue whales back-to-back! A "déjà blue" moment, as they cleverly posted, with the first sighting on Feb 27.
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The tiny toad that stopped a dam just survived a historic flood.
This tiny red-belly toad, found only in a small Brazilian forest, halted a dam project in 2014 that threatened its home. With just over 1,000 critically endangered individuals, it faces climate change and agriculture.
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This tiny office on wheels offers two workspaces and a bed.
Forget tiny houses. This isn't one. It's a mobile, off-grid office packing two workspaces and a sleeping area into a compact frame.
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Breakthrough
Your morning coffee quietly guards your brain, a 43-year study confirms.
Want to boost your brainpower? A 130,000-person study suggests moderate coffee or tea consumption could support long-term cognitive health.
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Game Changer
Mars's 'dry' past just revealed a long-lost ocean beneath its dunes.
Mars stayed habitable longer than thought! Ancient Gale Crater sand dunes, soaked by underground water billions of years ago, left life-preserving minerals.
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The unexpected pill helping early risers beat morning grogginess.
Early-morning shift workers, rejoice! A new clinical trial shows a wake-promoting drug could help you conquer the biological struggle of working when your brain craves sleep.
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Viagra ingredient aids rare brain disease.
A rare childhood disease with no approved treatment may have an unexpected new therapeutic candidate.
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From a few digits to 314 trillion: Pi's endless quest reveals computing's quiet strength.
Pi, the endless constant you know as 3.14, is making headlines again. Its non-repeating digits are a global challenge for engineers: how far can computers calculate? A new record has been set.
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Environment
5 months ago
Discarded wedding cards are bringing sparrows back to Nagpur.
Nagpur's Ashok Tevani, 74, transforms discarded wedding cards and chocolate boxes into vibrant sparrow nests. Each takes 5 hours, a small effort with big heart.
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5 months ago
Rising Impact
Do fast radio bursts always repeat? Astronomers just found one that didn't.
Astronomers found the brightest fast radio burst ever, RBFLOAT, in a nearby galaxy. This flash briefly outshone every other radio source in its galaxy.
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5 months ago
Mars's quiet tug could shape Earth's ice ages.
Think Mars is just a distant red dot? Think again. This planetary neighbor might be a secret puppet master, playing a far bigger role in Earth's climate than anyone imagined.
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5 months ago
The early universe's "primordial soup" wasn't gas, but a flowing liquid.
CERN scientists just unveiled how quarks moved through the early universe's primordial plasma. New evidence from particle collisions reveals their surprising journey.
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New solvent unlocks lithium from untouched brines.
A new solvent-based method promises faster, cheaper lithium extraction from brines, even where current techniques fail. This innovation could unlock critical lithium supplies for soaring global demand.
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Harvard engineers built a chip that reveals light's hidden secrets.
Twist light on a chip! New MEMS-integrated photonic crystals dynamically control light's handedness, opening doors for advanced optical tech.
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5 months ago
A farmer in Yunnan unearths a 2,000-year-old bronze drum.
A Chinese farmer unearthed a priceless bronze drum, revealing Eastern Han Dynasty religious practices and bronze casting. An ordinary day turned extraordinary.
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Science
5 months ago
Curiosity's latest find hints Mars held water far longer than we thought.
Spiderweb-like ridges on Mars? NASA's Curiosity rover is investigating these strange formations, which may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet's watery past.
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5 months ago
Feel Princess Kate's quiet strength reaching out to cancer patients.
Two years since her cancer diagnosis, Princess Kate remains a beacon of support for others battling the disease. She and Prince William recently shared insights into her journey.
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5 months ago
Smart underwear reveals we pass gas twice as often as thought.
Forget what you thought about passing gas. New "Smart Underwear" reveals people may flatulate 32 times daily—far more than believed—by detecting hydrogen from gut microbes.
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5 months ago
Did life's spark ignite in the ocean's depths?
Life's spark may have ignited deep underwater. University of Alberta researchers found a missing piece to how life began, pinpointing a key chemical reaction at mineral-rich hydrothermal vents.
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5 months ago
Rising Impact
Plants reveal a hidden switch for thriving under stress
Plants have a secret weapon against stress! Mitochondria in plant cells can steal oxygen from chloroplasts, a newly discovered mechanism.
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Community
5 months ago
The 'impossible' art of seeing the best in everyone, even strangers.
Someone snaps at you. Is it contempt, or a belief you can do better? The difference is crucial. One demands anger, the other humility. Or maybe they just need a Snickers.
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Health
5 months ago
Emma Heming launches Willis dementia fund.
Emma Heming Willis, Bruce's wife and mother to Mabel and Evelyn, tirelessly advocates for dementia awareness since his FTD diagnosis. She champions not just Bruce, but millions affected.
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5 months ago
Art academy redirects Epstein donations to support trafficking survivors.
New York Academy of Art will donate $65,900 in Jeffrey Epstein-linked funds to human trafficking victim support. This follows new Justice Dept. files revealing deeper ties to the disgraced financier.
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Environment
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From Eisenhower's era to a new grandchick: Wisdom's family flourishes.
Meet the newest member of Wisdom's family! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shared a video of the Laysan albatross hatchling, offspring of the world's oldest known breeding bird.
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5 months ago
Rising Impact
Black holes, once dark, may briefly light up the cosmos.
Gravitational-wave detectors just caught two black holes colliding billions of light-years away. But this time, telescopes saw it too: a gamma-ray burst seconds later, defying expectations.
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5 months ago
The doorbell camera moment that galvanized a community for one DoorDash driver.
Retired couples are back at work, struggling to survive. Many Americans face daily financial battles. But one DoorDash delivery sparked an unexpected joy.
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How a bullet injury sparked
Ramadan often brings people together around food, reflection, and generosity. Across India, the month also becomes a moment when many quietly step forward to help others. Some open classrooms for children who need support. Others carry food packets to hospital entrances just before sunset. In many h...
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Thousands of Sun-like
Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of Sun-like stars billions of years ago. The journey may have carried the solar system away from the galaxy’s crowded center into a calmer region where life could eventually emerge....
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North Sea seabed
Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected....
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5 months ago
Imagine Greenland
Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet. New research suggests they form through thermal convection—slow, swirling motions driven by temperature differences inside the ice. This means the deep ice could be far softer ...
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Welcome the next generation of solar cells: They run on copper and gallium.
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.
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Citizen astronomers now spot asteroids twice as faint, thanks to new telescope data.
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.
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Catch dementia risk 25 years early with one simple blood test.
A simple blood test could identify women at risk of dementia two decades before symptoms appear, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA.
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American e-moto hits 50 mph and 60 miles for under $1,900.
An American startup is challenging everything you thought you knew about budget electric motorcycles—and doing it for under $2,000.
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Can an epidemiologist become a novelist at 50? One Radcliffe lecture just proved it.
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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Education
5 months ago
What a paralyzed man discovered that changed 6,000 disabled children's futures.
A stray bullet in 1997 left Javed Ahmad Tak paralyzed from the waist down—but 25 years later, he's redefining what's possible.
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5 months ago
Taste buds listen to what your mind expects.
Your brain rewires taste itself: expectations can make sugar sweeter and artificial sweeteners more bitter, reshaping flavor before it hits your tongue.
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5 months ago
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Watch citizen scientists unlock the Sun's most volatile regions.
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.
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Breakthrough
MIT Sloan reaches No. 1 as business schools pivot toward AI fluency
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.
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