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Daily briefing: People with cancer lived longer if they'd had a COVID-19 vaccine

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines systemically enhance immune responses and can increase the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapies.
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1 day ago

Ancient graffiti and brain complexities: Books in brief

Scientific and historical research shows complex brain function, solved navigational challenges via incentives and technology, and an undeciphered Indus script with possible Dravidian links.
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1 day ago

How to grow crystals when and where you want them

Lasers can grow crystals on demand by guiding light with beam-splitter cubes to control crystal formation.
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13 hours ago

Science Must Decentralize

In the digital age, the collaborative and often community-governed effort of scholarly research has gone global and unlocked unprecedented potential to improve our understanding and quality of life. That is, if we let it. Publishers continue to monopolize access to life-saving research and increase the burden on researchers through article processing charges and a pyramid of volunteer labor . This exploitation makes a mockery of open inquiry and the denial of access as a serious human rights issue .
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New Research Suggests We Can Train Years Off Our Brains

Specific rigorous speed-training online exercises upregulate acetylcholine production, reversing a decade-long decline in 10 weeks and enhancing cognition; casual games show no benefit.
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1 day ago

Audio long read: How to get the best night's sleep - what the science says

Understanding the body's network of biological clocks, not quick hacks or gadgets, offers the most promising path to reliably improving sleep and tailoring treatments.
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15 hours ago

How NASA's Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth

Two astronauts conduct scientific work on a silent, cratered lunar surface while Apollo-era imagery and recent deaths have left only five living moonwalkers.
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21 hours ago

Is Earth heading for an 'alien attack' or is this theory 'nonsense on stilts'? - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Interstellar object 3I/Atlas travels at 130,000 mph and may be an extraterrestrial spacecraft capable of approaching or threatening Earth imminently.
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18 hours ago

Bats eat the birds they pluck from the sky while on the wing

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn't know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite a bit heavier, faster, and stronger than the insects bats usually dine on. To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light sensors to Nyctalus Iasiopterus, the largest bats in Europe. What they found was jaw-droppingly brutal.
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20 hours ago

Astronomer Suspects Mysterious Object Is Up to No Good While It's Hidden Behind the Sun: "If You Want to Take a Vacation, Take It Before Then"

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will reach perihelion Oct 29; evidence favors a CO2-ice comet, though an artificial mothership hypothesis persists due to anomalies.
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17 hours ago

Your gut microbes might be turning fiber into extra calories

Gut methane-producing microbes increase calorie extraction from high-fiber foods, influencing individual energy harvest and informing personalized nutrition strategies.
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23 hours ago

Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA's Moon rocket fully stacked

Two companies, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and China's LandSpace, could join SpaceX's exclusive club as soon as next month. (Bezos might claim he's already part of the club, but there's a distinction to be made.) Each company is in the final stages of launch preparations-Blue Origin for its second New Glenn rocket, and LandSpace for the debut flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket.
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15 hours ago

Astronomers Have Discovered Earth's Latest Quasi-Lunar Moon

After analyzing its trajectory, scientists concluded that the object maintains a 1:1 resonance with the Earth. In other words, it orbits the sun at the same time as our planet. From a distant perspective, this synchronicity makes it look as if the Earth is accompanied by a tiny asteroid-as if it had an additional moon. Unlike the moon, quasi-lunar moons are not gravitationally bound to the Earth. They are ephemeral companions, in cosmological terms, following their own path around the sun. Only at certain times do they come close enough to appear bound.
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23 hours ago

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

If you watch sci-fi movies, you'd think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly more complicated car (or a Winnebago in Spaceballs). And George Lucas gave us those galactic battles with pilots who look like they're flying fighter jets on Earth. Well, bad news: Space is really, really different. In particular, moving a vehicle in orbit around Earth is way more complicated than that. The maneuvers you might make with a plane sometimes have the opposite effect in orbit.
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23 hours ago

The Real Reason Airplane Window Shades Must Be Up at Takeoff and Landing, According to Pilots

Passengers must raise window shades for takeoff and landing so cabin crew and passengers can see outside, enhancing situational awareness and evacuation readiness.
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15 hours ago

NASA's Moon Mission Is a Mess, and It May Cost Us the New Space Race

The first Trump administration unveiled its Artemis lunar landing program in 2017, aiming for astronaut boots on the moon in 2024 and an eventual Artemis Base Camp a decade later. These would not be Apollo-style flags-and-footprints sorties but rather longer-duration missions meant to support the construction of an eventual Artemis Base Camp lunar outpost; as such, they require bigger rockets and spacecraftand more complex hardware for surface operations.
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18 hours ago

Ancient Vulture Nests Reveal 600 Years of Human HistoryIncluding 25 Shoes

Bearded vultures collect and deposit human artifacts in remote cliff caves, preserving over 600 years of historically valuable items including shoes and leather fragments.
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1 day ago

Ask Ethan: Why couldn't the Universe have expanded forever?

A homogeneous Universe filled with energy cannot remain static; it must expand or contract.
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Can You Be Allergic to Marijuana?

Cannabis smoke and plant proteins can cause respiratory and skin allergic reactions; recognized allergens (e.g., Can s 3) cause cross-reactivity with foods and pollens.
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3 days ago

Daily briefing: Stinkbugs nurture fungi in a newly discovered organ

Female Japanese dinidorid stinkbugs nourish symbiotic fungi in a novel organ and rub the fungi onto their eggs to protect them from parasitic wasps.
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Which Infection Is Also Known as "Kissing Bug" Disease?

Weekday themed quizzes present unique daily questions with score comparisons and a Slate Plus leaderboard for competitive sharing and friend challenges.
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Dinosaurs were thriving in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it's only one piece of the global picture, independent experts say. Dinosaurs were quite diverse and now we know there were quite distinct communities roaming around before being abruptly wiped out, said Daniel Peppe, a study co-author and paleontologist at Baylor University.
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1 day ago

Generation Lab raises $11 million, becoming Accel's first longevity bet | Fortune

Generation Lab aims to add about 20 healthy years by offering personalized epigenetic testing and interventions to extend active, independent, high-quality lifespan.
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1 day ago

The Hidden Orchestra: How Ancient Systems Underlie Speech

Evolution rarely invents entirely new solutions. Instead, it tinkers with existing systems, repurposing and refining them for new functions. Before our ancestors developed language, they already possessed sophisticated systems for controlling movement-reaching for objects, grasping tools, navigating space. These systems shared a common architecture: a motor planning component in the frontal lobes, a sensory target component in the temporal and parietal lobes, and a translation system connecting the two.
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2 days ago

How dogs can help us learn about human ageing

Dog owners often treat their pets like miniature humans and now scientists are studying canines in the same way to discover more about the mystery of ageing in people. They suspect a clue to the varying rates at which both dogs and humans age may lie in the kidneys and the gut. In 2020, researchers for the Dog Aging Project in the United States began enrolling dogs in a long-term study of ageing, ending up with about 50,000 canines volunteered by their owners.
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1 day ago

Static Electricity Helps Parasitic Nematodes Leap onto Insects

At first glance, it's a wonder that parasitic nematodes exist at all. To reproduce, these minuscule creaturesroughly the size of a pinpointmust leap 25 times their body length and land on a flying insect as it zooms overhead. Given that wind, gravity and air resistance all stand in the way of a bull's-eye, the worms' chances seem poor. But new research shows there's another force working to their advantage: static electricity.
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2 days ago

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

The Scholar h-index (S h-index) weights citations by author position—last 100%, first 90%, second 50%, others 25% (≤6 authors) or 10% (≥7)—to better reflect contribution.
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Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

New argon dates show Naashoibito's Alamo Wash dinosaur ecosystem was contemporary with Hell Creek, revealing distinct northern and southern dinosaur bioprovinces until the mass extinction.
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2 days ago

Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists

The nature of gravity - and whether it can be reconciled with quantum mechanics - is one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Most researchers think that at a fundamental level, all phenomena follow the principles of quantum physics, but those principles do not seem to be compatible with the accepted theory of gravity. For years, researchers have been proposing experiments to show whether gravity could produce a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement.
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What really killed the dinosaurs? These rocks may unlock the answer.

Herds of hadrosaurs with huge head crests and duck bills roamed ancient New Mexico for plants to eat, making sure not to end up underfoot a long-necked titanosaur or, worse, in the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus rex. None of them knew that a seven-mile-long space rock hurtling toward Earth was about to kill them all. The asteroid impact triggered one of the planet's worst mass-extinction events, wiping out all dinosaurs but birds.
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Dinosaurs were thriving until asteroid struck, research suggests

Dinosaurs would not have become extinct had it not been for a catastrophic asteroid strike, researchers have said, challenging the idea the animals were already in decline. About 66m years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, a huge space rock crashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that wiped out all dinosaurs except birds. However, some experts have argued the dinosaurs were already in decline.
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How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next

Doom was ported to and successfully run on ESA's OPS-SAT satellite, demonstrating open-source software adaptability and the satellite's experimental onboard computing capabilities.
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2 days ago

How AI can produce detailed storm surge forecasts faster and save lives

Accurate, high-resolution storm surge forecasting is essential to protect coastal communities but physics-based models can be computationally slow at neighborhood scales.
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The Immortalists by Aleks Krotoski review the downsides of cheating death

Wealthy tech-led life-extension efforts use unproven plasma therapies and rhetoric that may stigmatise ageing while exploiting socioeconomic vulnerability.
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1 day ago

Gone in 60 milliseconds: dramatic slow-motion snake bites reveal clues about how fangs and venom kill prey

Vipers unfold long fangs rapidly; elapids strike repeatedly with short erect fangs; colubrids have rear-positioned fangs.
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1 day ago

Leading conservationists just decided that genetically engineering wild animals is OK sometimes. They're right | Helen Pilcher

Do you think we should genetically modify wildlife? What if we could make seabirds resistant to the flu that has been exterminating them en masse, just by tweaking their DNA a smidgen? Or make fish that can shrug off pollution, or coral that can survive warming waters? Engineer in the sorts of change that could occur naturally, given enough time, if only the wildlife would stop dying already. Thanks to newly emerging methods, such as Crispr, these feats are within reach.
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10x Genomics and Prognosys Biosciences Allege Illumina Infringed Four Spatial Transcriptomics Patents

On October 21, 10x Genomics, Inc. and Prognosys Biosciences, Inc. filed a complaint for patent infringement against Illumina, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, asserting that Illumina's spatial technology products infringed on patents covering technology for spatial transcriptomics, which allows researchers to study gene activity within a cell's tissue. U.S. Patent Nos. 11,008,607, 11,549,138, 12,234,505, and 12,297,487 are owned by Prognosys Biosciences and have significant applications in cancer research, neuroscience and immunology.
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Dinosaur Mummies Are Clay Molds, Not Soft-Tissue Fossils, New Study Reveals

Fossilized dinosaur 'mummies' are actually clay molds formed by microbial biofilms during decay, not preserved flesh or skin.
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1 day ago

Seasonally appropriate 1-in-30 million orange-and-black lobster caught by Gloucester fisherman

One day, [Tufts] sent me a message with a picture of this beautiful calico and asked if we had room in our tanks for another beautiful, rare lobster,
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Why your best ideas come after your worst

This article very nearly didn't exist. For several weeks, it made a conspicuous effort not to. It began, or rather did not begin, when I was invited to pitch a second article for Big Think about virtually any topic in neuroscience. Triumph. I had freedom and unlimited time. What could be easier? A lot, it turns out. Weeks went by, and I did not write. My inbox began to fill with cheerful nudges from Stephen, my editor. Still keen to write something?
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2 days ago

5 undeniable, truthful facts about dark matter

Multiple independent astronomical and cosmological observations strongly require nonbaryonic dark matter; modified gravity fails to account for the full range of empirical evidence.
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The first people to set foot in Australia were fossil hunters

A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an extinct kangaroo and realized that instead of evidence of butchery, cut marks on the bone reveal an ancient attempt at fossil collecting. That leaves Australia with little evidence of First Peoples hunting or butchering the continent's extinct megafauna-and reopens the question of whether humans were responsible for the die-off of that continent's giant Ice Age
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Stunning Vintage Covers of 'La Science et Vie Magazine', France's Vision of Modern Progress

Science et Vie is a century-old French monthly that explains scientific, medical, and technological advances accessibly while shaping public scientific discourse.
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The Bay Area Science Festival 2025 Is This Weekend. Here's What to Expect | KQED

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A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate spin helix - Nature

Metallic p-wave magnetism realized: conduction electrons exhibit odd-parity spin-split bands from coupling to a coplanar antiferromagnetic spin helix, producing anisotropic conductivity and anomalous Hall effect.
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A guide to the Nature Index

Nature Index records institutional and national contributions to high-quality natural- and health-science articles using Count and fractional Share metrics to measure output and collaboration.
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Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive

Hunger and pregnancy hormones converge in specific neurons to trigger pup-directed aggression in virgin female mice.
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3 days ago

We need more than good science to fight infectious disease

Immunology is at a pivotal moment. The huge successes in public health brought about by vaccines are now facing erosion, as anti-vaccination sentiments spread around the world and the United States cuts funding to domestic and overseas infectious-disease research. Measles, for example, was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000 by the World Health Organization, but in July this year, there were more reported cases than in any year since 1992.
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3 days ago

Google AI aims to make best-in-class scientific software even better

Google developed an AI-driven evolutionary workflow that iteratively improves scientific software, producing new programs that in some tasks outperform state-of-the-art tools.
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3 days ago

SJSU Alumni Explore the Mysteries of the Brain

The principles of examining creativity through the lens of neuroscience reveal a lot of the same principles that exist with AI, in a sort of a stochastic sense, And it establishes a different vehicle to look at the mechanism of creativity-through a mechanistic lens, through the lens of behavioral neurology-and I think if someone who was brilliant with AI were to come and look at this, they would see a lot of similarities and it would be, I think, very useful data.
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3 days ago

Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds

Rigorous daily cognitive training for 10 weeks increased acetylcholine by 2.3% in an attention-memory brain region, reversing about a decade of normal age-related decline.
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2 days ago

Zoo Lunch Mishap Reveals Lizards' Hidden Fire Detector

Australian sleepy lizards detect smoke by smell and flee, but do not respond to wildfire sounds or water vapor, indicating an innate adaptation.
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2 days ago

The Blue Marble Is Losing Its Glow

Earth's overall albedo has declined for decades, with the Northern Hemisphere darkening more than the Southern, risking enhanced regional warming and altered weather patterns.
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3 days ago

Pancreatic cancer relies on opposing signalling pathways to drive its cellular diversity

Epithelial–mesenchymal communication in pancreatic cancer drives tumour heterogeneity and plasticity, promoting malignant progression through specific molecular signalling.
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3 days ago

How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers

A paper mill fabricated authors and reviewers to publish fake mathematics papers, including a non-existent 'Beatriz Ychussie', manipulating peer review.
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2 days ago

Leak suggest 31/Atlas is no comet and has an 'engine like sound' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The whistleblower said that other space agency analysts are being kept in the dark, the person said the 31/Atlas is not a comet and it has an "engine like sound" and warned that "something big is about to happen." Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has previously said that 31/Atlas is emitting metallic emissions which has a strange glow, whilst the whistleblower has claimed a cover-up is ongoing between ESA and NASA.
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3 days ago

Tickets Alert: Tours of UCL's north London telescope observatory

UCL Observatory in north London operates research telescopes and runs free public winter tours offering viewing through instruments like the 8″ Fry Telescope.
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Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage

Once the card was recovered, an exact binary image of it was made so investigators could examine its contents. They discovered, however, that the data was encrypted, and would require encryption keys stored in the camera's CPU, which was broken. Authorities contacted the manufacturers of the different hardware parts used in the camera, and with their help, were able to use surrogate parts to extract the data.
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2 days ago

Dopamine Myths: What Huberman Gets Wrong About Motivation

Let me start by saying I genuinely admire Andrew Huberman. His mission to popularize neuroscience to improve lives is as useful as water in the desert, and his actionable strategies have helped countless people, including me. I even use his sponsor recommendations (yes, that fancy mattress works). But expertise in ophthalmology and neuroscience doesn't automatically translate to expertise in motivation science, and that is why things get messy.
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2 days ago

Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer

A 'quantum echoes' algorithm demonstrates quantum advantage; classical supercomputer simulation requires about 13,000 times longer to emulate the quantum computation.
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3 days ago

Classical theories of gravity produce entanglement - Nature

Observation of entanglement between massive objects would imply gravity transmits quantum information and cannot be described by local classical gravitational theories.
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2 days ago

Chinese Rocket Falls to Earth, Explodes in Epic Fireball

A Long March 2 booster crashed uncontrolled and exploded on impact, raising international safety concerns amid China's secretive lunar ambitions and US–China space competition.
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AWS custom AI silicon helped Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%

Metagenomi used AWS Inferentia 2 accelerators to run protein language models, accelerating CRISPR enzyme discovery while reducing compute costs by 56% versus Nvidia GPUs.
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3 days ago

NASA's Boss Just Shook Up the Agency's Plans to Land on the Moon

Duffy also cites "maybe others" getting involved. This refers to a third option. In recent weeks, officials from traditional space companies have been telling Duffy and the chief of staff at the Department of Transportation, Pete Meachum, that they can build an Apollo Lunar Module-like lander within 30 months. Amit Kshatriya, NASA's associate administrator, favors this government-led approach, sources said.
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3 days ago

We still don't know how "hot" the hot Big Bang was

This tremendously successful theory gave us everything from gravitational waves to black holes based on one profound insight: that the fabric of spacetime itself would evolve, curve, and even ripple based on the properties and behavior of the matter and energy within it. When we applied Einstein's equations to the entire Universe as a whole, along with the idea that the Universe was filled nearly uniformly with matter and energy on the largest scales, we wound up with an expanding Universe.
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3 days ago

Enteropathogenic bacteria evade ROCK-driven epithelial cell extrusion - Nature

The human protease caspase-4 and its mouse orthologue caspase-11 defend against gram-negative bacteria3,4. Activated by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the cytoplasm5,6,7, caspase-4 and caspase-11 cleave and activate the pore-forming protein gasdermin D (GSDMD) to cause a lytic form of cell death called pyroptosis8,9. Eliminating infected cells in this manner denies microorganisms their replicative niche. Other bacterial components, including toxins and DNA, are sensed by intracellular inflammasome complexes that activate caspase-1, which also induces pyroptosis by cleaving GSDMD1.
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The most violent attack ever documented': Five female bonobos kill a male, challenging beliefs about the species' peaceful nature

A group of female bonobos brutally attacked an adult male, inflicting severe, potentially fatal injuries that reveal violent and sexual dynamics within bonobo society.
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2 days ago

The M2's Century of High Caliber Service With the Green Berets

The Browning M2 .50-caliber machine gun remains a primary, versatile, and effective heavy weapon for U.S. Green Berets across modern battlefields.
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2 days ago

Scientists create pigs resistant to classical swine fever

Gene-edited pigs with DNAJC14 edits remained healthy when exposed to classical swine fever, while control pigs developed disease.
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3 days ago

Optimization by decoded quantum interferometry - Nature

Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) uses quantum Fourier transforms to concentrate amplitude on high-value solutions, enabling constructive interference to sample promising candidates.
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3 days ago

A new autonomous fighter jet just broke cover. It's powered by the same AI brain that flew an F-16 through a dogfight.

The AI that powered an F-16 in a dogfight against a manned aircraft is powering a new, fully autonomous fighter jet, its maker said as it unveiled the new aircraft design. US defense tech unicorn Shield AI unveiled its new X-BAT fighter aircraft on Wednesday. The company says that it can operate without human pilots and without runways. It said it can take off from islands and ships - not just warships, but also container ships.
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2 days ago

The High-Caliber Haskins RIfle That Gives Rangers Extreme Reach

The Haskins Rifle's .50 BMG option extended Ranger engagement range and the weapons list ranks Ranger arms by bullet diameter, not overall cartridge performance.
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3 days ago

China's CR450 bullet train hits 453 km/h in speed trials

China's CR450 train hit 453 km/h during pre-service trials, surpassing its CR400 predecessor's 420 km/h and outpacing Deutsche Bahn's 405 km/h test record. Despite the impressive figure - particularly for British rail travelers eyeing autumn leaves nervously - operational speed will be 400 km/h, and 600,000 km of testing remains before passenger service begins. State-backed mouthpiece Science and Technology Daily (STD) called the CR450 "the world's fastest" electric multiple unit (EMU).
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4 days ago

Stinkbug 'ear' actually hosts parasite-fighting fungi

Female stinkbugs cultivate fungi on a hindleg organ and use those microorganisms to protect their eggs from parasitoid wasps.
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3 days ago

Quantum Untangled? More Like art in a tangle at the Science Gallery

Artists translate quantum concepts into interactive, visually striking installations—spinning sculptures, a reactive light wall, and paired rooms linking subtle alternate universes.
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How Hard Is It to Dim the Sun?

Stratospheric aerosol injection faces severe engineering, supply-chain, and geopolitical constraints that could make deployment riskier, costlier, and produce unpredictable regional climate harms.
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4 days ago

how can blind patients see and read again? scientists use eye implant with tiny solar cells

A photovoltaic retinal implant paired with external glasses can restore central vision in geographic atrophy by converting projected infrared light into retinal stimulation.
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Cake to the rescue: how these PhD students are cooking up a sense of community

When the National Astronomy Meeting, organized by the UK Royal Astronomical Society, descended on Durham University in July, Martina Veresvarska saw the gathering as an opportunity not just to talk shop, but also to indulge her baking hobby. The annual conference, usually held in the British Isles, is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Veresvarska is a PhD candidate at the UK university's Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and a co-founder of the astronomy department's charity bake-sale organization, Cakes for Good.
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3 days ago

Sperm From Older Men Have More Genetic Mutations

Aging male sperm accumulates mutations and undergoes positive selection, increasing the proportion of sperm carrying potentially pathogenic variants and elevating offspring disease risk.
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Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note!

Black garden ants reshape nest architecture and alter social behavior to socially distance and slow fungal pathogen transmission.
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Scientists Investigate Evidence of "Burrowing" Under Surface of Mars

CO2 ice blocks can sublimate and burrow into Martian dunes, blasting sand with pressurized gas and carving the gullies observed on dune surfaces.
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3 days ago

Brit boffins claim breakthrough in stabilizing fusion plasma

Applying a 3D resonant magnetic perturbation to a spherical tokamak plasma fully suppressed edge localized modes (ELMs) in MAST Upgrade, stabilizing the plasma for the first time.
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3 days ago

Up 211% in 2025, is QuantumScape a Solid Buy Before Tomorrow's Earnings?

QuantumScape's solid-state battery breakthrough could reduce charging times, extend battery life, and enable scaled EV adoption despite demand, infrastructure, and supply chain challenges.
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4 days ago

Scientists just used mice and lasers to explain this iconic optical illusion

Lasers and rodent experiments revealed neural mechanisms behind the Kanizsa square optical illusion.
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Researchers Solved a Starfish Mystery - But Threats Continue

A Vibrio pectenicida bacterial strain caused sea star wasting disease, killing billions of starfish and enabling targeted conservation efforts.
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