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Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind
The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive.
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We Just Found Actual Sugar in a Massive Space Cloud
DNA and Glucose 6:30 Insane amounts 7:15 So much stuff in space!
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New environmental performance index highlights sustainability gains, and the challenges ahead
Yet, the new assessment finds that few countries are on track to meet the global goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and that progress has slowed across a range of pollution control and natural resource management challenges.
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Scientists use relay synthesis to create key building blocks of reserve antibiotic to combat resistance
Chemists from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have achieved an important research success in the fight against resistant bacteria.
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NASA's Psyche mission delivers Mars flyby data, time-lapse video
The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars.
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Seasonal gene switch locks fruit flies in winter mode
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Heat-stressed cells use nuclear stress bodies to restart RNA splicing, study finds
If you want to beat the heat of the summer sun, slowing down and doing less is a good strategy.
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Scale can measure university students' confidence in using AI
A study conducted at Koç University School of Nursing examined university students' perceived self-efficacy in using artificial intelligence technologies.
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New Analysis of 3IATLAS Reveals Exciting Origin of the Comet
New Analysis of 3IATLAS Reveals Exciting Origin of the Comet is a notable update worth catching up on.
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Tuberculosis drug discovery gets smarter with AI
When researchers screen potential tuberculosis drugs, they often end up with too many options.
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Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top
We're taught waves only transfer energy, not material, but objects wash ashore all the time.
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This sugar-coated therapy boosted survival against deadly brain cancer by 50% in mice
A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma’s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier.
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The Universe Has Been Expanding Since the Big Bang. Just Not How We Thought.
Check out the Space Time Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Last year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument—DESI—made headlines around the world.
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"Doom Runs on Everything" Just Went Way Too Far
"Doom Runs on Everything" Just Went Way Too Far is a notable update worth catching up on.
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Why Am I Left-Handed?
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.
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Why do these metronomes sync up?
Watch what happens when you start a metronome ticking on an unstable platform, out of sync with two others.
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Podcasts move stocks but fail to beat market, analysis of 25,000 episodes shows
Investment podcasts can prompt investors to take action.
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Climate change boosts soybean production but worsens bean quality
A study published by Food Research International analyzed the triple effect of climate change on soybean quality—increased carbon dioxide (CO₂), high temperatures and drought.
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Jumping gene caught moving between species in first direct observation
Genes are not passed on exclusively from parents to their offspring.
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 215 — Disclosure Day
On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling sci-fi/sci-fact author Dr.
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The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America.
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Do we need a lunar building code to build moon bases safely?
As NASA and China plan sustained lunar infrastructure, engineers are arguing that moon bases need purpose-built building codes for weak gravity, moonquakes and uncertain regolith.
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NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise
A biocontainment facility designed to protect Earth from potentially hazardous biotic contaminants from space should be part of a planned NASA base on the moon, a policy paper maintains.
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Researchers found a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time
Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers.
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Why the human genome’s tangled physicality may confound AI
Quanta examines why DNA may be less like a tidy codebase and more like a physical, three-dimensional regulatory system.
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Seven perfect shuffles randomize a deck of cards, but how many sloppy ones?
A new proof extends the famous seven-shuffle result to messier riffle shuffles that do not require magician-level precision.
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Darkness unlocks more ordered nanotubes in light-responsive molecular assemblies, study suggests
Life on Earth has evolved under an uninterrupted rhythm of day and night.
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LiON: A fluorescent molecule tracks iron and oxygen levels in individual cells
A new fluorescent reporter capable of visualizing biologically active iron and oxygen inside living cells at single-cell resolution has been developed, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo.
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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.
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Forensic Science Is Not As Accurate As You Think
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How Did Life Form Before Cells? New Experimental Evidence
Anton Petrov reviews fresh research on how complex molecules — and life — may have formed before cellular structures existed.
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A Satellite-Boosting Spacecraft Gets Set for an Air-Launched Ride to Orbit
Katalyst Space’s LINK servicing satellite is being readied to chase down NASA’s ageing Swift telescope — which has dropped from 373 to 249 miles — and boost it back to a safe orbit.
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Giant Underground Neutrino Detector Edges Scientists Closer to Solving the Neutrino Puzzle
China’s JUNO observatory published its debut result as a Nature cover, using just 59 days of data to deliver some of the most precise measurements yet of how neutrinos change as they travel.
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Using Photosynthesis to Treat Disease: A 2026 Breakthrough
1:05 Photosynthetic sea slug 2:45 Why animal cells don't accept chloroplasts 3:45 New study inserted chloroplasts into hamster's cells 6:10 So why even do this?
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Ancient DNA Shared With Neanderthals May Help Explain Human Language
A new study finds the roots of language may lie not in special genes but in tiny regulatory “switches” — under 0.1% of the genome — some of which we share with Neanderthals.
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James Webb Reveals Two Completely Different Twilights on Ultra-Hot World WASP-121b
JWST measured the dawn and dusk edges of a scorching gas giant 858 light-years away and found them wildly different in temperature and chemistry — the clearest evidence yet of an asymmetric exoplanet atmosphere.
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Let’s Steal a New Moon: A Thought Experiment on Swapping Earth’s Satellite
Kurzgesagt runs a thought experiment on replacing the Moon with another body — like Io or Titan — and whether ours is already the best fit.
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JWST Evidence That We Found Exotic Black Hole Stars After All
3:55 New object GLIMPSE-17775 is very important 5:05 Results and discoveries - black hole star scenario 6:30 Evidence coming from JWST 8:40 Implications and why this matters 10:18 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare?
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Webb Spots a Hot Jupiter Trailing Twin Gas Tails That Defy Easy Explanation
JWST watched WASP-121b bleed helium into space as two long tails during a near-complete orbit — the longest continuous detection of a planet losing its atmosphere, and a configuration current models can’t explain.
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How a Random System Can Actually Be Predictable
Veritasium uses a Galton board to show how individually random events produce a strikingly predictable pattern in aggregate.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Complete — and May Launch Months Early
NASA’s next flagship observatory has finished assembly under budget and eight months ahead of schedule, with a Falcon Heavy launch now targeted for around September 2026.
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Have We Been Searching for Aliens the Wrong Way?
PBS Space Time argues that advances in astronomy could overhaul how we hunt for extraterrestrial signals after decades of SETI without a confirmed detection.
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SpaceX’s Starship Flight 12 Splashes Down in the Indian Ocean as Planned
SpaceX opened Starship’s 2026 campaign with a clean suborbital test that deployed 20 dummy Starlink satellites before a controlled splashdown.
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Scientists Link a “Time Crystal” to a Real Device in Quantum Breakthrough
Physicists at Aalto University coupled a time crystal to a tiny mechanical oscillator and steered it — turning an exotic, perpetually-moving phase of matter into something controllable.
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Scientists Discover Ancient DNA “Switches” Hidden in Plants for 400 Million Years
Researchers mapped over 2.3 million conserved regulatory “switches” across plant genomes — some more than 400 million years old — building an atlas that could aid future crop breeding.
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