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Darkness unlocks more ordered nanotubes in light-responsive molecular assemblies, study suggests
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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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New study explores potential cross-species spread of chronic wasting disease
A new study found that chronic wasting disease can sometimes spread silently, with infectious prions present even in animals that show no symptoms.
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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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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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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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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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