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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
121Science
OpenAI Releases 700 AI Generated Math Papers at Once
There are two ways to crack a problem that has resisted every human attempt. The first is the artisan's route: one mathematician, or a small group, working for years, following intuition down corridors that may dead...
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122Science
Serology Standard Pandemics Forgot
Polina Brangel, a research and development data innovation lead at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), headquartered in Oslo, encountered this problem at its sharpest during the COVID 19...
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123Science
Caregiving Does Not Kill Study Overturns Mortality Warning
For nearly thirty years, the most cited warning about caring for a sick family member carried a number that sounded like a death sentence. Distressed caregivers were 63 percent more likely to die within four years than...
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124Science
Adult Neurogenesis Debate in Human Brain
The most unsettling discoveries in biology are the ones that force us to redraw a line we thought was permanent. For nearly a century, one such line ran through the human brain: the idea that we are born with a fixed...
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125Science
Suns Mass Loss Triggers Early Solar System Instability
The Sun is losing weight. Not dramatically, not visibly to the naked eye, but steadily and this slow reduction in mass may have consequences more violent than previously calculated. A star that sheds mass weakens its...
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126Science
Firefighters Ask Science Answers Faster
A fire crew and a physics laboratory have almost nothing in common until both are told to act within the hour, and neither can wait for the other's paperwork. Two British investigations have asked how research gets done...
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127Science
AI Research Monoculture Threatens Scientific Independence
Science has a quiet rule that most people never hear stated aloud: a finding becomes trustworthy when strangers, working separately, arrive at the same place. The stranger part matters. If the same person checks their...
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128Science
Smart Glasses and the Ambient Surveillance Crisis
The arrest was not the story. The device was. A pair of glasses, indistinguishable from ordinary eyewear, had turned a public space designed for children's play into a recording site. No tripod. No phone held aloft. No...
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129Science
Siberia Lab Infection and Pneumonic Plague Response
Pneumonic plague is the only form of the disease that can travel from one person to another through the air. That single property has shaped every response to it for a century. A 28 year old laboratory worker in the...
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130Science
Feathered Fossil Reveals Two Paths to Dinosaur Flight
A complete fossil of a feathered dinosaur, named Norellraptor barsboldi, has been unearthed with traces of feathers preserved on its forelimbs, its hind limbs, and the tip of its tail. 1] The specimen belongs to a group...
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131Science
Higgsino Dark Matter Hint Meets Neutrino Silence
A single parameter can flip an entire experiment from impossible to plausible. In the case of dark matter, that parameter is mass and more precisely, whether a particle has one mass or two. Dark matter is imperceptibly...
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132Science
Optogenetics Wins Nobel Prize After Two Decade Wait
For years, the annual approach of Nobel week followed a predictable script for those who track neuroscience. A shortlist would form in the minds of researchers. Optogenetics a technique that lets scientists control...
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