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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
145Science
Saturns Ten Sided Storm and October Sky Events
For decades, the hexagon at Saturn's north pole has been counted among the strangest known shapes in the solar system. A hexagon shaped jet stream that spans nearly 20,000 miles across Saturn's north pole, locked into...
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146Science
Saturns South Pole Reveals Ten Sided Atmospheric Wave
The south pole of Saturn now carries a ten sided atmospheric wave. Nobody predicted it. Astronomers had spent decades studying the north pole, where a six sided jet stream spans nearly 20,000 miles across a hexagon, a...
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147Science
Fourth Dimension Untangles Knots Spheres Knot
A knot in a shoelace and a knot in four dimensional space are the same object in name only. Add a fourth spatial direction, a direction perpendicular to length, width, and height all at once, and the lock opens. Every...
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148Science
The Exposome Measuring Lifes Long Exposure
The year is 2050. A patient arrives for a routine medical visit and gives blood and urine, her postal code, and a short description of her lifestyle and habits. The clinic runs the samples through instruments that...
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149Science
AbbVie vs CRISPR Therapeutics Pharma Comparison
AbbVie vs CRISPR Therapeutics: Stability Against the Genomic Frontier. One company sells medicines that already exist, manufactured at scale and shipped through a distribution network that spans multiple continents. The...
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150Science
Watermarking AI Designed Proteins to Flag Threats
For years, the working assumption in biosecurity was simple and, in retrospect, too simple: if you can recognize a dangerous protein, you can stop it. Recognition came from similarity. A DNA sequence looked threatening...
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151Science
Mars Rover Finds Mysterious Disc Shapes in Bedrock
The bedrock blocks were still there, and their dimensions still matched earlier workspaces, but their texture had changed. That is what happened at the start of a recent week on Mars, when Curiosity's cameras turned...
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152Science
OpenAI Foundation Bets 25 Billion on Data to Fight Disease
The OpenAI Foundation approaches disease from two directions at once. One path is direct: pour money into specific illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease, and hope that concentrated funding accelerates answers. The...
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153Science
Butterfly Stripes Create Motion Illusion to Evade Predators
A striped barber's pole rotates around its own axis, yet the eye swears the stripes climb upward. Nothing is moving up. The pole only spins. This is one of the oldest tricks the human visual system plays on itself, and...
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154Science
NASA Adds Blue Origin New Glenn 9x4 to NLS II
For years, the question of how a space agency keeps its fleet of rockets from hardening into a fixed list locked to whoever won the last competition went largely unanswered. The standard practice in government...
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155Science
Medieval remedy fights bacteria with multi-target attack
The researchers behind the new work did not set out to write a history essay. They recreated a medicinal mixture recorded in a tenth century medical manuscript and pitted it against living, modern bacteria in the...
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156Science
Electricity To Food Farming Without Sunlight
In 2022, a team led by Robert Jinkerson at the University of California, Riverside, reported that growing yeast on acetate from a CO2 electrolyser was about 18 times more energy efficient than cultivating yeast the...
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