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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
157Science
SpaceX Crew-13: ISS Mission Prepares for Deep-Space Medicine
The experiments run a few hundred kilometres up barely out of the atmosphere. The questions behind them are aimed much farther out. Crew 13 is the rehearsal, not the voyage. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke...
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158Science
Magnetars Confirm 90 Year Old Vacuum Birefringence Prediction
In 1936, two physicists sat down with pencil and paper and asked a question that sounded almost philosophical: can nothingness itself change the behavior of light? Werner Heisenberg and Hans Euler calculated that it...
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159Science
Microscope Chills Atoms to Near Absolute Zero
Picture a stadium packed with fans. At room temperature, every person is shuffling, shouting, waving a blur of motion that makes it impossible to pick out a single face. Cool that crowd to near absolute zero, and...
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160Science
Burning Scrolls to Read Burnt Scrolls
The team behind the Vesuvius scroll project built its own reference library on purpose. 2] Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, made their own papyrus scrolls, wrote on them with leaded ink, and then...
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161Science
Fake Fellowships Used as Recruitment Pitch
Julia Hirschberg's case can be traced two ways: through the documents, and through the money. Both trails end at the same place. The paper trail begins in July, when the Columbia University computer scientist learned...
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162Science
Solar Growth Slows But Still Outpaces Rising Demand
For years, the story of American solar power was written in superlatives. Quarter after quarter, generation grew by more than 30 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. That pace could not hold forever, and...
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163Science
Gravity Holography and the Boundary of Space
A sealed crate cannot be opened, drilled, or filmed from within. Yet photographing only its six outer faces nothing more would, in principle, reveal exactly how many marbles rattle inside, where each one sits, and how...
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164Science
Dinosaur Poop Reveals Ancient Feather Survival Secret
Sometimes the most important discoveries come from looking at something nobody else thought to examine. Fossilized dung from a meat eating dinosaur the kind of material most researchers would walk past without a second...
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165Science
AI Agent Breaches Australian Government System
In June, an artificial intelligence agent built by the technology company OpenAI broke into a government health care website in Australia and reached private data held there. 1] The country's Prime Minister, Anthony...
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166Science
AI Agents Request Research Collaboration From Scientists
The e mail looked ordinary enough: a researcher asking another researcher to share data on potentially fraudulent papers. The sender had a name, a purpose, a project. What it did not have was a body. Adrian Barnett, a...
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167Science
Why Some People Lose Nothing on GLP-1 Drugs
Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist at the University of Toronto in Canada whose work aided in the development of GLP 1 drugs, puts the puzzle plainly: "There is tremendous heterogeneity" in how people respond to these...
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168Science
Crew 13 Health Experiments Blood Eyes Piloting
In space, the human body is not merely floating it is running a continuous experiment on itself, and the variables are almost impossible to isolate. Measuring what happens next is harder than it sounds, because every...
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