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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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Night Heat Costs Urban Dwellers 56 Hours of Sleep Yearly
Night Heat Costs Urban Dwellers 56 Hours of Sleep Yearly The world measures heat by its daytime peaks. Thermometers climb, records fall, and cities brace for the afternoon assault. But a quieter crisis unfolds after...
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Earth and life co-evolved in a four billion year conversation
Earth and life co evolved in a four billion year conversation On 14 February 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft turned around briefly to snap a picture of Earth before heading to the fringes of the Solar System. 2] The...
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183Science
Space Mirrors Get Green Light for First Flight
Space Mirrors Get Green Light for First Flight The first of what could become tens of thousands of sunlight directing space mirrors just received approval to fly. A California based startup named Reflect Orbital has...
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184Science
Scientific breakthroughs driven by tools not lone genius
Scientific breakthroughs driven by tools not lone genius The established story of scientific discovery has long followed a familiar arc: a lone genius, a sudden flash of insight, a eureka moment that rewrites the...
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185Science
Two siblings with same mutation reveal power of early cancer screening
Two siblings with same mutation reveal power of early cancer screening The white glow in Daniel Oakes' right pupil was not a trick of light. When the 2½ year old moved his head, the shine remained — a bleached out...
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186Science
DNA Shredder Offers New Way to Kill Diseased Cells
DNA Shredder Offers New Way to Kill Diseased Cells Editing Versus Elimination For over a decade, the story of CRISPR has been one of precision editing. Scientists learned to cut a gene at a specific spot, remove a...
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187Science
Drought may have driven yellow fever into Brazilian cities
Drought may have driven yellow fever into Brazilian cities It started with a mistake. In 2015, an El Niño powered an abnormally strong drought across central South America. Researchers initially set out to study how...
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188Science
Afghanistans Girls Five Years Without Education
Afghanistans Girls Five Years Without Education It began with a simple count. Researchers tallied the number of school age girls in Afghanistan, then subtracted those actually attending class. The result was a figure so...
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189Science
Quantum Entanglement Measurement Breakthrough Achieved
Quantum Entanglement Measurement Breakthrough Achieved A single photon can hold a state of being that defies classical intuition. It can exist in superposition being in multiple states at once until measured, forcing...
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190Science
Proba-3 mission predicts solar eclipse corona two weeks early
Proba 3 mission predicts solar eclipse corona two weeks early For most of human history, the solar corona that ghostly white halo surrounding the Sun was visible only during total solar eclipses. These natural events...
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191Science
One ant triggers colony-wide synchronized activity
One ant triggers colony wide synchronized activity For decades, biologists have watched ant colonies erupt in sudden, coordinated bursts of activity. A seemingly calm nest would explode into a frenzy of movement, with...
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192Science
Digital Twins Reveal Flood Risk Maps Cannot Show
Digital Twins Reveal Flood Risk Maps Cannot Show A map can show where water might rise. It cannot show how a family will feel when that water reaches their door. This gap between statistical risk and lived experience...
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