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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
13Science
A Stolen Laptop, Six Billion Dollars, and the Myth of Decentralised Money
The simplest explanation is often the wrong one, and so is the most dramatic. When $6.36 billion vanishes from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in roughly 20 minutes, the instinct is to picture a brilliant...
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14Science
A Urine Test That Reads RNA, Not DNA, for Bladder Cancer
The technology at the center of this story was not built for urine at all. It was built for blood. A team led by Maximilian Diehn, an oncologist at Stanford University, first developed a method to read tiny fragments of...
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15Science
The Bird That Gives Itself Jet Lag
A sailor crossing the Atlantic with a cheap pocket watch faces a quiet catastrophe: the watch runs fine, but it no longer agrees with the sky. Every degree of longitude the ship covers, the watch falls four minutes...
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16Science
Nine Space Shows That Rewired Three Decades of Television
The premise that once governed televised space adventure a bridge, a captain, a problem solved before the hour ends stopped holding up against its own evidence. From 1996 to 2026, the genre outgrew the bridge. It moved...
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17Science
The Nose as a Doorway: How Alzheimer's Research Turned Toward the Face
Aviv Regev, a biologist whose work carries weight across the field, told a conference audience in August, "Of course... we now know that Alzheimer's starts in the nose." 2] That single sentence reframed a disease most...
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18Science
Agilent Buys Proscia: The $270 Million Bet That Pathology's Paper Era May Be Ending
For most of the last hundred years, a pathologist's verdict lived on a glass slide and in a written report. The tissue was sliced, stained, mounted, and read under a microscope and then the image, the measurement, and...
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19Science
Swift's Fall: A Gamma-Ray Hunter's 22-Year Reign Ends Without a Successor
Gamma ray bursts are the brightest explosions science has ever recorded, and they vanish fast. Earlier observatories could turn toward a flash only after it had already dimmed. Swift was built to close that gap. It...
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20Science
The Fibre Hidden in the Peel
For generations, the routine in home kitchens and catering halls has followed the same choreography: wash the produce, cut away the skin, scoop out the seeds, trim the stalks, and send the flesh to the pan. The...
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21Science
The Ripples That Took Four Years to Explain
Víctor Ortega Jiménez was on a family trip to Atlanta when he noticed something in a flamingo pond that had nothing to do with the birds' famous pink plumage or their stilt like legs. 1] The flamingos were feeding below...
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22Science
A Bat That Shrank Like a Shadow: Madagascar's Flying Fox and the Museum Drawer That Caught It
That is close to what happened to Malagasy flying foxes, the fruit bats known as Pteropus rufus, whose preserved skulls in museum drawers now read like a diary of their own decline. The animals are large by bat...
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23Science
How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole
There are two ways to convince oneself that a black hole is real. The first is statistical: you watch the stars at the center of a galaxy, and over many years their orbits betray an enormous mass packed into a space too...
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24Science
Why Water Refuses to Cool as Fast as It Heats
Graham Smith, writing from Melbourne, Australia, lays out the machinery behind a question that sounds almost childish until it is put to the test. Heat moving into or out of water is governed by three variables. 1] The...
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