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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
229Science
Quarry Reveals Denisovan Life Over 100000 Years
The story begins with a search for something else entirely. An abandoned quarry in southwestern China was not excavated with Denisovans in mind. The site yielded a trove of fossils and artefacts that no one had...
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230Science
UN votes to replace Mercator map with Equal Earth
Rose and a Hall of Mirrors A sailor trusts a compass needle to point north. A student trusts a classroom map to show the world as it is. Both instruments can be perfectly reliable for one purpose and quietly misleading...
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231Science
Structure Reveals Hidden GPCR-Like Proteins in Dark Proteome
Sequence similarity has long been the workhorse of protein annotation. If a new protein looks like a known one, we assume it does the same job. That assumption has served biology well for decades. But it has also left...
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232Science
AI Algorithms Drive Autonomous Space Exploration
A spacecraft billions of miles from Earth faces an unexpected gravitational nudge. A course correction is needed now. But a signal from Earth takes hours to arrive. By the time instructions reach the probe, the window...
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233Science
NOAA Plan Weakens Fisheries Science and Habitat Protection
In 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced new agency priorities it described as a commitment to "cutting bureaucracy, modernizing our science, and putting our fishing communities first." 1]....
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234Science
Single Atom Splits Into Two Realities in Quantum Test
Nearly a century ago, physicists worked out what free fall should do to a quantum wave. Their solution carries enormous weight. If it is wrong, quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's theory of gravity flatly contradict...
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235Science
Paintings as Scientific Records of Lost Species
A naming system built for something else entirely now lets biologists read historical paintings as scientific records. Carl Linnaeus built that naming system in the 18th century to organize specimens. Today researchers...
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236Science
Global Flip in Foraminifera Shell Coiling Explained
Foraminifera are single celled organisms that build tiny spiral shells, and they are everywhere in the ocean. From the tropics to the coldest high latitudes, these protists drift with currents or crawl along the...
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237Science
Former Linebacker Finds Hope in Red Light Brain Therapy
Larry Carr held a Ph.D. in physiology and exercise physiology. 6] He had been a star middle linebacker for Brigham Young University's football team in the 1970s, and he still holds the record for tackles per game over a...
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238Science
Yunnan Cave Yields Richest Denisovan Fossil Trove
Southwestern China's Yunnan Province is a landscape of limestone ridges and river valleys. For decades, one particular hillside there held no special interest until an ecological restoration project at an abandoned...
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239Science
Personal Locator Beacon Saves Five After Boat Sinks
A message in a bottle and a satellite distress signal share the same operating principle: both trust a stranger to find them. The difference is the stranger. One is a beachcomber who may never walk that shore. The other...
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240Science
Two Images and One Ship: The Picard Maneuver and the Limit of Measurement
In the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an episode called "The Battle" introduced a tactical idea that seemed far too clever to be real. A Ferengi commander forces Captain Jean Luc Picard to relive an old...
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