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What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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Rocky Exoplanet 48 Light-Years Away Holds Strongest Habitability Evidence
Rocky Exoplanet 48 Light Years Away Holds Strongest Habitability Evidence Two Lenses on One Rocky World One research approach watches for the brief dimming of starlight when a planet passes in front of its star. Another...
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Starship Floats India Reaches Orbit Roman Awaits Launch
Starship Floats India Reaches Orbit Roman Awaits Launch A Ship That Refused to Sink SENTENCE: Tariq Malik, Space.com's editor in chief, and guest host Rick Jenet of the National Space Society discussed the flight in...
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243Science
AI Tools Drive More Papers With Less Polish
AI Tools Drive More Papers With Less Polish Doing More, Less Well Scientists who use large language models the AI tools trained on vast amounts of text to generate and refine language will spend less time perfecting...
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Mummified DNA from Chile Reveals Smallpox History
Mummified DNA from Chile Reveals Smallpox History A Four Century Silence Breaks For decades, the story of smallpox in the Americas had a missing chapter. The virus itself left almost no trace. That silence broke when...
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Gene Editing Aims to End a Lifetime of Cholesterol Pills
Gene Editing Aims to End a Lifetime of Cholesterol Pills One Infusion Versus a Lifetime of Pills For decades, the standard answer to high cholesterol has worn a familiar shape: a pill each day, a blood test every few...
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August 2026 Science Fiction Roundup Unveils Hidden Gems
August 2026 Science Fiction Roundup Unveils Hidden Gems The Quiet Month That Wasn't The simplest explanation is often the wrong one. For a quiet August in publishing, the simplest explanation is that nothing worth...
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The Mine Is Already on the Road
The Mine Is Already on the Road When One Number Reshapes an Industry One number sits at the heart of China's recycling ambitions: 40 percent. That is the share of certain battery elements that recyclers in China recover...
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August 2026 Brings Solar Eclipse Perseids Venus Lunar Eclipse
August 2026 Brings Solar Eclipse Perseids Venus Lunar Eclipse The Eclipse Everyone Knew Was Coming August 2026 is a calendar of four sky events. Every date on that calendar was known before the month began. That is the...
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Why More Firefighting Planes Will Not End Europe Megafires
Why More Firefighting Planes Will Not End Europe Megafires The Debate Treats Symptoms, Not Fire Imagine a doctor who answers every fever with stronger painkillers but never treats the infection beneath it. The patient...
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Wildfire Spread Tracked by Listening to Low Frequency Hum
Wildfire Spread Tracked by Listening to Low Frequency Hum Eyes on a Fire Are Not Enough In the past, wildfires tended to be spotted by people perched atop lookout stations. The watch was kept by eye alone, and smoke was...
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Convergence of Technologies Will Define the Next Decade
Convergence of Technologies Will Define the Next Decade The single breakthrough is a myth The simplest explanation for what comes next is often the wrong one. The simplest explanation says that one brilliant invention...
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CRISPR Cas12a2 Kills Cells When RNA Detected
CRISPR Cas12a2 Kills Cells When RNA Detected The simplest story about CRISPR is that it edits genes. That story is not wrong, but it is incomplete. The well known CRISPR Cas9 system finds a specific stretch of DNA,...
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