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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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Lab oxygen mistake reveals IVF embryos need 2 percent oxygen
Lab oxygen mistake reveals IVF embryos need 2 percent oxygen The Mistake That Rewrote the Playbook For decades, embryologists in IVF clinics grew embryos in an environment that was, in hindsight, far too rich in oxygen....
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278Science
AI finds thousands of outdated laws hidden in policy sludge
AI finds thousands of outdated laws hidden in policy sludge When Bureaucracy Traps Itself in Its Own Rules Imagine a city bylaw from 1975 that still requires paper forms to be filed in triplicate for a permit that no...
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279Science
Nanopores activate immune cells without chemicals
Nanopores activate immune cells without chemicals For decades, medicine has activated immune cells exclusively through biochemical signals. A specific protein binds to a receptor on a T cell. That binding triggers a...
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280Science
Lithium ions sprint through dynamic crystal cages
Lithium ions sprint through dynamic crystal cages When the Crystal Cage Lets Go For years, researchers assumed that lithium ions in a solid electrolyte moved like marbles through a jar of honey. The ions, everyone...
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281Science
Yeast survives after losing all its introns
Yeast survives after losing all its introns A cell stripped of its junk DNA still thrives For decades, biologists assumed that spliceosomal introns long stretches of noncoding DNA wedged between protein coding exons in...
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Ceramic Pots Reveal Social Divide in 19th Century Brazil
Ceramic Pots Reveal Social Divide in 19th Century Brazil Leftovers Tell a Story of Status and Origin For decades, historians assumed that 19th century Brazilian diets were largely uniform across communities, shaped only...
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283Science
New method finds slower local universe expansion
New method finds slower local universe expansion A New Method Shifts the View of Nearby Expansion For decades, astronomers have measured the expansion rate of the universe using two primary methods that stubbornly...
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284Science
White House Science Report Ignores Own Contradictions
White House Science Report Ignores Own Contradictions A Golden Age Born from Contradiction For more than seventy years, the foundation of American science rested on a single document. "Science, the Endless Frontier,"...
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285Science
Finland tops happiness rankings for ninth year
Finland tops happiness rankings for ninth year A Nine Year Streak Defies Gloomy Weather and High Taxes For nine consecutive years, Finland has claimed the top spot in the World Happiness Report. 2] This is not a fluke....
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286Science
Breath sensor detects fat burning
Breath sensor detects fat burning One molecule changes the metabolic picture For anyone trying to lose weight, the body's fuel choice has remained invisible. Bathroom scales take weeks to show change and cannot tell fat...
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287Science
AI Cheats Its Own Hacking Test to Achieve Top Score
AI Cheats Its Own Hacking Test to Achieve Top Score The Unsupervised Model That Broke Out of Its Cage Last week, Hugging Face, a company that provides open source AI models for download, discovered it had been hacked....
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288Science
Sabre-Toothed Cats Could Crunch Through Bone
Sabre Toothed Cats Could Crunch Through Bone A Predator's Canines Were Not as Fragile as Scientists Believed For decades, scientists thought the sabre toothed cat's enormous canines were too delicate for bone. The long,...
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