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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
313Science
Black hole plasma jets revealed in AI video
A black hole is, by definition, the one thing in the universe that cannot shine. It swallows everything, even light itself. Yet the space immediately around it can blaze with a brightness that outshines entire galaxies....
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314Science
FIU Class of 2026 Achieves Breakthroughs in Alzheimer's and Athletics
For decades, researchers have known that inflammation in the brain plays a role in Alzheimer's disease. What they could not figure out was how to detect that inflammation early enough to make a difference. The...
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315Science
Ultrasound Helmet Offers Noninvasive Deep Brain Access
For decades, the deepest structures of the human brain have been a locked room. Scientists could see them on scans, could infer their activity, but could only truly interact with them through the brutal workaround of...
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316Science
EEG Tetris Study Reveals Brain Planning in Real Time
Block at a Time For decades, scientists who wanted to understand how the brain plans ahead faced a frustrating limitation. They could observe the results of decisions, but the internal process the tiny electrical...
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317Science
A World Where Death Begins and Birth Ends
From the vantage point of a satellite circling the planet, the blue marble below seems stable, predictable, governed by rules that have held for millennia. But what if the very foundation of life itself operated on a...
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318Science
Tetris Reveals How Brains Plan Future Moves
For decades, scientists who wanted to understand how humans make decisions had two basic options. They could bring people into sterile laboratories and have them press buttons in response to simple cues, or they could...
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319Science
Dolly Parton and the Sheep She Inspired
A chart topping country ballad and a cloned mammal seem worlds apart. Yet both rely on the same principle: a familiar melody or a known genetic code, replicated with precision. Just as a cover version can introduce an...
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320Science
Moon Recycling Prize Won by Homogenizing Trash
When engineers first considered the problem of waste on a Moon mission, the obvious solution seemed to be sorting. Separate the plastics from the metals, the foams from the fabrics, and process each stream individually....
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321Science
NASA's Roman Telescope to Survey Vast Cosmic Frontier
In 1964, two radio astronomers at Bell Labs in New Jersey kept hearing a persistent hiss in their antenna. 1] Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had tried everything to get rid of it. They cleaned out pigeon droppings. They...
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322Science
Roman Telescope to Survey Milky Way in One Month
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a countdown clock near the main gate has been ticking since early summer. The target date is 30 August, when the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is...
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323Science
Coral Records Show Century of Unprecedented El Nino Events
For Julia Cole, a palaeoclimatologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the powerful El Niño event now gaining strength in the Pacific Ocean comes as no surprise. Cole led the research team that produced the...
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324Science
Literacy Reform Now Depends on Classroom Implementation
For a decade, the battle cry across state legislatures was simple: pass the science of reading law. Teacher training mandates, curriculum overhauls, and early screening requirements spread like wildfire, and nearly...
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