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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
349Science
Marbled Murrelet Nest Found on Haida Gwaii
The western red cedars of Haida Gwaii rise like silent cathedrals, their massive trunks wrapped in moss that has taken centuries to grow. For more than three decades, researchers believed the marbled murrelet a small...
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350Science
Quantum Optimization Machines Enter Consulting Firms
Quantum optimization machines represent a fundamental departure from classical computing. Traditional computers process information sequentially, step by step through calculations. Quantum systems instead explore vast...
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351Science
siRNA drugs silence genes and treat disease
It began with a puzzle that geneticists could not solve. Cells were producing proteins that should not exist, and no one could figure out why. The standard model of biology said that DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes...
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352Science
CRISPR Therapeutics Expands Beyond Gene Editing to Fight Blood Clots
From orbit, Earth looks like a calm blue marble. But zoom in on the United States, and a silent crisis unfolds every year. Up to 900,000 people suffer from venous thromboembolism, a condition where blood clots form in...
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353Science
A Sleep Drug That Unlocks New Brain Treatments
For decades, narcolepsy was understood as a single, narrow failure: the brain losing its ability to regulate sleep wake cycles. The condition, marked by sudden sleep attacks and muscle weakness triggered by strong...
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354Science
Massive Rocky Planet Defies Planetary Formation Theories
For decades, astronomers have mapped the skies with indirect measurements. They calculated what distant worlds must be like by observing their shadows and their tugs on distant stars. Now, for the first time, a...
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355Science
Personalized mRNA vaccine cuts melanoma recurrence risk in trial
For decades, the idea of training a person's immune system to recognize their own cancer felt like a distant dream. Researchers could describe the goal with precision, but no large scale study had ever shown it working...
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356Science
Supercentenarians immune system fights cancer with rare T cells
Most people assume aging means the immune system simply winds down, becoming weaker and less effective with each passing year. That assumption holds true for the vast majority of humanity, but it collapses entirely when...
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357Science
3D Printers Transform Scientists into Lab Equipment Makers
The first 3D printers were built for engineers prototyping machine parts. They laid down plastic layer by layer, creating brackets and housings for industrial products. The technology was expensive, slow, and confined...
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358Science
Shock Wave Therapy Offers New Hope for Erectile Dysfunction
Between a jackhammer shattering concrete and a tuning fork humming against a piano string lies a strange middle ground. One delivers brute force meant to demolish. The other delivers gentle vibration meant to resonate....
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359Science
Mega-Earth Discovery Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Astronomers have found a world that should not exist. The object, designated GJ 523b, sits far beyond our solar system. It is a rocky planet with a mass about 23 times that of Earth. Yet its width measures only about...
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360Science
IBM connects cryogenic systems to scale quantum computers
For years, the path to a powerful quantum computer has hit a stubborn wall. The machines that process information in qubits need temperatures colder than deep space. But adding more qubits requires more wiring, and that...
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