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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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Why Praying for Rain Statistically Appears to Work
Why Praying for Rain Statistically Appears to Work A Statistical Trick Hiding in Ancient Customs For centuries, communities in China turned to dragons when drought struck In Murcia, Spain, the Catholic Church has held...
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Guimaraes proves green living needs no sacrifice
Guimaraes proves green living needs no sacrifice The simplest explanation for why we cannot save the planet is that sacrifice is required. It feels intuitive: if everyone consumed less, the Earth would suffer less. But...
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Gen Alpha children now choose family vacations
Gen Alpha children now choose family vacations Children born between 2010 and 2024, known as Generation Alpha, are now the primary decision makers for family vacations, according to a 2025 Mastercard Travel Trendline...
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Quarks and electrons may not fully describe us
Quarks and electrons may not fully describe us The Simplest Answer Is Often a Trap The most straightforward description of what makes up a human body is almost always the wrong one. A physiologist would say we are 60...
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IonQ achieves record 99.99 percent quantum gate fidelity
IonQ achieves record 99.99 percent quantum gate fidelity The Accidental Path to Four Nines Precision What began as an unexpected detour in quantum research has now reshaped the entire field. IonQ has announced that it...
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Two Jupiter-sized planets lighter than shaving foam
Two Jupiter sized planets lighter than shaving foam When a planet is less dense than shaving foam The Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets telescope sits at Concordia Station, one of the most isolated places on...
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Starship Tests Satellite Deployment After Engine Fixes
Starship Tests Satellite Deployment After Engine Fixes A Last Minute Fix for a Ninety Degree Flip The previous Starship flight in May 2026, Flight 12, ended with a failure that engineers traced to a single moment of...
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Two super-puff planets as light as shaving foam
Two super puff planets as light as shaving foam Planets as puffy as fresh foam For decades, astronomers assumed that planets as large as Jupiter must be dense, with thick atmospheres and heavy cores. That assumption now...
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The Soviet Precedent Haunts American Science
The Soviet Precedent Haunts American Science The Experiment That Tested Political Will In 1930s Soviet Union, a simple agricultural experiment was meant to prove a revolutionary claim. Trofim Lysenko, an agronomist with...
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CRISPR gene therapy now approved for toddlers with sickle cell
CRISPR gene therapy now approved for toddlers with sickle cell A Scalpel That Cuts Disease at Its Genetic Root For decades, a child diagnosed with sickle cell disease faced a slow accumulation of damage that no drug...
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Hominin body size jump linked to Homo erectus emergence
Hominin body size jump linked to Homo erectus emergence An Accidental Discovery in the Fossil Record Jacob Gardner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in the UK, was not originally searching for a...
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Two ways jet stream locks Europe in heat dome
Two ways jet stream locks Europe in heat dome When a Kink in the Wind Becomes a Trap For decades, weather forecasters could spot a heatwave coming a few days ahead. But they could not tell if it would last three days or...
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