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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
421Science
Severe COVID Reactivates Dormant Viruses Linked to Long COVID
A dormant virus is a quiet passenger. It sits inside human cells for decades, causing no harm, waiting. For most of medical history, scientists believed this was a one way ticket once the immune system contained these...
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422Science
Science must prove its value as trust fades
For generations, the relationship between governments and the scientific community rested on a remarkably simple handshake. The public, through taxation, would fund research. In return, scientists would deliver...
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423Science
Desert dunes transform into seasonal lagoons in Brazil
Most people come to northeastern Brazil looking for beaches. Scientists came looking for sand. What they found instead was a landscape that defies every rule of desert geography a place that looks like the Sahara from...
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424Science
Mars Loses Atmosphere to Giant Solar Wind Waves
For decades, scientists have understood that Mars has a thin atmosphere, a weakness that makes it vulnerable to the solar wind. The prevailing theory painted a picture of gradual, steady erosion over billions of years....
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425Science
AI Pioneer Jeff Dean Leaves Google for Discovery Loop Startup
For decades, machines have aided research. They compute, they simulate, they analyze. But the scientific method itself has always passed through a human mind. A scientist proposes an experiment. The scientist implements...
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426Science
Rare FNIP1 gene variants lower cardiometabolic disease risk
For decades, a routine lipid panel gave doctors two numbers that seemed to matter. One was triglycerides, the fat carried through the blood. The other was high density lipoprotein cholesterol, often called the good...
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427Science
First Direct Images of Solar Whirlpools
As of 2026, the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the most detailed images of the sun to date. The new pictures show characteristic swirls of magnetized plasma across a 19 kilometer wide patch of the sun's...
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428Science
Dark Matter Could Live in a Fifth Dimension
A marionette glides across a stage, and no hand is visible. Yet every lift of its arm obeys strings the audience cannot see. Cosmologists study the universe in much the same way. Many of its features would dissolve or...
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429Science
Studies Find AI Assistance Makes Skills Vanish
There was an experiment that functioned like a simulation of the future. The doctors in it had been trained to spot polyps during colonoscopies, a specialized skill built through practice and performed through a scope...
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430Science
Deep past explains diet and machines
There is no argument about food that has not been screamed at high volume. Paleo, vegan, Mediterranean, low carb, high carb, intermittent fasting, and plain old moderation all claim to be the answer. The paradox is that...
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431Science
Pet Flea Treatments Found Damaging UK River Wildlife
The mayfly lives two lives. In the first, it is a nymph, dwelling on riverbeds for months, breathing through gills and grazing on algae. In the second, it sprouts wings, rises to the surface, and lives for a single day....
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432Science
Falcon 9 Rocket Stage Headed for Moon Impact
Ground based telescopes and space based instruments are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission, and the object is now on course for the Moon. NASA and SpaceX are following the rocket body...
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