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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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Cannibal CMEs to Trigger Strong Geomagnetic Storm Watch
Cannibal CMEs to Trigger Strong Geomagnetic Storm Watch The sun is a volatile nuclear furnace that occasionally ejects billion ton clouds of magnetized plasma into space. When these clouds reach Earth, they can trigger...
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458Science
Energy harvesting from ambient signals without batteries
Energiegewinnung aus Umgebungssignalen ohne Batterien Die meisten Menschen glauben, dass jedes elektronische Gerät eine Batterie benötigt. Sie kennen die ständige Suche nach einem Ladegerät, die Angst vor dem leeren...
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459Science
Space exploration in 2026 is a global relay
Space exploration in 2026 is a global relay When people say "space race," they usually think of the 1960s. Two superpowers. Flags on the Moon. A finish line. But that word — race — implies a single sprint with one...
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460Science
SpaceX engineers rebuilt Starship after seven months of failures
SpaceX engineers rebuilt Starship after seven months of failures On a clear morning in May 2024, a young engineer named Carlos stood on a dirt road three miles from the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas. He had driven...
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461Science
2026 Breakthrough Prizes Honor Gene Therapies and Cures
2026 Breakthrough Prizes Honor Gene Therapies and Cures A list of things that belong together: a gene, a switch, a single letter of DNA code. A virus, a light sensitive protein, a child seeing her mother's face for the...
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462Science
David Gross wins Breakthrough Prize for strong force discovery
David Gross wins Breakthrough Prize for strong force discovery In 1964, a young physicist named David Gross wrote a letter to his mentor. In it, he described a puzzle that had been bothering him for months. The problem...
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463Science
Spermine blocks iron-driven cell death
Spermine blocks iron driven cell death In Japanese, there is a word: shinrin yoku. It means “forest bathing”—not swimming in trees, but absorbing the atmosphere of a forest. In German, Waldeinsamkeit describes the...
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464Science
Turbulence energy flow direction reversed in lab experiment
Turbulence energy flow direction reversed in lab experiment The word "turbulence" comes from the Latin turba, meaning "crowd" or "confusion." Think of a packed city square at rush hour. People push in every direction....
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465Science
Iron atoms reveal magnetic fields on ultra-hot Jupiters
Iron atoms reveal magnetic fields on ultra hot Jupiters It begins with iron. Not the cold, rusted metal of a forgotten gate, but iron vaporized into a mist, swirling at 4,500 miles per hour through an atmosphere hot...
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466Science
Gene therapy restores sight and cures sickle cell disease
Gene therapy restores sight and cures sickle cell disease There is a line that separates a child who can see the stars from a child who will never see them. For some children, that line is drawn inside their own eyes. A...
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467Science
CRISPR delivery advances gene editing precision
CRISPR delivery advances gene editing precision A hand once held a stone knife to cut a wound, then a scalpel to heal it. Now that same hand holds something smaller than a virus, yet capable of rewriting the very code...
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5.5 million bees found in cemetery lawn
5.5 million bees found in cemetery lawn The border was invisible. It ran along the edge of a lawn in Ithaca, New York, where the grass of East Lawn Cemetery met the gravel of a parking lot. Rachel Fordyce crossed it...
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