Rubric 01
Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
481Science
3D Fossil Skull Reveals Oldest Burrowing Snake
For decades, the oldest snakes were believed to have lived on the surface or in the water. The earliest known snake ancestor, a creature that lived 167 million years ago, was thought to have been somewhat adapted for an...
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482Science
Fish recognize kind without self-sight
Most fish have eyes positioned on the sides of their heads. This placement means they cannot see their own body. A human cannot see their own face without a mirror. The same limitation applies to fish. Yet fish still...
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483Science
Measles virus stays airborne for two hours
For decades, the ability to remain infectious in a room long after a sick person has left was a trait understood only in the context of airborne pathogens like tuberculosis. Measles, however, does something that even...
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484Science
One Dome Changes How Connecticut Sees the Universe
A single public planetarium the Gengras Planetarium served Connecticut for over half a century. It gave residents a rare shared space to experience the universe together. Generations of schoolchildren leaned back...
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485Science
Brain imaging errors reveal hidden aging patterns in mental illness
For years, researchers running structural MRI scans noticed something odd. The machine learning algorithms they used to estimate a person's age from brain images kept producing errors. A 60 year old patient with...
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486Science
The 26-Year Gap Between Science and Therapy
The gap between a scientific discovery and its arrival in a doctor's office is not measured in months. It is measured in decades. In 2011, researchers Morris, Wooding, and Grant published a study in the Journal of the...
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487Science
Geothermal Energy Unlocks Earths Deep Heat
The Earth's deep heat is locked behind three conditions that rarely occur together: heat, water, and fractured rock. The vault holds enough energy to power human civilization for millennia. The keys? Heat, water, and...
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Tom Hiddleston rebuilds Pompeii with science and story
Archaeologists and disaster psychologists examine the same evidence from Pompeii but ask different questions. Archaeologist Caitie Barrett of Cornell University helps Tom Hiddleston interpret the estate of Julia Felix,...
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489Science
Kimi K3 challenges open-weight AI ceiling with vast memory
The latest Chinese built large language model, named Kimi K3, has demonstrated capabilities that rival top US competitors on coding and spreadsheet tasks. Moonshot AI, the Beijing based company behind the model,...
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490Science
Gut molecule sodium butyrate may prevent post traumatic epilepsy
Dr. Samba Reddy, a professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at Texas A&M University, was not originally searching for a way to prevent post traumatic epilepsy. He had been studying how brain injuries...
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491Science
Scribes CRISPR pill aims to replace daily statins
For decades, the logic of treating high cholesterol has been simple: a chronic condition needs chronic medication. The standard approach involves measuring LDL levels, taking a daily statin, and measuring again. The...
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492Science
Brain rewires itself to bypass multitasking bottleneck
For decades, scientists have studied how the brain learns by observing snapshots measuring activity before training and after expertise has formed. They knew that experts in bird identification, car recognition, or even...
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