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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
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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 report. A 2025 Mastercard Travel Trendline report...
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554Science
Quarks and electrons may not fully describe us
The most straightforward description of what makes up a human body is almost always the wrong one. A physiologist would say we are 60 percent water, roughly 20 percent carbon, with a scattering of other elements meaning...
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Two Jupiter-sized planets lighter than shaving foam
The Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets telescope sits at Concordia Station, one of the most isolated places on Earth. The Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets telescope sits at Concordia Station, one of...
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556Science
Starship Tests Satellite Deployment After Engine Fixes
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 misdirection. At stage separation, the Super Heavy booster was supposed...
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557Science
Two super-puff planets as light as shaving foam
For decades, astronomers assumed that planets as large as Jupiter must be dense, with thick atmospheres and heavy cores. That assumption now has a crack in it. Data from NASA's TESS mission has revealed two planets that...
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558Science
The Soviet Precedent Haunts American Science
In 1930s Soviet Union, a simple agricultural experiment was meant to prove a revolutionary claim. Trofim Lysenko, an agronomist with what historian Lee Dugatkin of the University of Louisville calls "the equivalent of a...
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559Science
CRISPR gene therapy now approved for toddlers with sickle cell
For decades, a child diagnosed with sickle cell disease faced a slow accumulation of damage that no drug could reverse. The condition begins not at adolescence, but in infancy, when fetal hemoglobin levels naturally...
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Hominin body size jump linked to Homo erectus emergence
Discovery in the Fossil Record Jacob Gardner, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in the UK, was not originally searching for a pattern in body size. 1] He and his colleagues compiled estimates of...
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561Science
Two ways jet stream locks Europe in heat dome
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 three weeks. That distinction matters. A seven day...
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562Science
Giant Trees Defy Drought Vulnerability Assumptions
For decades, ecologists assumed that the tallest trees on Earth faced a hidden weakness. Gravity, they believed, would eventually win. Water traveling upward through a tree's vascular system faces increasing resistance...
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CERN quest to solve Higgs boson mysteries
The Landscape That Shifted The map of the universe was once simpler Scientists knew of three fundamental forces that shaped every atom, every star, every breath you take. Electromagnetism was understood. The particle...
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AI generated code threatens open source maintainers
The box labeled "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003" holds up everything. It sits at the bottom of a teetering pile. The boxes above it are labeled "all modern digital...
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