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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
97Science
Orbital Laboratory Doubles as Hospital Ward and Greenhouse
The Dragon spacecraft carries experiments that treat the International Space Station less like a laboratory and more like a clinical trial and an agricultural station rolled into one. 2] The first of these is a...
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98Science
Monte Verde's Reckoning: Who Really Reached the Americas First
For half a century, a creek bank in southern Chile has anchored one of archaeology's boldest claims. Monte Verde sits a few tens of kilometres inland from the Pacific Ocean, on the banks of the Chinchihuapi creek, a...
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99Science
Coast Redwoods Turn Down Their Own Photosynthesis When Heat Becomes Unbearable
A tree that has stood through fire, fungus and rot for more than a thousand years now appears to do something biologists usually reserve for creatures with a nervous system: it flinches. When the air around a coast...
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100Science
The Year the Sky Ran Out of Water
In 1877, the rain stopped in places that had no word for "global." Northern China endured its worst drought in three centuries. Northeastern Brazil, India, South Africa, and northern Africa all withered under the same...
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101Science
The Ghost Particle That Refused to Stay Hidden
In 2013, researchers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory reported something its designers had not promised. 1] The instrument, buried deep in Antarctic ice at the South Pole, had been built to catch neutrinos. Instead,...
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102Science
Thorium's Long Wait: A Fuel Without a Reactor
Measured in the Desert China's experimental reactor in the Gobi Desert converted thorium into uranium fuel in 2025. 1] The Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the thorium to uranium fuel conversion, a measurement that...
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103Science
XFG shows Covid evolving to evade immunity not worsen
A virus is not a single thing. It is a swarm of slightly different copies, and every so often two of those copies meet inside one body and trade whole paragraphs of genetic text. That is what happened with XFG, the...
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104Science
Optogenetics Neutrinos and Chiral Molecules Win Nobel Prizes
Somewhere in a laboratory, a thin fiber optic cable carries a pulse of blue light into the brain of a living mouse. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel...
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105Science
237 Days in Orbit: The Rehearsal NASA Runs Before Leaving Earth
Seven months is not a long time by the standards of a human life. It is a very long time by the standards of a spacecraft. On October 8, 2026, a Crew Dragon capsule named Freedom dropped into the Pacific Ocean off the...
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106Science
Etching Flux Controls Where Crystal Nucleation Begins
A semiconductor crystal does not appear everywhere at once. It begins at a nucleus a tiny seed and grows outward from that point. The difficulty is that this seed forms where it wants, not where an engineer wants it....
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107Science
Jurassic Swimmer Fossil Rewrites Mammal Suckling Origins
The surprise was not in the digging. It was in the assumption about what a Jurassic mammaliaform could be. For decades, the small, shrew like creatures that scurried beneath the feet of dinosaurs were filed under a...
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108Science
Gut Microbe Molecule Lowers Cholesterol and Arterial Plaque
Atherosclerosis is quiet. Fatty plaque builds up in the walls of arteries, narrowing the channel that blood must pass through, and for years the person carrying it feels nothing. Atherosclerosis, the progressive buildup...
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