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One Supernova, Five Times: SN Winny and the Hubble Tension
A six-year hunt for a one-in-a-million coincidence finally paid off. The same exploding star, repeated five times across the sky, may settle cosmology's loudest fight.
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ScienceFool's Gold Has Been Hiding Real Lithium This Whole Time
A West Virginia lab has found measurable lithium locked inside pyrite from Appalachian black shale, an unexpected source for the metal that runs the battery economy.
NatureThe First Real Skeleton of a Dinosaur-Killing Crocodile
A 31-foot crocodile that ambushed dinosaurs finally has an accurate full skeleton, forty years after the search for it began.
IdeasA Sound Wave Might Finally Find Consciousness
An MIT roadmap lays out how transcranial focused ultrasound, a tool that can reach deep brain tissue a millimeter at a time, could finally answer questions neuroscience has been unable to resolve for thirty years.
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ScienceScientists Stretched a Liquid Until It Snapped Like Glass
A Drexel team pulled a simple viscous liquid until it broke with an audible crack. The result rewrites a textbook boundary between fluids and solids.
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Scientists Found the Protein That Ages Your Brain, and They Can Switch It Off
A UCSF team identified FTL1, the single protein most tied to cognitive decline in aging mice, then reversed memory loss by dialing it down.
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A 1,000-Year-Old Viking Whale Trap Just Surfaced on the Norwegian Seabed
Marine archaeologists found a massive belt of stones beneath a narrow Norwegian strait. It matches descriptions in the oldest Norwegian law code, and it rewrites what we knew about medieval whaling.
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The 500-Year-Old Masked Festival Hiding in Plain Sight on a Quebec Island
Every March, residents of a tiny St. Lawrence River island put on elaborate disguises and go door to door trying not to be recognized. It's called Mi-Careme, and it nearly vanished.
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Every Notification Hijacks Your Brain for Seven Seconds. The Science Explains Why.
A clever experiment reveals that each phone alert triggers a measurable cognitive disruption, and your pupils prove it's not just in your head.
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Arctic Permafrost Is Melting Into Rivers, Releasing Carbon Frozen for Thousands of Years
A 44-year study of Alaska's North Slope reveals how thawing permafrost is flushing ancient dissolved carbon into Arctic rivers and reshaping coastal ecosystems.
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Friends as Medicine: The Biology of Why Social Connection Extends Your Life
The same biology that makes loneliness deadly also makes friendship therapeutic. New research reveals how social bonds reduce inflammation, rewire stress responses, and add years to your life.
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Why Are Teens Sleeping Less Than Ever? It's Not Just Screens.
A new JAMA study found nearly one in four teens sleeps five hours or less per night, up from 16% in 2007, and screens aren't the main driver. Here's what the research actually shows.
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Your Student Loans Are Moving to the Treasury Department. Here's What That Means.
The Trump administration just announced a three-phase plan to transfer $1.7 trillion in student loans from Education to Treasury, starting with 10 million defaulted borrowers.
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The DHS Shutdown Is Breaking America's Airports
TSA agents are quitting, lines stretch past two hours, and officials warn some airports may literally close. How a political standoff over immigration became a travel crisis.
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Trump Calls NATO 'Cowards': The Hormuz Standoff Is Fracturing the Western Alliance
NATO allies refuse to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz after Trump's demand, with European leaders calling the Iran conflict 'not our war' in the sharpest transatlantic split in decades.