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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Fool'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.
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Scientists 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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Why a Pinch of Randomness Stops Robot Swarms Jamming
Harvard researchers found that robot swarms get stuck the way traffic does, and that adding noise unjams them. The math explains ant colonies and your commute.
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Dragonflies See a Red Humans Can't, and We Got There the Same Way
An Osaka team found dragonflies sensing light at 720 nanometers using the exact molecular trick mammals use for red vision, separated by 500 million years of evolution.
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Neanderthals Hunted and Ate Outsiders. A Belgian Cave Holds the Proof.
A reanalysis of 41,000-year-old bones from Belgium's Goyet cave reveals that Neanderthals selectively butchered women and children from a rival group, the strongest evidence yet for inter-group warfare in our closest relatives.
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A Hidden Drain in the Brain Rewrites 13 Years of Maps
Scientists just watched fluid crawl along an artery the brain should not have plumbed. The finding extends a discovery chain that began in 2012.
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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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One Injection Reversed Deafness: Inside the Gene Therapy Breakthrough
A single shot into the inner ear restored hearing in all 10 patients born deaf. One seven-year-old was having conversations within four months.
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The Brain Cells That Build Fear: How Astrocytes Rewrote Neuroscience
A landmark NIH study reveals that star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as mere support staff actually control how fear memories form, persist, and fade.
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Dying Stars Are Swallowing Their Planets, and We Can Finally See It Happening
A massive TESS survey of nearly 500,000 aging stars reveals that close-orbiting giant planets vanish as their host stars expand into red giants.
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This Deadly Parasite Hides in Your Blood by Shredding Its Own Genetic Instructions
Scientists have solved a 40-year-old mystery about how the sleeping sickness parasite evades the immune system, and the answer is a protein that destroys its own RNA.
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