HIV cure in newborns? A new monkey study cleared the virus in eight infants — and found no trace the body had ever fought it. Here is what it really shows.
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NASA Satellites Navigate Without GPS by Watching Space Junk
NASA’s Starling satellites learned to navigate without GPS by watching space junk and dead satellites. Then they improved the very map they were given.
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A Greenland Ice Island the Size of Manhattan Broke Free — and Scientists Saw It Coming for Years
A Greenland ice island the size of Manhattan broke off Petermann Glacier on 4 August. Satellites had tracked the crack for years, and two bigger ones are next.
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Himalayan Pangolin: A New Species Named 190 Years Ago
DNA from an 1836 museum skin confirmed the Himalayan pangolin as its own species — and proved the man who first named it in Nepal had been right all along.
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The Adult Brain Can Repair Itself: What Scientists Just Saw
A Nature Neuroscience study watched the adult brain repair itself in mice. The cells doing the rebuilding are the ones science called filler for a century.
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A Tiny Big Bang, Made From the Smallest Nuclei Yet
Physicists made a tiny Big Bang from two of the smallest nuclei yet, and the debris still carried the shape of what made it. Here is what the finding means.
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Can Microbes Survive on the Moon? What NASA Actually Found
Can microbes survive on the moon? A NASA-led study modelled five organisms at the lunar south pole — and the survival bar was lower than headlines suggest.
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What Holds a Proton Together May Not Be Its Parts
For fifty years the textbook answer to what holds a proton together was three quarks. New collider data points somewhere stranger: the junction between them.
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Bird Feeders and Bird Flu: Why Experts Are Asking People to Stop
Bird feeders and bird flu are now linked: H5N1 moves fastest wherever birds crowd together. Here is what the researchers who study feeding actually advise.
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AI Decoded the DNA Initiator: The Mark That Tells a Cell Where to Begin
Scientists used AI to decode the DNA initiator, the mark in about 60% of promoters that tells a cell where to start reading — and what it still cannot read.