NASA sent a spacecraft to rescue its falling Swift Observatory telescope. Then the rescue spacecraft itself lost control in orbit. Here’s what happened next.
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Scientists Just Built a Laser Out of Sound Instead of Light. It Can Measure Gravity Itself.
Scientists built a laser out of sound instead of light, precise enough to measure gravity itself — and it echoes one of the oldest claims about how the world began.
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Ice Age Humans Were Starving and Freezing 40,000 Years Ago. They Still Stopped to Carve a Bird the Size of a Thumbnail.
Tiny 40,000-year-old ivory bird figurines were just found in an Ice Age cave, and what it cost someone to carve them reveals something science can’t explain.
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Physicists Proved Two Particles Stay Connected Through a City’s Busiest Cable
Physicists sent entangled photons through a city’s busiest internet cable and they stayed perfectly linked. Here’s what that quantum entanglement breakthrough means.
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This ‘Living Plastic’ Chooses When to Self-Destruct
Scientists engineered a self-destructing plastic that fully breaks down in 6 days with zero microplastics left behind — and the pattern isn’t new.
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Scientists Made a Metal 10 Times Stronger Than Steel — By Deliberately Breaking It First
Purdue engineers built a metal alloy up to 10 times stronger than steel by deliberately adding microscopic flaws into its structure. Here’s how it works.
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Scientists Just Found Two ‘Ghost’ Ancestors Hidden in Every Person’s DNA
Scientists just found two ‘ghost’ ancestors hidden inside every person’s DNA — with no fossils ever found. Here’s what the 2026 discovery means for you.
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The Best Predictor of a Good Life Isn’t Money, Career, or IQ — Here’s What New Research Found
New research says relationship quality beats wealth, career, and IQ as the best predictor of a good life. Here’s the data — and the ancient idea it just confirmed.
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Scientists Are Finally Cracking ‘Forever Chemicals’
For decades PFAS forever chemicals were considered impossible to destroy. Now scientists are finally breaking them down — and what it reveals may surprise you.
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The Hidden Reason Some Volcanoes Explode, Others Don’t
Scientists just found the hidden, heat-driven reason some volcanoes erupt violently while others quietly flow — a secret buried deep inside rising magma.