MIT built living transistors from bacteria that really compute — but each calculation takes eight hours. Here is what that slowness quietly reveals about life.
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How Complex Life Began: Two Cells That Can’t Live Apart
How complex life began may come down to two microbes in Shark Bay, joined by tiny tubes and unable to grow alone. Here is what that partnership reveals.
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Why Star Formation Is Declining: The Universe Never Ran Out of Fuel
Star formation has fallen to less than half what it once was. Measurements of 2.5 million galaxies show why star formation is declining – and it isn’t fuel.
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Why the Human Brain Develops So Slowly: Years, Not Weeks
Why the human brain develops so slowly: brain cells that finish in about three weeks in mice take four to eight years in people, and the delay may be the point.
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Buried a Mile Down, One Dark Matter Signal Nobody Can Explain
A dark matter signal turned up in LZ data with about a 0.5% chance of being ordinary background. The team that found it spent months trying to disprove it.
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Super-Puff Planets: As Big as Jupiter, Almost Empty
Super-puff planets TOI-791 b and c are the size of Jupiter with the density of candy floss. Only a nearby planet could reveal what was actually inside them.
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Neurons Break Their Own DNA to Build the Brain
Newborn neurons break their own DNA to squeeze through the growing brain, then repair it within a day — and the breaks land where they can be afforded.
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Diamond Can Generate Electricity — But Only If It’s Flawed
Can diamond generate electricity? For a century physics said no. It can — but only the flawed kind. The perfect crystal still produces nothing at all.
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Cascadia Megaquake: Why Oregon Could Shake Harder
A Cascadia megaquake could shake northern Oregon harder than estimated. The plate underneath sits about 5 km shallower than anyone thought — here is why.
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HIV Cure in Newborns? What the Monkey Study Actually Found
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.