A new study found quitting alcohol changes the brain in ways that can raise relapse risk. Here is what the research showed, and what it says about willpower.
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Yeast Beta-Glucan Retrained Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Yeast beta-glucan retrained bone marrow stem cells in mice to fight three cancers — and the immune system half we called forgetful turned out to remember.
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Hidden Stars in Early Galaxies: 4x the Mass Expected
JWST found hidden stars in early galaxies making them up to four times more massive than astronomers thought. Here is what the missing mass really means.
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An AI Is Finding Software Bugs Faster Than Microsoft Can Fix Them
An AI model is uncovering hundreds of hidden flaws in Microsoft’s software faster than engineers can patch them — and what that reveals runs deeper than tech.
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More Than Half of People Who Try Legal Psilocybin Call It One of the Most Meaningful Experiences of Their Life
A landmark Oregon study found most people who try legal psilocybin call it a meaningful experience. Here’s what that search for meaning is really about.
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NASA Is Spending $2.6 Billion to Land on the Moon 17 Times Before Anyone Actually Lives There
NASA is spending $2.6 billion to land robots on the Moon 17 times before a single person lives there. Here is the real reason — and what it reveals about us.
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Einstein’s Biggest Blunder Was Right All Along
Einstein spent 40 years erasing his ‘biggest blunder.’ New evidence on the universe’s runaway expansion suggests he was onto something bigger than he knew.
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A Black Hole Shredded a Star With More Force Than Any Explosion Ever Recorded — And Something Survived
A black hole shredded a star with the force of 400 billion suns. Months later, scientists found something in the wreckage that shouldn’t have survived at all.
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The La Brea Toad Fossil Nobody Noticed for 94 Years
A new Ice Age toad species was just named from a La Brea Tar Pits fossil that sat ignored in a museum drawer for 94 years — and what that quietly says.
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Black Holes Older Than the Big Bang? What Scientists Found
New research suggests some black holes may be older than the Big Bang itself — and could help explain one of physics’ biggest lingering mysteries: dark matter.