Scientists just named the devil flower, a black bloom that lives almost entirely underground in Thailand and makes no food of its own. Fewer than 50 exist.
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Heart and Kidney Disease: Two Organs, One Loop Nobody Was Watching
Heart and kidney disease speed each other up. New European guidelines tell every heart patient to get two cheap, ordinary tests nobody was ordering yet.
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Dark Matter Detector Caught One Event It Can’t Explain
A dark matter detector a mile underground caught one event it cannot explain — and the physicists still refuse to call it a discovery. Here is why that matters.
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New Frog Species in Ecuador Was Filed Under the Wrong Name
A new frog species in Ecuador is loud, common and everywhere, yet it carried a name belonging to a different frog. A jar in London finally broke the mix-up.
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The Peat Fires Under Indonesia Won’t Stop Until It Rains
Indonesia’s peat fires burn underground for months, and satellites can barely see them. The reason they can burn at all was decided almost thirty years ago.
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Arthritis Before Birth: Why Some Joints Are Vulnerable From the Start
Arthritis before birth: Oxford researchers found the finger joints arthritis attacks are built differently in the womb. What that means for self-blame.
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Mars Hidden Magma System Found 24 km Below the Crust
A Mars hidden magma system was found 24 km below the crust. Seismic data says the planet built a complex, layered crust with no plate tectonics at all.
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Stroke Brain Repair: The Gap Needed Scaffolding First
Stroke brain repair stalls because the damage leaves nothing to grow along. Duke filled the gap with a scaffold in mice, and the immune cells surprised them.
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Sea Squirt Anti-Aging: What the Study Actually Found
Sea squirt anti-aging headlines are everywhere right now. The study behind them was published in 2022, ran only in mice, and its authors added a caveat.
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Living Transistors: MIT’s Bacteria Compute in 8 Hours
MIT built living transistors from bacteria that really compute — but each calculation takes eight hours. Here is what that slowness quietly reveals about life.