Britain ended sugar rationing in 1953 by an accident of history. Decades later, the first 1,000 days of life turn out to still be deciding who gets sick.
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A Compound Made Mice Burn Fat Without Losing Muscle — or Eating Less
A compound called TOFA made obese mice burn fat without losing muscle or eating less. Here’s what the 18% figure means — and what it does not mean yet.
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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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Mechanical Turk Is Closing. It Was Never a Machine.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk closes September 30 after 21 years. It was named for a chess machine with a person hidden inside, and it worked exactly the same way.
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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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People Who Live Past 110 Share One Odd Immune Trait
People who live past 110 carry far more of one rare killer immune cell. Here is what the new study found, what it proves, and what it quietly does not.
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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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How Ozempic Works in the Brain: Scientists Had It Backwards
A Yale study found how Ozempic works in the brain is the reverse of what scientists assumed: it turns the hunger neurons up, not off. Here is what changed.