A 2026 study says the hobbit humans of Flores scavenged what Komodo dragons left behind. But the bones point to a far smaller daily meal than expected.
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Why Power Grids Are More Stable When Parts Don’t Match
A Science study found what makes power grids more stable is not matching parts but small differences between them. The catch is the part that matters.
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What Do Neurons Look Like? Not the Textbook’s Smooth Tube
What do neurons look like? Freeze brain tissue instead of drying it and the smooth textbook cable turns into a string of pearls. Scientists are arguing.
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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope May Now Last 22 Years. Here’s the Real Reason.
The Roman Space Telescope used 18 kg of a 200 kg fuel budget on its first course fix. Why it may now last 22 years, and the quiet margin almost everyone missed.
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What Is the Firmament in the Bible? A Word Beaten Out Like Metal
What is the firmament in the Bible? The Hebrew raqia comes from a verb for beating out metal. Here is what Genesis 1 and Psalm 19 actually claim about the sky.
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Death-Resistant Cells: The Ones That Almost Died Rebuilt the Tissue
Death-resistant cells rebuilt nearly half of damaged fly tissue in 48 hours. The surprise: they had already started to die. What it means, and what it doesn’t.
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Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? Your Brain Saw It Coming
Why can’t you tickle yourself? Your brain predicts your own touch and turns it down. But add a fifth of a second of delay, and the tickle comes right back.
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Why Do We Sigh? Your Lungs Need One Every Five Minutes
Why do we sigh? Your lungs need a deep sigh about every five minutes to reopen tiny air sacs. Here’s what science knows, and the part it still can’t explain.
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Liquid Nitrogen on Pluto? The Clue Hiding in Its Heart for 11 Years
Liquid nitrogen on Pluto? Photos New Horizons took in 2015 show dark cracks in its heart-shaped glacier that may be signs of liquid seeping up from below.
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DNA Damage and Aging: When the Body’s Alarm Does the Harm
DNA damage and aging: in a rare fast-aging disease, a fish study found the body’s alarm about broken DNA did much of the harm. What it found, what it didn’t.