A new study finds free-living cells may have emerged twice on early Earth — once in bacteria, once in archaea. Here’s what that surprising pattern reveals.
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The Aging Brain Isn’t as Isolated as We Thought
Stanford scientists found the aging brain welcomes reinforcements from the rest of the body, overturning what we thought we knew about how isolated it is.
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Your Aging Brain Was Never Built to Wall Itself Off
New research shows the aging brain lets outside cells in earlier than we thought — evidence it was never designed to seal itself off from connection.
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Scientists Just Detected a Nuclear Reactor’s Ghostly Afterglow
A shut-down nuclear reactor kept sending out a faint, real signal for weeks after the power went off completely. Here’s what scientists actually found there.
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A Single Brain Cell Just Out-Computed an AI Network
A new study found a single brain cell can out-compute an entire AI network. Here’s what that discovery about your brain reveals about how you were made.
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The Black Hole Star Too Bright to Exist
Astronomers just found a “black hole star” from 660 million years after the Big Bang, shining far brighter than physics says it should. Here’s what it means.
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Scientists Found the Gene That Architects Your Heart’s DNA
A single gene named TBX5 folds your heart cell’s DNA into a precise 3D shape — and losing even one copy unravels it. Here’s what scientists just found.
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Sheep’s Wool Just Became a Bone-Healing Breakthrough
Scientists in London turned sheep’s wool, a farming byproduct nobody wants, into a scaffold that regrows bone better than today’s standard. Here’s how.
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Two Bandicoot Bloodlines Were Split for 10,000 Years. Scientists Just Reunited Them.
Two bandicoot populations, isolated from each other for over 10,000 years, have just been reunited in the largest genetic rescue mission ever attempted.
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Logic and Language Live in Different Parts of the Brain
MIT scientists just proved logic and language live in separate parts of the brain — and a 2,000-year-old word already united what they just split apart.