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How mRNA Cancer Vaccines Work—and Why They Matter Science

How mRNA Cancer Vaccines Work—and Why They Matter

The same mRNA technology behind COVID-19 shots is now being turned against cancer. Personalized therapeutic vaccines teach a patient's immune system t...

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How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain Science

How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain

Up to 70% of people with autism also have ADHD. New brain-imaging and genetic research reveals why these two conditions so often travel together—and w...

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How Codon Bias Works—DNA's Hidden Second Code Science

How Codon Bias Works—DNA's Hidden Second Code

The genetic code has 64 codons but only 20 amino acids, and scientists long assumed the 'extra' codons were interchangeable. New research reveals cell...

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How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars Science

How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars

Artificial light at night creates skyglow, disrupts wildlife, suppresses melatonin, and has brightened Earth's nights by 16% since 2014. Here's how it...

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How Cluster Munitions Work—and Why 112 Nations Ban Them Science

How Cluster Munitions Work—and Why 112 Nations Ban Them

Cluster munitions scatter hundreds of explosive submunitions across wide areas. Their high failure rates turn battlefields into minefields for decades...

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How Scientists Map the Brain's Wiring Science

How Scientists Map the Brain's Wiring

Connectomics is the science of mapping every neural connection in a brain. From the 302-neuron worm mapped in the 1980s to the fruit fly's 130,000 neu...

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How the Brain's Glymphatic System Cleans Itself Science

How the Brain's Glymphatic System Cleans Itself

The glymphatic system is a recently discovered waste-clearance network that flushes toxic proteins from the brain during sleep, with major implication...

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How Humans First Reached Australia by Sea 60,000 Years Ago Science

How Humans First Reached Australia by Sea 60,000 Years Ago

Aboriginal Australians are Earth's oldest civilization outside Africa. Reaching their continent required crossing open ocean on simple rafts — the ear...

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What Are PFAS and Why Are They Called Forever Chemicals? Science

What Are PFAS and Why Are They Called Forever Chemicals?

PFAS are a vast family of synthetic chemicals found in everything from cookware to drinking water. Their near-indestructible carbon-fluorine bonds let...

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How Pretend Play Works—and Why Apes Do It Too Science

How Pretend Play Works—and Why Apes Do It Too

Pretend play was long considered uniquely human, but a landmark bonobo study suggests imagination evolved millions of years ago. Here's how make-belie...

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How Quantum Decoherence Works—and Why It Limits Computing Science

How Quantum Decoherence Works—and Why It Limits Computing

Quantum decoherence is the process by which qubits lose their quantum properties through environmental interaction, and it remains the single biggest...

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How De Novo Protein Design Works—and Why It Matters Science

How De Novo Protein Design Works—and Why It Matters

Scientists can now design entirely new proteins from scratch using AI tools like RFdiffusion, opening doors to custom medicines, enzymes, and material...

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