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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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What Are Quasicrystals and Why They Broke Science Science

What Are Quasicrystals and Why They Broke Science

Quasicrystals are materials with atoms arranged in ordered but never-repeating patterns, defying the rules of classical crystallography. From a ridicu...

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How Lab-Grown Organs Work—and Why Medicine Needs Them Science

How Lab-Grown Organs Work—and Why Medicine Needs Them

Tissue engineering combines scaffolds, living cells, and bioprinting to build replacement organs in the lab, offering hope for the more than 100,000 p...

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How Male Birth Control Works—and Why It Took So Long Science

How Male Birth Control Works—and Why It Took So Long

After decades of false starts, male contraceptives are finally reaching clinical trials. Here's how the leading candidates work, the biological hurdle...

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How Liquid Biopsy Works—and Why It Could Change Cancer Detection Science

How Liquid Biopsy Works—and Why It Could Change Cancer Detection

Liquid biopsy analyzes fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to screen for dozens of cancers from a...

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How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works Science

How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works

Scientists have mapped a dedicated brain circuit that drives chronic pain separately from acute pain, opening the door to targeted treatments that cou...

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