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How Scientists Read Erased Ancient Texts With X-Rays Science

How Scientists Read Erased Ancient Texts With X-Rays

Palimpsests — manuscripts scraped clean and rewritten centuries ago — hide lost works by history's greatest minds. Modern imaging technologies, from m...

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How Epigenetic Reprogramming Could Reverse Aging Science

How Epigenetic Reprogramming Could Reverse Aging

Scientists are testing whether partially resetting the chemical tags on DNA can make old cells act young again, opening the door to therapies that rev...

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How Sleeping Sickness Parasites Outsmart Your Immune System Science

How Sleeping Sickness Parasites Outsmart Your Immune System

African trypanosomes evade the human immune system by constantly switching their protein coat, a molecular disguise act that has baffled scientists fo...

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What Is the Cambrian Explosion and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Cambrian Explosion and Why It Matters

Around 538 million years ago, nearly every major animal group appeared in the fossil record within a geological instant. Here is how the Cambrian Expl...

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How Tokamak Fusion Reactors Work—and How Close We Are Science

How Tokamak Fusion Reactors Work—and How Close We Are

Tokamaks use powerful magnetic fields to confine superheated plasma in a donut-shaped chamber, replicating the energy process that powers the sun. Wit...

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How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines Science

How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines

Oyster reefs are among the most valuable yet imperiled marine ecosystems on Earth. This explainer covers how oysters build living reefs, why these str...

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What Is Universal Grammar and Do All Languages Share It? Science

What Is Universal Grammar and Do All Languages Share It?

Linguists have debated for decades whether all human languages share a hidden blueprint. A landmark study of 1,700 languages offers new answers about...

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How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Charge Faster Science

How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Charge Faster

Quantum batteries use superposition and entanglement to store energy, and counterintuitively charge faster as they grow larger. Here's how the technol...

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Artemis II Crew Shatters Apollo 13 Distance Record Science

Artemis II Crew Shatters Apollo 13 Distance Record

NASA's Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft reached a record 252,756 miles from Earth on April 6, surpassing Apollo 13's 56-year-old record by...

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How Pharming Works—Drugs From Genetically Modified Animals Science

How Pharming Works—Drugs From Genetically Modified Animals

Pharming uses genetically engineered animals like goats and chickens to produce human therapeutic proteins in their milk or eggs, offering a cheaper a...

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How Voice Biomarkers Detect Disease From Speech Science

How Voice Biomarkers Detect Disease From Speech

AI-powered voice analysis can identify signs of Parkinson's, depression, diabetes, and heart disease from short speech samples — a growing field that...

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How Mu2e Hunts for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Science

How Mu2e Hunts for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Fermilab's Mu2e experiment aims to catch a muon converting into an electron without emitting neutrinos—a process forbidden by the Standard Model that...

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