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What Are Silent Synapses and How They Shape Memory Science

What Are Silent Synapses and How They Shape Memory

Silent synapses are dormant brain connections that contain NMDA receptors but lack AMPA receptors. Around 30% of synapses in the adult cortex are sile...

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What Are Quasars and How Do They Shape Galaxies? Science

What Are Quasars and How Do They Shape Galaxies?

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe, powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at galactic cores. New research shows their ra...

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What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill? Science

What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill?

Supervolcano calderas are massive craters formed when colossal eruptions drain underground magma chambers, causing the surface to collapse. Scientists...

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What Are Organoids and How They Replace Animal Testing Science

What Are Organoids and How They Replace Animal Testing

Organoids are lab-grown miniature organs derived from stem cells that mimic human tissue. As regulators phase out mandatory animal testing, these tiny...

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How Superconductors Work—and Why We Want Them Warmer Science

How Superconductors Work—and Why We Want Them Warmer

Superconductors carry electricity with zero resistance, enabling MRI machines, maglev trains, and quantum computers. Scientists are racing to make the...

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How the Brain Rewires Itself After a Stroke Science

How the Brain Rewires Itself After a Stroke

After a stroke destroys brain tissue, the brain can reroute lost functions through neuroplasticity—forming new pathways, sprouting axons, and even mak...

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How Supercooled Water Works—and Why It Has Two Liquid Phases Science

How Supercooled Water Works—and Why It Has Two Liquid Phases

Scientists have long known water behaves unlike any other liquid. The discovery of a second critical point in supercooled water finally explains why i...

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Polish Scientist Discovers 24 Species in the Depths of the Pacific Science

Polish Scientist Discovers 24 Species in the Depths of the Pacific

Dr. Anna Jażdżewska from the University of Łódź led an international team that described 24 new species of deep-sea crustaceans in the Clarion-Clipper...

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Artemis II: NASA's First Crewed Moon Mission in 53 Years Science

Artemis II: NASA's First Crewed Moon Mission in 53 Years

NASA is counting down to the April 1 launch of Artemis II, sending four astronauts around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft — the first crewed luna...

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How Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Species Science

How Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Species

From ROV dives to decades-long taxonomy backlogs, the process of finding and naming unknown ocean life is a race against extinction in Earth's last gr...

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How Helioseismology Works—Hearing Inside the Sun Science

How Helioseismology Works—Hearing Inside the Sun

Helioseismology uses millions of sound waves rippling through the Sun to map its hidden interior, much like an ultrasound scans the human body. The te...

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What Are Super-Earths and Why Scientists Hunt Them Science

What Are Super-Earths and Why Scientists Hunt Them

Super-Earths are exoplanets up to ten times Earth's mass that dominate our galaxy yet have no counterpart in our solar system. Scientists study them f...

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