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Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific Science

Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific

An international team of 16 experts has described 24 new amphipod species in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, including an entirely new superfam...

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How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It Science

How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It

Flower nectar routinely contains ethanol produced by fermenting yeasts. A new UC Berkeley survey found alcohol in 26 of 29 plant species, revealing th...

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How Lunar Bases Work—and What It Takes to Build One Science

How Lunar Bases Work—and What It Takes to Build One

Building a permanent outpost on the Moon requires solving extreme challenges from radiation and temperature swings to construction with local soil. He...

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How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain Science

How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain

Social media exploits a window of extreme neurological vulnerability in adolescents, hijacking dopamine pathways and reshaping brain structures involv...

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What Is NAD+ and Why Your Cells Need It to Age Well Science

What Is NAD+ and Why Your Cells Need It to Age Well

NAD+ is a molecule essential for energy production, DNA repair, and over 300 enzymatic reactions. Its sharp decline with age is linked to disease and...

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What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form?

Red giants are enormous, cool stars in a late stage of stellar evolution. When a star exhausts its hydrogen fuel, its core contracts while its outer l...

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Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are Science

Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are

Over 150 million people worldwide inject insulin daily. Scientists have spent a century trying to put it in a pill, but the human gut destroys the hor...

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How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits Science

How Animal Cloning Works—and Why It Has Limits

Somatic cell nuclear transfer lets scientists copy mammals from a single body cell, but new research shows cloning hits a genetic dead end. Here is ho...

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What Is Antimatter and Why Is It So Hard to Move? Science

What Is Antimatter and Why Is It So Hard to Move?

Antimatter is the mirror image of ordinary matter and annihilates on contact with it, making it the most expensive and volatile substance on Earth. He...

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Germany's Climate Protection Program: Not Enough for 2030 Science

Germany's Climate Protection Program: Not Enough for 2030

The German government has adopted its new climate protection program, but experts warn that the measures are insufficient to achieve the legally manda...

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Australia Builds World's First Quantum Battery Prototype Science

Australia Builds World's First Quantum Battery Prototype

Australian researchers from CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne have created the first proof-of-concept quantum battery that compl...

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What Are Rogue Planets and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Rogue Planets and How Do They Form?

Billions of planets drift through the Milky Way without orbiting any star. Here's how these rogue worlds form, how scientists detect them, and why som...

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