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How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors Science

How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors

Scientists mapped cancer genetics across nearly 500 cat tumors and found striking overlaps with human cancers, opening new paths for treatments that c...

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How Caffeine Protects the Brain From Dementia Science

How Caffeine Protects the Brain From Dementia

Scientists have identified multiple mechanisms through which caffeine shields the brain from cognitive decline, from blocking adenosine receptors to r...

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How Spacewalks Work—and Why They're So Risky Science

How Spacewalks Work—and Why They're So Risky

Every time an astronaut floats outside a spacecraft, months of preparation and layers of life-saving technology stand between them and the void. Here'...

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How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning Science

How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning

Tropical peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests combined, yet wildfires in these ecosystems have reached a 2,000-year high. Here's h...

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How Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere Science

How Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere

Billions of years ago, Mars had rivers, lakes, and a thick atmosphere. Today it is a frozen desert. The culprit is the solar wind—and the loss of the...

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How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters Science

How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters

New research overturns the image of sharks as solitary killers. From bull sharks in Fiji to lemon sharks in the Bahamas, science reveals that many spe...

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How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch Science

How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch

De novo protein design lets scientists build entirely new proteins that never existed in nature—unlocking potential breakthroughs in medicine, vaccine...

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How the LHCb Experiment Discovers New Subatomic Particles Science

How the LHCb Experiment Discovers New Subatomic Particles

CERN's LHCb detector has confirmed dozens of never-before-seen particles, including exotic baryons with two charm quarks. Here is how the machine work...

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How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun Science

How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun

Long before modern birds perfected the art of brooding, oviraptor dinosaurs used a remarkable combination of body heat and solar warmth to incubate th...

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How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine Science

How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine

Gene therapy targets the genetic root cause of disease by adding, silencing, or editing faulty DNA inside a patient's own cells. Here is how it works,...

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How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters Science

How Hair Follicles Work—and Why Growing Them Matters

Hair follicles are tiny, highly sophisticated organs that drive every strand on your body. Scientists have now grown fully functional ones in a lab fo...

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ADHD Brain Briefly 'Falls Asleep' During Demanding Tasks Science

ADHD Brain Briefly 'Falls Asleep' During Demanding Tasks

A new study from Monash University and the Paris Brain Institute reveals that the ADHD brain slips into brief sleep-like episodes during demanding tas...

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