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What Are Mars Boxwork Formations and Why They Matter Science

What Are Mars Boxwork Formations and Why They Matter

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring eerie spider-web-like rock structures on Mars called boxwork formations. Here's what they are, how they form...

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What Is Homo habilis and How Did It Shape Human Evolution Science

What Is Homo habilis and How Did It Shape Human Evolution

Homo habilis—'handy man'—is one of the oldest known members of the human genus, living roughly 2.4 to 1.65 million years ago. Combining ape-like body...

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Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging Science

Fatty Acids Kill Senescent Cells, Could Slow Aging

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids that selectively destroy senescent cells via ferropt...

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Depression Starts in the Mitochondria, Study Finds Health

Depression Starts in the Mitochondria, Study Finds

Researchers from the University of Queensland and Minnesota have found that young adults with major depressive disorder show a distinctive pattern of...

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How Genetics Determines How Long You Live Health

How Genetics Determines How Long You Live

New research shows genes account for roughly half of human lifespan variation—far more than scientists believed. Here is what the science of longevity...

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How Temperature Limits Every Living Thing on Earth Science

How Temperature Limits Every Living Thing on Earth

Scientists have uncovered a universal temperature rule that governs all life—from deep-sea bacteria to tropical insects—revealing why evolution cannot...

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How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly Health

How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly

Metastasis — the spread of cancer from its original site to distant organs — accounts for more than 90% of cancer deaths. Here is how the process work...

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How the Sun Migrated Across the Milky Way Science

How the Sun Migrated Across the Milky Way

New research reveals the Sun traveled roughly 10,000 light-years outward from the Milky Way's dangerous inner core billions of years ago — a journey t...

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What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine Science

What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine

Chirality—the mirror-image 'handedness' of molecules—is one of chemistry's most consequential properties. It explains a 1960s drug disaster, drives mo...

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Oval Orbit Reveals Exotic Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger Science

Oval Orbit Reveals Exotic Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that a neutron star and a black hole spiraled into each other on an elliptical — not circular — orbit, o...

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Blood Protein Shapes Reveal Alzheimer's Years Early Health

Blood Protein Shapes Reveal Alzheimer's Years Early

A landmark study published in Nature Aging has identified structural changes in three blood proteins that can detect Alzheimer's disease years before...

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How Brain Energy Failure Triggers Depression Health

How Brain Energy Failure Triggers Depression

Scientists are finding that depression may begin not as a chemical imbalance but as an energy crisis inside brain cells — where mitochondria, the cell...

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