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What Is Positronium—the Atom Made of Antimatter Science

What Is Positronium—the Atom Made of Antimatter

Positronium is an exotic atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, the positron. It exists for less than a microsecond before annihilating in...

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How PCSK9 Controls Cholesterol—and Why It Matters Health

How PCSK9 Controls Cholesterol—and Why It Matters

PCSK9, a protein discovered in 2003, determines how much 'bad' cholesterol stays in your blood by destroying the very receptors that clear it away. Un...

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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Works—Cancer's Living Drug Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Works—Cancer's Living Drug

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how the process works, what it costs, and why scientists...

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How Lab-Grown Organs Work—From Scaffold to Transplant Science

How Lab-Grown Organs Work—From Scaffold to Transplant

Scientists strip donor organs of their cells, rebuild them with a patient's own tissue, and implant them without immunosuppression. Here is how the de...

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What Is NDMA—the Carcinogen in Water and Drugs Health

What Is NDMA—the Carcinogen in Water and Drugs

NDMA is a probable human carcinogen found in drinking water, processed foods, and recalled medications like Zantac. Here is how it forms, why it is da...

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How Your Sense of Smell Works—From Nose to Brain Science

How Your Sense of Smell Works—From Nose to Brain

The human olfactory system detects thousands of odors using around 400 types of receptors that create unique neural patterns, connecting directly to b...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer Before Symptoms Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer Before Symptoms

Liquid biopsies analyze fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect dozens of cancer types befo...

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How Cyclic Peptides Work—and Why They Make Better Drugs Science

How Cyclic Peptides Work—and Why They Make Better Drugs

Cyclic peptides occupy a unique niche between small-molecule pills and large biologics. By locking amino acid chains into ring shapes, scientists crea...

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How Forensic Facial Reconstruction Works—Skull to Face Science

How Forensic Facial Reconstruction Works—Skull to Face

Forensic facial reconstruction turns bare skulls into lifelike faces using tissue-depth data, anatomy, and increasingly AI. From Richard III to Pompei...

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How Organ Cryopreservation Works—and Why It Matters Science

How Organ Cryopreservation Works—and Why It Matters

Scientists are learning to freeze organs without destroying them, using vitrification and nanowarming to turn tissue into glass and bring it back. If...

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How Plants Make Sound—Ultrasonic Clicks You Can't Hear Science

How Plants Make Sound—Ultrasonic Clicks You Can't Hear

Stressed plants emit ultrasonic clicking sounds through a process called xylem cavitation. Recent research shows these clicks carry information about...

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How the Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Barrier Works Sport

How the Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Barrier Works

The two-hour marathon was once thought impossible. Here's the physiology, technology, and strategy behind running 42.195 kilometers faster than any hu...

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