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Humpback Whale Travels 15,100 km — A New Migration World Record
A single whale, photographed 22 years apart in Brazil and Australia, has set the longest documented humpback journey in history — a 15,100 km swim across two oceans.
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26 Chicks Hatch From the World's First Artificial Eggs
Colossal Biosciences hatched live chickens inside 3D-printed titanium shells — a breakthrough that could help bring back the giant moa.
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Plant Last Seen in 1967 Rediscovered in Australian Outback by Chance Photo
Bird bander Aaron Bean uploaded a shrub photo to iNaturalist — and a botanist instantly recognized Ptilotus senarius, missing for nearly six decades.
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Platinum-Free Catalyst Makes Clean Hydrogen Cheaper and More Durable
Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis built a hydrogen catalyst that ditches expensive platinum and ran for over 1,000 hours at industrial current densities.
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Scientists Find 'Holy Grail' Genes That Could Help Humans Regrow Limbs
A new PNAS study comparing axolotls, zebrafish and mice identified shared "SP genes" that drive regeneration — pointing toward future therapies that could restore lost human tissue.
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Physicists Crack 25-Year Quantum Puzzle With New W-State Detector
A Japanese team built the first single-shot measurement for the elusive W state, solving a problem that had stumped quantum optics labs since the late 1990s.
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McGill Scientists Find Hidden 'Switch' That Turns On Fat Burning
Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a molecular switch in brown fat that ramps up calorie burning in mice — and it could also lead to better treatments for bone disease.
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JUPITER Supercomputer Sets World Record Simulating 50 Qubits
Europe's first exascale supercomputer fully simulated a 50-qubit universal quantum computer for the first time, beating the previous record of 48 and giving researchers a new sandbox for testing quantum algorithms.
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Naked Mole Rat Gene Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier
University of Rochester researchers moved a longevity gene from naked mole rats into mice — and the modified animals lived 4.4% longer with less cancer and less inflammation.
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JWST Just Read the Surface of a Distant Planet for the First Time
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly characterize the rocky surface of LHS 3844 b — a tidally locked super-Earth 49 light-years away — confirming it is a barren, atmosphere-free world.
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Astronomers Find 27 New "Tatooine" Planets Orbiting Two Suns
A new survey announced on Star Wars Day more than doubles the known count of planets orbiting two stars at once — jumping the catalog from 18 to 45.
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Perovskite Solar Cells Hit 98% Efficiency After 1,200 Hours of Heat Stress
Rice University engineers cracked the longstanding "yellow phase" durability problem, pushing perovskite photovoltaics one major step closer to mass commercial use.
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Scientists Turn Plastic Trash Into Clean Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight
A new study from the University of Adelaide maps a sunlight-driven path to convert plastic waste into hydrogen and high-value chemicals — tackling pollution and clean energy in one step.
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Oxford Achieves First-Ever 'Quadsqueezing' Quantum Breakthrough
Using a single trapped ion, Oxford physicists demonstrated a fourth-order quantum effect that was once thought too fragile to observe — opening a new toolkit for sensing, simulation, and computing.
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Scientists Teleport a Photon Between Quantum Dots Across 270 Meters
A European team transferred a photon's quantum state between two independent quantum dots over a 270-metre free-space link, clearing a major hurdle on the road to a quantum internet.
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Graphene Oxide Kills Drug-Resistant Superbugs but Spares Human Cells
KAIST scientists pinned down the molecular trick that lets ultra-thin graphene sheets shred bacterial membranes while leaving our own cells untouched — a long-sought lead in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
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MIT Discovers Chaotic Laser Light Self-Organizes Into a Pencil Beam
Researchers at MIT found that messy, high-power laser light fired down an optical fiber can spontaneously focus itself — opening a faster path to 3D imaging of the blood–brain barrier.
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Mars Rover Finds Most Diverse Set of Organic Molecules Ever Detected
NASA's Curiosity rover has identified seven organic compounds — five never seen before on Mars — in a dried lakebed, the richest haul of carbon chemistry yet found on the Red Planet.
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Scientists Find Preserved Blood Vessels Inside a 66-Million-Year-Old T. Rex
High-powered X-ray imaging of the largest T. rex ever found revealed an intact network of blood vessels in a healed rib — a rare glimpse of dinosaur biology in action.
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New Bright-Green Pitviper Discovered in China's Giant Panda National Park
Researchers named the new Sichuan snake species Trimeresurus lii — the Huaxi Green Pitviper — honoring the philosopher Laozi after DNA analysis revealed it had hidden in plain sight for decades.
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New Camera Captures Events Unfolding in Trillionths of a Second
Chinese researchers unveiled an imaging method that captures both brightness and structural change in a single shot at femtosecond speeds — opening a new window on ultrafast science.
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Scientists Discover 24 New Deep-Sea Species, Including Entirely New Family of Life
Researchers exploring 4,000 meters below the Pacific found two dozen new creatures — one so unique it belongs to a previously unknown branch of the animal kingdom.
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Muon g-2 Physicists Win $3M Breakthrough Prize for Precision Record
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors hundreds of scientists at CERN, Brookhaven and Fermilab for measuring the muon's magnetic moment to unprecedented precision.