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Perovskite-CIGS Solar Cell Hits Record 25.5% Efficiency
German researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin certified a 25.5% power conversion efficiency for a perovskite-CIGS tandem cell — with in-house tests already pushing 27.5%.
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Turtle Raised in a Massachusetts Classroom Just Became a Grandmother
A Blanding's turtle hatched in a school program in 2010 has now produced offspring of her own, marking the first second-generation release in a 20-year conservation effort.
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Scientists Discover a New Ladybird Species — On a Tree Outside Their Own Lab
Researchers combing 1,700 specimens across Japan turned up a previously unknown ladybird beetle — living, all along, on a pine tree beside their own university building in Fukuoka.
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JWST Cracks the 'Pink Planet' Mystery: Salt Clouds 57 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally peered inside GJ 504b, a strange pink-hued world orbiting a sun-like star, and found something never confirmed before in such an object: skies laced with salt.
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Brazil Ocean Expedition Discovers 31 New Species in Just Two Weeks
Researchers aboard the Falkor (too) used a new laser microscope to catalogue 31 new midwater species — including jellyfish, comb jellies and giant single-celled rhizarians — in record time.
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JUNO Neutrino Detector Delivers Sharpest-Ever Measurement of Particle Oscillation
China's 20,000-ton Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory has cut the uncertainty on two key neutrino parameters by 1.6× — and it's only been collecting data for 59 days.
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Duke and IonQ Link 3 Quantum Computers Over a Photonic Network
Researchers entangled three remote trapped-ion qubits across a photonic network, clearing a long-standing barrier on the path to modular quantum computers.
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World''s Largest Scorpion Identified From 415-Million-Year-Old Fossils
A meter-long predator with 16-cm pincers stalked Britain''s ancient floodplains, scientists at London''s Natural History Museum and the University of Manchester confirm.
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New 'Ballista' Spider Builds Spring-Loaded Trap to Catch Ants
Discovered in North Queensland's rainforests, the newly described spider weaves a catapult-like silk web that flings a single ant species into the air before reeling it in.
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Four New Chameleon Species Found on Mozambique's 'Sky Islands'
Scientists describe four previously unknown sylvan chameleons, each living on its own isolated mountaintop forest in northern Mozambique — an unmistakable signature of evolution in action.
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These Tropical Butterflies Live 25x Longer Than Their Cousins
A new Nature Communications study finds Heliconius hewitsoni lives up to 348 days — and barely shows physical decline with age, opening a new window into healthy aging.
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Superconductor Breakthrough: Nanoscale Trick Could Slash Electronics Energy Use
Researchers at Chalmers used nanoscale ridges in the substrate to dramatically boost superconductivity in ultrathin films, opening a path to far more efficient electronics.
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Scientists Find Hidden Weakness in PFAS 'Forever Chemicals'
Researchers at Aarhus University identified hydrogen radicals as the key force that can break PFAS apart using only intense UV light — no added chemicals required.
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New Alzheimer's Drug Slows Brain Damage and Extends Life in Mice
Researchers identified a fresh Alzheimer's target inside brain cells and built an experimental compound that, in mice, reduced nerve-cell loss and helped the animals live longer.
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China's JUNO Detector Cracks Neutrino Puzzle in First 59 Days of Data
The world's largest liquid scintillator detector, buried 700 meters underground, just delivered the most precise measurement yet of how ghostly neutrinos shift identities.
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AI-Designed Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Passes First Human Trial
A needle-free vaccine designed entirely by artificial intelligence has cleared its first human safety trial — and triggered immune responses against multiple coronaviruses at once.
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Mouse With Severed Spinal Cord Regains Normal Movement in Lab Test
A new combination of stem cells and biomaterials helped mice walk again after a complete spinal cord cut, raising hopes for future human spinal-injury therapies.
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Live White Abalone Spotted in Channel Islands for First Time in 5 Years
NOAA divers surveying California's Channel Islands found a single live white abalone — the first wild sighting in five years of one of the most endangered marine animals on Earth.
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New Pancreatic Cancer Pill Nearly Doubles Survival in 500-Patient Trial
A once-daily pill called daraxonrasib pushed median survival from 6.7 to 13.2 months in advanced pancreatic cancer — the first real breakthrough in a disease long called "undruggable."
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Astronomers Detect Magnetic Fields Around Exoplanets for the First Time
Using the Very Large Telescope, astronomers measured planet-wide magnetic fields on seven hot Jupiters — a key ingredient for habitability and a first in exoplanet science.
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Caribbean Pirate-Era Shipwrecks Found and Filmed for the First Time
Researchers have located and recorded the first high-definition footage of multiple 17th- and 18th-century wrecks tied to the golden age of piracy, opening a new window onto life at sea.
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Venus, Jupiter and Mercury Will Line Up With the Moon in June
A rare June 2026 conjunction will string the solar system's two brightest planets across the sky, with Mercury and a crescent Moon joining the line on the 16th.
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Greenland Study Reveals Seaweed's Hidden Role in Locking Away Carbon
Tracking 8,000 seaweed rafts off southwest Greenland, scientists mapped a natural conveyor belt that ferries macroalgae carbon to the deep ocean for at least a century.