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Museums and Theaters Linked to 3 Years Slower Aging
Regular museum and theater visits were tied to a biological age nearly 3 years younger than non-attendees, in a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study from Japan.
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New Colobus Monkey Species Discovered in DR Congo Forest
Scientists confirm Colobus congoensis — a new African monkey species hidden in DR Congo for decades, with distinctive pinkish-orange lips unlike any known primate.
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New Blood Test Detects Womb Cancer With 99% Accuracy
The PinPoint AI test, trialled on 16,481 women in Yorkshire, could spare thousands from invasive ultrasound exams while detecting gynaecological cancer with near-perfect reliability.
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New England Forests Called Greatest Recovery in History
Scientists at the Woodwell Climate Research Center say New England's comeback — from 90% deforested to 60% forested today — is the most remarkable forest recovery ever recorded.
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Rubin Observatory Begins 10-Year Cosmic Survey
The world's most powerful survey telescope opened its eye on the southern sky on June 30 — beginning a 10-year census of billions of stars and galaxies.
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31 Oldest Quasars Ever Found: Universe Was Just 5% Its Age
ESA's Euclid telescope discovered 31 ancient quasars — two formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, the oldest ever observed, shining with the light of a trillion suns.
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Frog Gut Bacterium Wipes Out Colorectal Tumors in Mice
Researchers in Japan isolated a naturally occurring gut bacterium from tree frogs — and a single injection eliminated all colorectal tumors in mice, with no recurrence.
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Harvard Turns a Silicon Chip Into a DNA Writing Machine
A new Harvard-led chip can synthesize 64 DNA sequences at once using water and enzymes instead of harsh solvents, opening a cleaner path to biotech-grade DNA.
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Astronomers Catch a Magnetar Being Born for the First Time
A distant supernova's strange "chirping" signal has confirmed a decades-old theory — the ultra-magnetic corpses of massive stars can power the brightest explosions in the universe.
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Turkish Cave Shows Neanderthals and Humans Shared Culture for 20,000 Years
A new PNAS study of Üçağızlı II Cave in southern Turkey finds that Neanderthals and early modern humans made the same style of stone tools across 20,000 years — evidence of long, peaceful cultural continuity.
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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.