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Wildflowers That Eat Lead: The Pansies Cleaning Up Old British Mines
A rare class of UK wildflowers known as metallophytes is quietly pulling lead, zinc and cadmium out of old mining soils — and saving councils millions in remediation costs.
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Critically Endangered Mountain Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Kenya
Trail cameras have captured fresh footage of mountain bongos — one of the world's rarest forest antelopes — in a stretch of Kenyan highlands where they were feared extinct, a major win for a species reduced to fewer than 100 wild animals.
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JWST Solves Saturn's 20-Year Spin Mystery: It's the Aurora
James Webb Telescope data shows Saturn's shifting rotation rate isn't the planet — it's a self-sustaining cycle of auroras, winds, and electrical currents driving its upper atmosphere.
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Japanese Scientists Build Vitamin K That Helps the Brain Regrow Lost Neurons
Researchers in Japan engineered a vitamin K compound that triples the rate at which neural stem cells become working neurons, opening a possible path to regenerative therapies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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Texas A&M Nasal Spray Reverses Brain Aging in Just Two Doses
A two-dose intranasal therapy from Texas A&M cut chronic brain inflammation, restored mitochondrial energy, and improved memory — pointing toward a non-invasive route to treating cognitive decline.
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100-Million-Year-Old Bug Found in Amber With Crab-Like Claws
Scientists at LMU Munich identified a brand-new fossil insect preserved in Myanmar amber with grasping pincers more like a crab's than anything seen in modern bugs — and named it after the K-pop group Stray Kids.
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Asthma Drug Montelukast May Fight Aggressive Cancers, Study Finds
Northwestern researchers found that a common asthma medication can switch off the molecule tumors use to evade the immune system, restoring response to immunotherapy in tough cancers.
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Solar Cells Just Hit 130% Efficiency — Breaking a Long-Standing Limit
Scientists in Japan and Germany used a molybdenum "spin-flip" emitter to harvest extra energy from sunlight through singlet fission, reaching a quantum yield of about 130% — past the long-standing Shockley-Queisser ceiling.
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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.