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Engineered Gum Clears 93% of HPV in Clinical Trials
A specially designed chewing gum wiped out 93% of HPV and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer—while leaving beneficial mouth microbes intact.
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Finland's Sand Battery Cuts Town Emissions by 70%
In Pornainen, Finland, a 13-meter silo packed with 2,000 tonnes of crushed soapstone now stores renewable heat for weeks, eliminating the town's oil use entirely.
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Two Super-Puff Planets Found Lighter Than Cotton Candy
Oxford astronomers confirmed two gas giant planets less dense than cotton candy — among the least dense worlds ever found — with citizen scientists and NASA's TESS telescope leading the way.
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Ancient Mohenjo-daro Grew More Equal as It Prospered
New research finds that as Mohenjo-daro flourished 4,000 years ago, its wealth gap actually shrank — offering ancient lessons in equitable city design and shared prosperity.
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Scientists Revive a Last-Resort Antibiotic Against Superbugs
Instead of developing an entirely new antibiotic, researchers paired vancomycin with a compound that restores its power against resistant bacteria.
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First Moon Outside Our Solar System Detected by VLT
Scientists using ESO's Very Large Telescope found a Jupiter-sized body orbiting a brown dwarf — the most compelling exomoon detection ever made.
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Synthetic Furs Are Helping Zambia's Leopards Bounce Back
A Panthera-led switch from real to synthetic leopard skins in traditional Zambian ceremonies could save over 1,000 leopards over the next decade, new research shows.
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Scientists Can Now Predict Solar Storms Years in Advance
A newly found 'switch-off' point in the Sun's 11-year cycle lets scientists spot when the most violent space weather is coming — years before it arrives, not just hours.
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Scientists Find 8 Universal Building Blocks in Birdsong
A study analyzing 116,000 songs from 3,000+ species reveals all birdsong is built from just 8 fundamental sound types — a hidden acoustic grammar linking every songbird on Earth.
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32 Wild Avocado Varieties Found in Nicaragua's Rainforest
Researchers from Texas A&M found 32 genetically distinct avocado landraces in Nicaragua, some immune to the root rot disease threatening the global Hass crop.
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First Atmosphere Found on Habitable-Zone World LHS 1140b
Scientists detected helium escaping from rocky exoplanet LHS 1140b—48 light-years away in its star's habitable zone—making it a prime candidate for life.
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Frogs Are Beating the Fungus That Nearly Wiped Them Out
Scientists discover that some frog populations recovering from the deadly chytrid fungus are passing on powerful immune defenses to the next generation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.