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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Photon Teleported Between Quantum Dots Across 270 Meters
A European team beamed a photon's quantum state between two separate quantum dots over a 270-metre free-space link — a real step toward 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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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.