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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.
Human Achievements
Focal Therapy Beats Surgery Side Effects in Prostate Trial
A 10-year trial of 3,500 men found focal therapy for prostate cancer matches surgery — and cuts the risk of serious side effects by about half.
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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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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.
Technology
New Brain-Inspired Chip From Cambridge Cuts AI Energy Use by 70%
A new memristor built from a special form of hafnium oxide can store and process information in the same place — slashing the biggest energy cost in modern AI hardware.
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Mini CRISPR Jumps From 10% to 90% Editing Efficiency
A compact CRISPR enzyme from NIH-funded UT Austin researchers is small enough to deliver inside the body — and edits genes with 9x the accuracy.
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Chemists Prove a 67-Year-Old Theory About Vitamin B1
UC Riverside researchers stabilized a reactive carbene molecule in water for the first time, confirming a 1958 hypothesis and opening the door to greener drug production.
Technology
Solar Panels That Generate Power From Raindrops? It Works.
Spanish researchers built a thin-film coating that lets solar panels harvest energy from raindrops too — a single drop generates over 100 volts.
Technology
GEN-1 Robot AI Hits 99% Reliability Folding, Packing, and Fixing Things
Generalist's new physical AI model can fold laundry, pack phones, and service vacuums at production-level accuracy — and recover from mistakes on its own.
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Scientists Discover a Hidden "Drain" Inside the Human Brain
Using advanced MRI, researchers found a previously unknown waste-removal pathway along the middle meningeal artery — a potential key to treating Alzheimer's.
Technology
New Chip-Making Machine Prints 8nm Features in a Single Step
ASML's latest EUV lithography system can pack 2.9x more transistors per chip — a leap driven by surging AI demand.
Human Achievements
Artemis II Crew Now the Farthest Humans From Earth
NASA's four astronauts have traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, surpassing Apollo 13's 55-year-old record during their loop around the Moon.
Science
Astronomers Find the Universe's Most Pristine Star
A star with less than 0.005% of the Sun's metals has been discovered drifting into the Milky Way — offering a rare window into the universe's earliest era.
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Scientists Map the Brain Circuit That Builds Muscle While You Sleep
UC Berkeley researchers identified the neural feedback loop that triggers growth hormone during deep sleep — and it could lead to new treatments for metabolic and neurological diseases.
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Artemis II Sends Astronauts to the Moon for the First Time in 54 Years
Four astronauts launched aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft on April 1, beginning a 10-day lunar flyby — humanity's first crewed trip beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17.
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Bennu Asteroid Sample Hides 3 Distinct Chemical Worlds
Nanoscale analysis of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample shows organic material and minerals grouped into three chemical regions — clues to how water once shaped the early solar system.
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Scientists Engineer a Superfood for Honeybees — and Colonies Surged 15-Fold
A University of Oxford-led team used synthetic biology to create a nutritionally complete bee supplement, and the results were dramatic: colonies produced up to 15 times more young.
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New Mass Spectrometer Prototype Can Analyze a Billion Molecules at Once
Researchers at Rockefeller University have built a revolutionary mass spectrometer prototype called MultiQ-IT that processes billions of ions simultaneously, potentially transforming drug discovery and single-cell biology.
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All Five Building Blocks of DNA Found in Asteroid Ryugu Samples
Scientists analyzing pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu have confirmed the presence of all five nucleobases essential for life — a landmark discovery suggesting the ingredients for DNA and RNA are scattered across our solar system.
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Scientists Create First Lab-Grown Oesophagus That Can Swallow
Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London have engineered the first lab-grown food pipe that successfully restores swallowing function — a breakthrough that could transform treatment for children born with life-threatening conditions.
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Webb Telescope Discovers a Bizarre 'Sulfur World' — A Brand-New Type of Exoplanet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an entirely new class of exoplanet: a sulfur-drenched world with a molten interior, just 35 light-years from Earth.
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Scientists Crack the 250-Year-Old Mystery of How Plants Make Quinine
Researchers have finally decoded the complete biosynthetic pathway that cinchona trees use to produce quinine, one of history's most important medicines — opening the door to lab-grown antimalarials.