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Scientists Watch an AI Evolve a Learning Rule No Human Ever Imagined
For most of AI’s history, machines have not truly “figured things out” on their own. They have learned — but…
Why Your Gray Hair Might Be a Sign Your Body Just Prevented Cancer
Every day, the cells in our bodies are bombarded by harmful influences — ultraviolet rays from sunlight, environmental toxins, metabolic…
Liver Cancer Doesn’t Spread Alone — It Forces Immune Cells to Help, Study Reveals
Liver cancer is one of the deadliest cancers on Earth, not because it grows fast but because it spreads silently.…
No Sugar Before Age 2 Could Delay Heart Disease by Years, Study Suggests
A new study published in The BMJ suggests that the human body does not easily forget what is eaten in…
Your Brain Doesn’t Fully Shut Down When You Sleep — New Study Reveals the Secret
Every night, the brain performs a delicate and mysterious maneuver: it withdraws from conscious life without ever going fully offline.…
Scientists Watch Deadly Lung Bug Evolve Live Inside Patients — And Finally Understand Why It Won’t Die
Chronic lung infections do not always announce themselves with drama. Sometimes they live quietly for years, weakening patients slowly, surviving…
This Open-Source AI Can See Brain Damage Before Doctors Can
The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the known universe. Hundreds of billions of neurons…
Napoleon’s Army Didn’t Die From Typhus After All — Ancient DNA Just Revealed a Different Killer
In the summer of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte crossed into Russia with an army so vast that it seemed to guarantee…
New Study Claims Entanglement No Longer Proves Gravity Is Quantum — Did We Misread Feynman?
For more than a century, physics has been haunted by a stubborn fracture at its foundation. On one side stands…
Quantum Chip Beats the World’s Fastest Supercomputer by 13,000× — and Solves a Real Physics Problem
For years, quantum computing has lived in the realm of promise — a breathtaking theory waiting to prove its worth…
Scientists Build First “X-Ray” of RNA Droplets — Could This Crack the Code of ALS and Cancer?
Inside every living cell, there is no stillness. Molecules ricochet and fold and collide; proteins twist into working shapes, RNAs…
Scientists Train Shiitake Mushrooms to Store Digital Memory — Could Your Next Chip Be Alive?
For decades, the computing world has been guided by the steady shrinking of metal-based hardware — more transistors packed onto…
Astronomers Stunned: Three Earth-Sized Worlds Found Orbiting a Double Sun System
In a quiet corner of the galaxy, 190 light-years from Earth, astronomers have uncovered something that until recently seemed nearly…
Scientists Found the Brain’s “Missing Half” — And It’s Not Neurons
For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a story about neurons. These electrically…
Scientists Just Upended What We Thought We Knew About Gluten — Millions May Have Been Misled
For years, millions of people have avoided gluten believing it was the culprit behind their gut pain, fatigue, headaches, and…
Scientists Thought This Fat Enzyme Just Burned Calories — Then They Found It Living a Secret Second Life in the Nucleus
For decades, hormone-sensitive lipase — HSL — has been cast in a simple role: the molecule that gives fat cells…
Scientists Say Sweeteners May Actually Help Keep Weight Off — And Your Gut Bugs Agree
Obesity rates continue to climb in nearly every region of the world, raising the risks of type 2 diabetes, liver…
New Gene Edit Can Repair Dozens of Mutations at Once — Not Just One — Ending the One-Patient-One-Cure Era
For decades, gene therapy has carried a heavy limitation: it tends to work best on simple problems — a single…
No Doctors, No Tools: These Ants Double Survival by Biting Off Limbs
Deep inside an ant colony, war and work leave bodies damaged. Legs are crushed in conflicts with rival insects or…
Cosmic Silence Solves a Mystery? Neutrino Hunt Finds “Nothing” — and That Changes Everything
The universe is filled with bullets of unimaginable energy — lone protons, electrons, and ghost-like neutrinos traveling through space at…
Archaeologists Unearth a Lost Scythian Tomb in Siberia—And Its Secrets Are Breathtaking
Deep in the Uyuk River Valley of southern Siberia, where mountain winds sweep across vast steppes and silence hangs heavy…