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Faking blood, the future of batteries and an OpenAI arrest
In February 2007, a US military helicopter carrying blood to a field hospital in Iraq was shot down. All seven crew members were killed. Nearly two decades later,…
NASA’s Webb spots signs of Mars-sized worlds smashing together
Only about 1% of young stars show any sign of the violent phase astronomers call an extreme debris disk. Theory says that number should be higher. A new…
Physicists are about to drop exotic matter to test Einstein’s gravity
Muons live for about 2.2 microseconds. That’s the entire window a team at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute has to build an atom out of one,…
Have we found alien life? We asked hundreds of scientists
Only 6.6% of astrobiologists surveyed after the K2-18b announcement agreed that scientists had probably found extraterrestrial life. Nearly two-thirds disagreed outright. That gap between the headlines and the…
3I/ATLAS is packed with methanol, and ALMA just proved it
Two measurements, taken on two separate dates in late 2025, put a number on how strange this thing is: methanol-to-hydrogen-cyanide ratios of roughly 70 and 120. That’s not…
Astronomers pulled an ancient hydrogen signal out of 96 hours of old MeerKAT data
The data was sitting on a disk for seven years before anyone found the signal in it. That’s the part of this result worth sitting with. An international…
AI now steers fusion plasma faster than humans can react
A focused human operator needs about a second to react to anything. PACMAN, a control framework built at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and…
Cambridge scientists cracked the brain “switch” that triggers weight loss two opposite ways
Two obesity drugs do the exact opposite thing to the same receptor. Both make you lose weight. That contradiction has bugged metabolism researchers for years, and a mouse…
New GLP-1 pill hits up to 12% weight loss in 36 weeks
Twelve percent of your body weight, gone in 36 weeks, from a pill you can swallow with breakfast or without it. That’s the headline number out of a…
