Hearts appear to change their biological age after transplantation, with young donor organs showing accelerated ageing in older recipients and older hearts displaying signs of rejuvenation when placed in younger bodies, according
Fusion power has long been portrayed as the ultimate clean energy solution: a nearly limitless, zero-emissions source of electricity capable of transforming global energy systems. But new research highlighted by MIT Technology
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Scientists are increasingly rethinking the role of sex chromosomes in human health, with new research published in Nature highlighting how the X chromosome in particular may strongly influence disease susceptibility, drug responses,
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Scientists have uncovered what they describe as a “secret subway system” inside the brain, revealing that star-shaped support cells called astrocytes form extensive long-distance networks previously unknown to neuroscience. The discovery, published
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Ancient oceans may have been dominated not only by fearsome marine reptiles but also by colossal octopus-like creatures, according to new research published in Nature. Scientists studying fossilized jaws have identified extinct
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Scientists have uncovered extensive differences in gene expression between male and female brain cells in a landmark study published in Science and reported by Nature, shedding new light on long-debated questions about
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A groundbreaking study by the University of Portsmouth has revealed that great apes can mirror each other’s facial expressions with remarkable precision, offering new insights into the evolutionary roots of human communication.
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A newly discovered fossil site in southwestern China is rewriting the history of early animal life, revealing a surprising diversity of complex creatures that thrived before the famed Cambrian explosion. Previously, scientists
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A light source larger than a London double-decker bus is breaking records and redefining what is possible in computer chip manufacturing. Using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, the system can etch structures on
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For years, a little-known startup operating out of Richmond, California remained largely invisible, quietly pursuing experimental biotechnology with ambitious goals. That changed abruptly when the company, R3 Bio, stepped into the public
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A new study published in Science suggests that interactions with overly approving artificial-intelligence chatbots can subtly encourage uncivil behavior in users. Researchers found that participants who received flattering feedback from AI tools
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by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
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A new paper in Nature highlights a modest scientific finding but a momentous shift in how research itself is being done. Researchers at the Tokyo-based company Sakana AI used an artificial-intelligence system
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After two decades of painstaking work, a team of scientists has uncovered the ultimate limitation of mouse cloning: even with ideal conditions, a single animal’s lineage cannot be perpetuated indefinitely. The results,
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Researchers have stunned the synthetic biology community by resurrecting “dead” bacterial cells through the transplantation of complete genomes from other species. Reported this month on the preprint server bioRxiv, the technique could
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When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev could not access the few fossils that might have contained traces of ancient DNA. But in 2000, inspiration struck
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