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• Intellia’s One-Time CRISPR Therapy Cuts Angioedema Attacks 87% in Phase 3 Trial

  Intellia’s one-time CRISPR therapy lonvo-z met its primary endpoint in the Phase 3 HAELO trial, cutting hereditary angioedema attacks by 87% versus placebo — a still-investigational result now heading…

• A 2,811-Patient Cohort Just Solved a Mystery Movement Disorder Gene

  A gene-burden analysis of 2,811 patients with ataxia, spastic paraplegia, and dystonia identified CD99L2 — previously known only as an immune protein — as a cause of X-linked spastic ataxia, closing a…

• Denisovans Interbred With Humans at Least Three Separate Times, Yale Study Finds

  A Yale-led study reconstructed 832 million base pairs of Denisovan DNA from 177 Near Oceanian genomes, finding evidence of at least three distinct interbreeding events — and thousands of surviving v…

• Brain Implant Restores Touch After a Decade

  A ten-year clinical trial led by the University of Pittsburgh and University of Chicago found that intracortical microstimulation can safely and durably restore touch sensation in people with spinal c…

• ‘Foamy’ Microglia Emerge as a Driver of MS Progression, Study Finds

  Lipid-laden ‘foamy’ microglia found in progressive MS lesions may drive disease progression, Dutch researchers report in Nature Neuroscience.…

• Gut-to-brain: a vagus nerve pathway that shapes memory

  A USC rat study in Nature Communications maps a gut-vagus-hippocampus circuit that supports memory after eating, and disrupts under early-life Western diet — work substantially funded by three stacked…

• Georgetown Study: The Brain Can Rewire Itself for True Multitasking

  Georgetown researchers find that with enough practice, learned tasks shift from the prefrontal cortex to the temporal cortex, letting the brain run two tasks in true parallel rather than rapidly switc…

• Antibody Targeting GPNMB Blocks Spread of Parkinson’s Pathology in Neurons

  A Penn Medicine study in Neuron finds that GPNMB, an immune-related protein, helps spread Parkinson’s alpha-synuclein pathology between neurons — and that antibodies blocking GPNMB stopped that spread…

• Aging Protein EPS8 Identified as Trigger for ALS and Huntington’s Protein Clumping

  A study from the University of Cologne’s CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research, published in Nature Aging, identifies EPS8 as an aging-linked protein whose rise with age triggers pathological…

• CRISPR Tool Restores Immune Visibility in Prostate Cancer Cells

  Duke and Rochester researchers used an RNA-editing CRISPR tool to block a shortening event in the SPSB1 gene’s mRNA, restoring MHC-I antigen display on prostate cancer cells and making tumors visible …

• mRNA Vaccines Get a T Cell Boost From Dendritic Cell ‘Cross-Dressing,’ WashU Study Finds

  A WashU Medicine study published in Nature finds that mRNA-LNP vaccines prime CD8+ T cells largely through “cross-dressing” — dendritic cells, including cDC2 cells, picking up ready-made peptide-MHC-I…

• Montreal Team Finds a Third Immune Checkpoint T Cells Switch On Themselves

  A Université de Montréal/IRCM team reports in Nature that SLAMF6, a receptor T cells trigger on themselves, acts as a third immune checkpoint distinct from PD-1 and CTLA-4 — a preclinical finding with…

• FDA Approves Datopotamab Deruxtecan (Datroway) for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

  The FDA has approved datopotamab deruxtecan (Datroway) for unresectable or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, based on the MSK-led TROPION-Breast02 trial, which showed a roughly six-month overa…

• MD Anderson Launches Phase 1 Trial of CD94-Targeted CAR-T Therapy for T/NK-Cell Lymphoma

  MD Anderson has opened a Phase 1 trial of JV-394, a CAR-T therapy targeting CD94, in patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell and NK-cell lymphomas, a cancer type that has long resisted cell-based …

• FDA Approves ctDNA-Guided Adjuvant Atezolizumab for Bladder Cancer

  The FDA has approved atezolizumab (Tecentriq) as adjuvant treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, but only for patients whose blood tests ctDNA-positive after surgery — the first approval to use…

• Dana-Farber Study Finds a Molecular Brake That Weakens Cancer Vaccines

  A Dana-Farber-led study published in Science on July 9, 2026 identifies CARM1, an epigenetic enzyme, as a molecular brake on dendritic cells’ ability to present tumor antigens. Blocking it enhanced ho…

• CDK8 Inhibition Pushes Aggressive Pediatric Cancer Cells Toward Normal Muscle

  Dana-Farber researchers show CDK8 inhibition slows tumor growth and pushes alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma cells toward normal muscle differentiation.…

• A Backpack-Sized Field Lab Is Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance in Galápagos Wastewater

  A Penn-led team built a backpack-portable microbiology lab to run on-site metagenomic sequencing in the Galápagos, tracking multidrug-resistant bacteria in wastewater-contaminated coastal waters witho…

• UVA Study Finds Just 36 Bacterial Species Across 352 Probiotics

  A UVA-led study analyzed 352 probiotic products from major U.S. pharmacy chains and found only 36 unique bacterial species represented, highlighting a gap between commercial formulation and the mechan…

• Reverse Ecology Reveals Hidden Lineages in the Gut Microbiome

  A University of Vienna (CeMESS) team led by Martin F. Polz and Xiaoqian Annie Yu used a ‘reverse ecology’ approach to show that many gut bacterial species are actually several distinct evolutionary li…

• Hungarian Team Identifies Gut-Phage ‘Molecular Anchor’ Mechanism With Therapeutic Potential

  Researchers at HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged (Hungary) have identified surface adhesion proteins that act as ‘molecular anchors,’ letting certain gut bacteriophages bind human intestinal …

• Bacteriophages Unlock Vitamin B12 for the Gut Microbiome

  A 2026 ISME Journal study from Virginia Tech shows bacteriophages that lyse vitamin-B12-producing gut bacteria release the vitamin at levels that reshape surrounding microbial communities — with NIH-f…

• Archaeal Cannulae, Solved: How Pyrodictium abyssi Self-Assembles Its Cell-Linking Filaments Without Chaperones

  Two 2025 papers — one using cryo-EM, one using solution NMR — independently worked out how CanA, the building-block protein of the tubular “cannulae” filaments produced by the hyperthermophilic archae…

• Astronomers Confirm a Supermassive Black Hole Is Running Away

  Astronomers have confirmed RBH-1, a supermassive black hole speeding through space at 1,000 km/s with a 200,000-light-year trail, as the first directly confirmed runaway black hole — and a separate st…

• Astronomers Catch a Quasar Called ‘the Hatchling’ Mid-Transition

  A multi-observatory team using JWST, Hubble, the VLT, Chandra, ALMA and the VLA has caught a distant red quasar — nicknamed ‘the Hatchling’ — in a rarely observed transition phase, as outflowing gas a…

• Euclid Telescope Finds 31 Record-Early Quasars in Public Survey Data

  Euclid has identified 31 quasars in the early Universe, including two record-breakers from when the cosmos was just 670 million years old — and the catalogue behind the find is going into the public r…

• GWTC-5: LVK’s 390-Event Gravitational-Wave Catalog Is Fully Open Data

  LVK’s GWTC-5.0 catalog adds 161 new detections for 390 total gravitational-wave events since 2015 — all released as open data via GWOSC, and a live case study in authorship credit at collaboration sca…

• Low-Dose Sulfoxaflor Exposure Alters Reproductive Gene Activity in Bumblebees, Georgia Tech Study Finds

  A Georgia Institute of Technology study in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety finds that sulfoxaflor, a widely used systemic insecticide, shifts gene expression in bumblebee ovarian tissue at dose…

• How the Cultivated Strawberry’s Octoploid Genome Evolved

  A USDA-led team used transposable-element ‘molecular clocks’ to trace the cultivated strawberry’s octoploid genome to three ancient hybridization events, revealing four ancestral subgenomes and a new …

• How Salt-Stressed Maize Recruits Bacterial Bodyguards to Fortify Its Roots

  A China Agricultural University study published in Microbiology Research finds that salt-stressed maize roots release extra arginine, recruiting Pseudomonas bacteria that switch on a NAC-family gene a…

• 4 in 5 Toddler Foods on Grocery Shelves Are Ultra-Processed, New Audit Finds

  A shelf audit of 2,783 toddler-food products across 21 Austin, TX grocery stores found 81% were ultra-processed under the Nova classification system and 49% failed at least one WHO nutrient benchmark.…

• Sublethal Glyphosate Exposure Cuts Honeybee Foraging 13%, Alters Brain Chemistry

  Bees exposed to a sublethal glyphosate dose foraged 13% less within three days and showed altered brain chemistry, a Virginia Tech-led study in the Journal of Experimental Biology finds.…

• Study Finds the Brain Processes Language Complexity Even Under General Anesthesia

  Baylor College of Medicine researchers recorded individual hippocampal neurons in epilepsy-surgery patients under general anesthesia and found the brain still distinguishes nouns, verbs, and adjective…

• Analysis of 3,700+ Dream Reports Finds Dream Content Reflects Both Personality and Environment

  Researchers at IMT Lucca applied natural language processing to more than 3,700 dream and waking-experience descriptions from 287 participants, finding dream content reflects a mix of personality trai…

• Eye-Tracking Study Finds Early Attentional Marker of Depression Risk in Children

  A two-year Binghamton University study tracking 242 children’s eye movements toward emotional faces found a measurable attention marker linked to depression risk — one that shifts differently dependin…

• Small Pilot Trial: Anti-Inflammatory Drug Tocilizumab Shows 54% Remission for Treatment-Resistant Depression

  A small University of Bristol-led pilot trial found the anti-inflammatory drug tocilizumab produced 54% remission in treatment-resistant depression versus 31% on placebo (NNT=5) over four weeks. The 3…

• THC Medication Dronabinol Eliminates PTSD Nightmares for a Third of Patients in Industry-Funded Trial

  In a Charité-led, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 170+ PTSD patients, the THC medication Dronabinol cut nightmare severity nearly twice as much as placebo over ten weeks, and more than a thi…

• 135 Scientists Warn Europe’s Pollinator Crisis Runs Deeper Than Bees

  A white paper from 135 researchers across eight Horizon Europe-funded consortia warns that fragmented EU policy — not just pesticides — is a major barrier to reversing wild-pollinator decline, and set…

• Saxifraga candelabrum Confirmed Carnivorous, Validating Darwin’s 1875 Prediction

  A Nature Communications study confirms Saxifraga candelabrum traps, digests, and absorbs nutrients from insects — meeting all four formal criteria for carnivory and validating a hypothesis Charles Dar…

• New Beetle Genus “Luffy” Described From China and Laos, Published Open Access

  A Denmark-Austria research team describing a new rove beetle genus from China’s Yunnan Province and northern Laos named it Luffy, after the elastic-limbed One Piece protagonist. The ZooKeys paper, lik…

• Ecuador Identifies 8,000+ New Insect Species Using DNA Barcoding

  A six-year DNA barcoding partnership between Ecuador’s Inabio and the University of Guelph’s Centre for Biodiversity Genomics identified 8,057 candidate insect and arachnid species at the Mashpi-Tayra…

• First Nations Lead a Cross-Border Push to Bring Salmon Back to the Upper Columbia

  Syilx-Okanagan, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa nations are running the tagging and hatchery science behind a binational push to return salmon above Grand Coulee Dam, paired with a US$200M US federal commitment…

• UN Assessment: Migratory Freshwater Fish Populations Down 81% Since 1970

  The CMS COP15 Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes (released March 2026) found an 81% decline in migratory freshwater fish populations since 1970, with 325 species flagged as international…

• Scientists Give the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal a Digital Afterlife

  Researchers CT- and micro-CT-scanned a rare 1966 vaquita skeleton and uploaded the 3D models to MorphoSource, an open-access repository, creating a permanent, freely accessible anatomical record of th…

• India’s Tigers Are Rebounding — Now the Fight Is Over Their Pathways

  India’s tiger population has more than doubled since the low point of the 1970s, from roughly 1,827 animals in 1972 to 3,682 in the 2022 census, and the country now holds an estimated three-quarters o…

• Eight-Year Review Confirms 227 Native Mammal Species in Honduras

  A new ZooKeys study led by Manfredo A. Turcios-Casco and an international team spent eight years reconciling over 300,000 museum, field, and publication records to confirm 227 native mammal species in…

• Seven New Diamond Frog Species Discovered in Madagascar

  A comprehensive taxonomic revision combining museum DNA, field surveys and frog calls has added seven new diamond frog (Rhombophryne) species to Madagascar’s amphibian fauna, bringing the genus to 27 …

• Argonne’s AI Agent Team Turns a Single Prompt Into a Full Atomistic Simulation

  Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Chicago built a multi-agent AI framework that plans, runs, and validates atomistic and molecular-dynamics simulations end to end from a singl…

• ergoCub: The Humanoid Robot Designed Around the Human Standing Next to It

  ergoCub is a new humanoid robot whose hardware and control software were optimized together around human ergonomics, reducing measured lower-back strain for people lifting alongside it. It was develop…

• MIT’s Self-Assembling Robot Boats Snap Together Into Bridges on Command

  MIT researchers and international collaborators have published FloatForm, a fleet of small robotic boats that self-assemble into bridges, platforms, and other floating structures on command, in the op…

• KAIST’s HOUND Robot Picks Its Own Gait on Stairs and Forest Trails — With a Defense Agency Listed as Co-Author

  KAIST researchers have built APT-RL, a control system that lets their HOUND quadruped robot choose its own gait — trotting or bounding — in real time across stairs, slopes, and forest terrain, reachin…

• A Robot Leaps Straight From Water Into Flight Like a Diving Bird — With a Tribal College as Co-Author on the Science Paper

  An MIT-led team has built a bird-like robot that flies straight out of the water without paddling first, detailed in a July 2026 Science paper. Beyond the engineering, the author list itself is notabl…

• DeepMind’s New Robot AI Can Refuse a Bad Command — And Now There’s a Benchmark to Prove It

  Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots coordinated whole-body control, but the notable part for research administrators is what shipped alongside it: a dedicated Safety Technical Re…

• DeepMind’s Open-Sourced WeatherNext Model Gives Forecasters an Extra Day’s Warning on Cyclones

  Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext Cyclones model now produces three-day storm forecasts as accurate as prior two-day forecasts, a gain validated in a peer-reviewed Nature paper, released as open-source co…

• Hera’s Deep-Space Software Upgrade Sets Up Its Dimorphos Arrival

  ESA has uplinked a major software update to its Hera spacecraft, transmitted across roughly 140 million kilometres of deep space, activating the instruments and autonomous-navigation systems Hera need…

• NASA Engineers Extend Voyager 2’s Science Return Near 50 Years

  NASA engineers have extended Voyager 2’s science mission by at least a year through a power-conservation effort nicknamed the “Big Bang,” swapping in lower-power alternatives to keep its three remaini…

• NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopter Concept

  JPL has tested a lightweight radar antenna for SkyFall, a proposed 3-helicopter Mars mission concept to map subsurface water ice. The antenna survived 200 simulated landings ahead of a possible late-2…

• Juno Takes Io’s Temperature — From Beneath the Surface

  Juno’s microwave radiometer has taken the first subsurface heat-flow readings on Io, finding background heat release up to 30x Earth’s average — and offering a clean example of NASA’s competed, PI-led…

• NASA’s Psyche Mission Returns Mars Flyby Data and a Time-Lapse Video

  NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used a May 2026 Mars gravity-assist flyby to test its imager, magnetometer, and spectrometer, producing a time-lapse video and calibration data cross-checked against NASA, ESA…

• Perseverance Watches Earth Vanish Behind Mars’s Moon Phobos

  On July 2, 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the first-ever observation from another planet’s surface of Earth vanishing behind a moon — Mars’s moon Phobos — using its Mastcam-Z instrument, a t…

• Curiosity Rover Finds a Field of Honeycomb Textures on Mars

  NASA’s Curiosity rover has imaged a field of honeycomb-shaped polygonal fractures in Mars’s Valle Grande. The cause, mud cracks, thermal cycling, or compression, is still undetermined, and the underly…

• CWD Prions Crossed Into Primates in Lab Study, but Human Risk Stays Contested

  An 18-year University of Calgary study found CWD prions produced a faint, assay-detected signal in 2 of 18 macaques. Experts genuinely disagree on what that means for human risk — here is the real ran…

• Oral Antiviral GHP-88310 Blocks Airborne and Contact Spread of Measles-Like Virus in Ferret Study

  An oral antiviral, GHP-88310, blocked both airborne and contact spread of a measles-like virus in a Georgia State University ferret study — a preclinical step toward outbreak-response tools amid the g…

• New Orthobunyavirus Found in Swiss Cattle Behind Milk-Drop Illness

  Swiss researchers identified a new Simbu-serogroup orthobunyavirus, spread by midges, behind a milk-drop illness in cattle herds. It is not classified as a regulated disease and is not considered zoon…

• Scientists Find Two New Ways to Break Down PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water

  HZDR researchers in Dresden report two lab-scale methods — hydrodynamic cavitation and cold atmospheric plasma — that break down PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ by attacking the carbon-fluorine bond directly…

• In Vivo CRISPR Base Editing Slows Huntington’s Disease Protein Toxicity via Exon Skipping

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers screened 141 CRISPR base editor variants and identified one that disrupts a splice site in the huntingtin gene, triggering exon skipping that produc…

• First Complete Zebra Finch Genome Recovers 2,710 Genes

  Rockefeller University’s Jarvis lab has produced the first fully phased, diploid, telomere-to-telomere genome of a songbird, recovering 2,710 genes missing from the zebra finch reference genome resear…

• AlphaFold Maps the Structural Causes of CRISPR-Cas9 Off-Target Editing

  Researchers at Peking University used DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 to map which structural contacts distinguish CRISPR-Cas9’s on-target and off-target binding, then redesigned the enzyme around that map — cu…

• First Complete Marmoset Genome Surfaces New Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Gene Targets

  A six-institution, NIH-funded US-German consortium led by UC Santa Cruz has produced the first telomere-to-telomere marmoset genome, a gap-free reference that surfaces 76 candidate genes for Alzheimer…

• Stanford Team Uses AI to Design 16 Working Bacteriophages, Exposing a Biosecurity Screening Gap

  Stanford researchers used the Evo genome-language model to design 16 functional synthetic bacteriophages from scratch, and biosecurity specialists warn the AI-generated genomes evade existing DNA-synt…

• Chemists Turn Lignin Waste Into a Plastics Building Block Using Only Water

  A Beijing-led team engineered a ruthenium-ceria nanocatalyst that converts a lignin-derived quinone into 1,4-cyclohexanediol, a plastics and resins building block, at 96.7% yield using only water as t…

• All Four LHC Experiments Jointly Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter

  All four LHC experiments — ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb — independently found signatures consistent with quark-gluon plasma in oxygen and neon collisions and reported it jointly, a rare instance of four…

• New York Confirms Its First Bourbon Virus Case — and a Bigger Testing Gap

  New York’s first confirmed Bourbon virus case, on Long Island, spotlights a rare tick-borne virus with no vaccine, no treatment, and no standard clinical test — and the diagnostic-funding gap behind c…

• ATLAS Sets Record Limits on the Higgs Boson’s Self-Interaction

  ATLAS’s April 2026 result sets record-tight limits on the Higgs boson’s self-coupling, the last untested piece of the Higgs mechanism. The paper’s byline: over 5,500 collaboration members — a real tes…

• Flu Virus Caught Hijacking a Mysterious Nuclear Structure

  A new in-cell protein contact map shows influenza A virus dismantling paraspeckles — nuclear structures normally used for gene regulation — to release host factors that boost its own replication, per …

• Japan’s Kikai Caldera Is Recharging With Fresh Magma, 7,300 Years After Its Last Eruption

  A Kobe University-led seismic survey with JAMSTEC has found direct evidence that Japan’s Kikai caldera is actively refilling with magma, 7,300 years after one of the largest eruptions of the last 10,0…

• HD Hyundai Completes Final ITER Vacuum Vessel Sector, Closing a Seven-Nation Fusion Milestone

  HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has completed the ninth and final ITER vacuum vessel sector, closing out a manufacturing effort split across South Korea and the EU’s procurement shares. The milestone high…

• 27 Institutions, One Ocean: Inside the €8.5M SYNCHRONY Project

  SYNCHRONY, a 27-institution, EU-funded project coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is building a unified observing system to consolidate the Southern Ocean’s scattered climate data streams — …

• New ‘White-Eyed’ Catshark Species Discovered Off India’s Southwest Coast

  Zoological Survey of India researchers have described Apristurus drona, a new deep-sea catshark with striking white eyes, discovered off Kerala’s coast and confirmed through combined DNA barcoding and…

• No Central Command: Complete Fly Connectome Reveals Distributed Control Circuits

  Researchers have mapped every neuron and connection across a fruit fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord, finding that behavioral control is distributed across circuits throughout the whole nervous syste…

• 3.4-Million-Year-Old Ocean Cores Show the Atlantic’s Circulation Can Rewire Itself

  Sediment cores from two international ocean-drilling programs show that 3.4 million years ago the Indian Ocean’s ‘Agulhas Leakage’ nearly shut off while the Atlantic’s overturning circulation intensif…

• Blood-Derived Immune Cells Quietly Repopulate the Aging Human Brain

  A Stanford-led Nature study finds that blood stem cells send immune cell reinforcements into the aging human brain, forming microglia-like cells in a process traced through shared DNA mutations — a ph…

• China-Led Team Maps How M87’s Black Hole Glow Changes With Distance

  A Shanghai Astronomical Observatory-led team used dual-frequency Event Horizon Telescope data to produce the first spatially resolved map of how M87’s black hole glow changes near the event horizon.…

• JWST Finds a Giant Planet Hiding in a Famous Star System

  A UC San Diego postdoc discovered a hidden giant planet, Beta Pictoris d, buried in James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopy data from inside one of the sky’s brightest debris disks.…

• Only the Second X-ray Shock Breakout Ever Caught, From a Dying Star

  A Chinese satellite’s X-ray trigger set off a rapid global observing campaign that caught only the second confirmed X-ray shock breakout ever recorded, from supernova SN 2026gzf.…

• Astronomers Confirm Nearby Super-Earth Sits in the Habitable Zone

  UC Irvine astronomers confirmed a new super-Earth, GJ 3378b, sitting in its star’s habitable zone — verifying the signal independently with two separate spectrographs, HPF and NEID.…

• SpudCell: Scientists Build a Fully Synthetic Cell With a Complete Life Cycle

  University of Minnesota researchers built SpudCell, a synthetic cell assembled entirely from nonliving chemistry, with a 90kb genome that grows, divides, and evolves through Darwinian selection — with…

• AI Screened Billions of Compounds — and Found Two New Superconductors

  An Aalto University-led consortium used machine-learning pre-screening plus first-principles calculations to predict two new kagome superconductors, YRu3B2 and LuRu3B2, later confirmed in the lab — a …

• Scientists Restore Vancomycin’s Power Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs

  Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Scripps Research have identified a small molecule, pghi-4, that blocks a bacterial enzyme called SagA and restores the antibiotic vancomycin’s ability …

• Scientists Find Two Unknown Extinct Human Relatives Hiding in Our DNA

  Geneticists analyzing living human genomes — no fossils involved — have identified two previously unknown archaic hominin lineages: a ‘ghost’ population that interbred with humans over 50,000 years ag…

• Canadian Fossil Site Pushes Back the Dawn of Animal Life by Millions of Years

  More than 100 fossils from a 567-million-year-old site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, including Dickinsonia, Kimberella and Funisia, push back key milestones in early animal evolution by 5 to 10 m…

• Why Solid-State Batteries Fail: MIT and TU Munich Trace It to Crystal Grain Boundaries

  MIT, TU Munich, and University of Antwerp researchers have identified why solid-state batteries often fail: electrical imbalances at the grain boundaries inside the solid electrolyte trigger the lithi…

• The First Commercial Room-Temperature Quantum Computer Just Went on Sale

  SaxonQ, a Leipzig startup, has opened orders for room-temperature diamond NV-center quantum computers that need no dilution refrigerator — a hardware shift with implications beyond the lab.…

• 1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Show Early Human Relatives Were Bigger, and Walked in Groups

  A 1.43-million-year-old trackway of 21 footprints at Kenya’s Lake Turkana shows some Paranthropus boisei individuals stood up to 1.8 meters tall and appear to have moved together as a group — new evid…

• Ötzi the Iceman’s Skin Still Hosts a Living Microbiome After 5,300 Years

  Researchers at Eurac Research’s Institute for Mummy Studies have sequenced a still-living community of cold-adapted yeasts and ancient gut bacteria on the 5,300-year-old Iceman mummy — some of which a…

• Lost Megalodon Vertebrae Resurface in Danish Museum, Confirming Giant Shark’s 24-Meter Size

  Fossil vertebrae from the giant shark Otodus megalodon, long believed destroyed in a 1989 museum transfer, have been rediscovered on a shelf at a Danish museum. Re-analysis of the specimens, published…