Quantum computing, biotech, fusion energy, and the scientific discoveries transforming our world.
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A new urine cell-free RNA liquid biopsy called uRARE-seq identified 95 percent of localized bladder cancers in a 683-sample study and predicted which patients would benefit from BCG immunotherapy.
Synchrotron X-ray scans of the 345 million year old Westlothiana lizziae fossil reveal internal gills and a fish-like mouth, forcing a reclassification as an aquatic stem tetrapod, not the earliest reptile.
A Monash University team has shown that Clostridioides difficile can carry an antibiotic resistance gene inside its dormant spores, helping them survive bleach, antibiotics and hot laundry.
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft used Earth's gravity on September 28, 2026, to bend its path toward Jupiter, saving fuel for its 2031 arrival and 2034 Ganymede orbit.
The uncrewed megarocket survived an early engine shutdown, delivered its first operational payload and splashed down in the Pacific, opening the door to routine flights and NASA lunar work.
An international team has identified IRAS 18293-0941, a stellar-mass black hole about 12,000 light-years away, as the Milky Way's first confirmed microblazar with a jet pointed at Earth.
Two Science Advances papers describe how Enceladus's ice plumes naturally separate ocean compounds and how Earth methanogens grew in a simulated alkaline ocean, improving prospects for life detection.
A Nature paper built on 103 chromosome-level bat genomes and 44 fossils argues that bats and powered flight arose in Europe around 65 million years ago, with echolocation appearing early.
NASA has moved the PRIMA far-infrared space telescope into Phase B, making it the first mission in the agency's new Probe Explorers class with a $1.2 billion cost cap and a 2033 launch target.
Two Stanford-led papers in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans detail how a Chukchi Sea front drives carbon-rich plankton to the seafloor at roughly four times the normal rate.
Oregon State University chemists have patented an aqueous, solvent-free method for splitting zirconium from hafnium, reporting a selectivity of 33 against an industry standard near 6.5.
The 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument cooled to minus 225 Fahrenheit before its 18 detectors switched on, while the Coronagraph Instrument passed its own first systems checkout.
Researchers led by Northwest University and Cambridge describe four 518 million year old Yujingia glutenotunica specimens from Yunnan that place the ambulacrarian ancestor as a tentacle feeder.
Two Science papers from Jennifer Doudna's lab describe VIPR, a virus-borne gene-targeting system that predates CRISPR and reads DNA with a gapped skip-one code.
Carriers of an inherited EGFR variant face 25 times the lung cancer risk of noncarriers, and more than 60 times the risk if they have never smoked, a Science study reports.
Stanford Medicine researchers transplanted lab-grown human cortical organoids into mice bred without most of their cortex, and the human tissue filled more than 90 percent of the empty space within three months.
A routine data-quality check by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team has revealed a 222 meter crater named McGetchin, the largest fresh impact structure ever identified in the solar system.
ATLAS physicists turned the Large Hadron Collider into a cosmic ray simulator, firing protons at oxygen to test how air showers begin, and found existing models fall short.
ETH Zurich and PSI researchers have extracted a cold, tightly focused muonium beam from superfluid helium, a first step toward measuring how second-generation antimatter falls under gravity.
University of Queensland researchers find that growth bands in a Biggenden Banded Snail shell track extreme rainfall after cyclones, offering a new way to read ancient storm tracks.
Researchers in Denmark have engineered a compost-derived enzyme variant that degrades about 1.4 percent of the polyurethane in real shoe-sole foam in three days without any pre-treatment of the plastic.