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Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making
11 December 2025 at 09:01
Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found.
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Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments
4 December 2025 at 15:27
Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter.
Workers installing the MicroBooNE time-projection chamber into the experiment’s cryostat at Fermilab in 2013.
NASA Rover Discovers Lightning on Mars
26 November 2025 at 11:10
The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere.
A towering dust devil casting a shadow over the Martian surface, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2012.
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New Gene-Editing Strategy Could Help Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases
19 November 2025 at 11:00
Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases.
David R. Liu, a biologist at the Broad Institute and Harvard, is the lead author of a new study of a gene-editing strategy that could be standardized for multiple people with rare diseases.
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Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
22 October 2025 at 12:14
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
A quantum computer at Google’s quantum research facility near Santa Barbara, Calif.
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