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In world first, antimatter taken on test drive at CERN
- Mar 29, 2026
CERN scientists on Tuesday pulled off the unprecedented feat of transporting antiprotons by road, successfully test-driving the world's first antimatt...
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A mass mating event in the lab reveals how yeast cells choose partners
- Mar 29, 2026
While humans often struggle to find a partner who is both physically attractive and a reliable co-parent, yeast may already have cracked the formula f...
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ZTF discovers a new mass-transferring brown dwarf binary system
- Mar 29, 2026
Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and elsewhere report the discovery of a binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs...
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Who do you think you are? What DNA tests reveal—and what they don't
- Mar 29, 2026
For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives fo...
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The time capsule in the salt flat
- Mar 29, 2026
There is a place in northern Chile, 3,500 meters above sea level in the Andean Altiplano, where almost nothing survives. The Salar de Pajonales is a s...
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TESS discovers an Earth-sized planet orbiting nearby M-dwarf star
- Mar 29, 2026
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting TOI-4616—...
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Ancient Neanderthal genome reveals isolated, distinct populations
- Mar 29, 2026
Neanderthals split into distinct regional groups that developed genetic differences far sooner than modern human populations typically did, according...
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Eco-friendly hair repair adds to more natural personal care product pipeline
- Mar 29, 2026
Hair damaged by dyes, bleaching or harsh sunlight has just got special treatment. Green chemistry researchers at Flinders University are experimenting...
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The world's waste mountain is rising at an alarming rate
- Mar 29, 2026
The world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste. A new World Bank Group report, What a Waste 3.0, shows that more than 2.6 billi...
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Novel protocol reconstructs quantum states in large-scale experiments up to 96 qubits
- Mar 29, 2026
Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some computationall...
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Embryo-like fossils from Southern China offer new clues about ancient life
- Mar 29, 2026
Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541...
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The moon that tipped a planet
- Mar 29, 2026
Neptune is the solar system's most distant planet, a cold, blue ice giant sitting nearly 30 times further from the sun than Earth. At that remote dist...