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Illustration for The Radio Signal Hidden Inside Static

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The Radio Signal Hidden Inside Static

A Stanford prototype turns unavoidable thermal noise into a kilobit-speed wireless link without generating a conventional carrier.

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A Dead Star’s Debris Split Into Two Rings

Spectra of a white dwarf reveal two chemically distinct debris rings—and hint that surviving rocky bodies are shaping them.

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Stone Crossed a Landscape Now Underwater

Two submerged sites at Murujuga preserve stone artefacts from a cultural landscape flooded at least 9,000 years ago.

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Patients Helped an Epilepsy Monitor Learn Its Mistakes

In a 13-patient hospital study, feedback from people undergoing EEG monitoring helped a seizure detector reject many of its own false alarms.

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German Lawmakers Ask Who Handles UAP Reports

A formal Bundestag inquiry asks whether Germany has clear responsibility, reporting channels and shared data for unidentified aerial phenomena.

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A Drone Can Plan Around What It Cannot Predict

A new planner builds time-aware safety corridors around unseen, moving obstacles—then keeps recalculating the route onboard.

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Heavy Methanol Exposes a Gap in Space Chemistry

ALMA has revealed the first robust interstellar detection of fully deuterated methanol—and current chemistry models cannot reproduce its abundance.

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A Workshop Reveals Lismore’s Monastic Importance

Burials and specialist metalworking strengthen the case that Lismore was an influential early medieval monastic centre.

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UAP Release Six: More Records, Not a Verdict

The September 18 release expands public access to UAP records. What does that actually establish?

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Illustration for Researchers Challenge How the Anthropocene Was Rejected

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Researchers Challenge How the Anthropocene Was Rejected

The argument over the Anthropocene now includes a question about how scientific institutions make their decisions.

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New Burial Analysis Changes a Göbekli Tepe Puzzle

Scattered human bones can suggest a dramatic ritual. Before choosing that explanation, archaeologists must ask how the bones became scattered.

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Webb Reads Collision Clues in Dust Around Stars

The collision is out of view. Its debris may still carry a chemical signature of how violent it was.

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Bright Cosmic Sources Were Hiding at the Softest Energies

An object can be luminous and still escape a survey. Sometimes the missing ingredient is the part of the spectrum being searched.

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Helping Cells Read Past a Premature Stop Signal

Some disease-causing mutations interrupt a protein before it is finished. Researchers are exploring a way to help the cell keep reading.

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A Large Long COVID Trial Found No Antiviral Benefit

A plausible explanation for an illness does not automatically produce an effective treatment. RECOVER-VITAL has supplied an important test.

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PubMed Is Testing a Map of Connected Research

One paper can answer a question and hide the next one. A new PubMed pilot aims to make neighbouring research easier to find.

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A Battery Designed to Disappear After Its Job

A swallowed medical sensor needs power. Researchers are testing a battery whose useful life ends before its material life does.

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A Martian Rock Can Remember More Than One Kind of Water

A peer-reviewed study reconstructs several water episodes in Jezero’s Margin unit, while leaving key questions about ancient habitats unresolved.

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A Robot Can Do the Task. Can It Do the Job?

Anthropic’s new analysis draws a revealing line between technical capability and affordable automation.

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Illustration for A New Brain Atlas Looks Beneath the Diagnosis

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A New Brain Atlas Looks Beneath the Diagnosis

Millions of cell nuclei offer a closer view of what brain disorders share—and where they differ.

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Illustration for Could Moon Dust Become a Search for Ancient Technology?

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Could Moon Dust Become a Search for Ancient Technology?

A new proposal turns the search for extraterrestrial intelligence toward microscopic particles—with no detection claimed.

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Twenty Coins Bring Rome’s English Quarter Into View

A new report connects small finds with the working life of an early medieval community.

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