ScienceDaily
After 15 years of puzzled looks, scientists discover that a gut bacterium's cancer-causing toxin uses a decoy receptor, and they've already built a better decoy to stop it.
ScienceDaily
Scientists build a stationary device that steals energy from electromagnetic waves by pretending to rotate faster than light, proving Penrose's black hole energy heist works in a lab.
Ars Technica
A Jupiter-size planet that survived its star's death is hotter than it should be, suggesting it was reheated by gravitational interactions billions of years later.
BBC World
Palaeontologists in Thailand discover a 20-metre-long dinosaur with a neck that makes giraffes jealous, and one scientist celebrates by destroying his computer.
Ars Technica
Google's quantum computer learns to recalibrate itself during calculations using error-correction data and reinforcement learning, boosting error detection by 20%.
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