ScienceDaily
Virginia Tech researchers have turned the recycling nightmare that is PVC into high-performance engine oil, proving that one person's trash is another person's lubricant.
ScienceDaily
Scientists discover a protein that acts as a 'brake' on nerve regeneration, and blocking it might help damaged nerves heal - because of course it's a brake.
Ars Technica
A post-doc's eagle eyes reveal that thousands of commercial antibodies are sold with Photoshopped 'proof,' and companies are responding with a collective shrug.
ScienceDaily
Stanford scientists find that immune cells from the body flood into the aging brain, transforming into microglia - a uniquely human quirk that could lead to new treatments for neurological diseases.
The Guardian Europe
Astronomers discover a black hole wearing a star's clothing, and it's 30 billion light-years away - so don't worry, your day is still normal.
ScienceDaily
LSU physicists craft a gold metacrystal that sorts quantum light at room temperature, potentially ditching the cryogenic chill and paving the way for practical quantum tech.
Ars Technica
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext AI gives forecasters an extra day to prepare for hurricanes, and nobody's quite sure how it works.
ScienceDaily
A 518-million-year-old sea creature named Urokodia reveals that spider fangs started as humble pincers, proving that even the most fearsome weapons have modest beginnings.
ScienceDaily
Scientists discover that evolution turned the brain's hunger circuits into parenting software, because why build a new system when duct tape works?
Ars Technica
From diamond vacancies to electron buses, the quantum computing race heats up with new qubit technologies, each claiming it can scale better than the last.
Ars Technica
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical called isopropyl myristate to suppress fertility in rivals, which also works as a super-contraceptive and prevents coups - and humans secrete it too, though we're not sure why.
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%.
The Guardian Europe
Scientists find the world's deepest whale graveyard at over 7 km deep, with 485 fossil sites and rotting carcasses teeming with weird life - proving the ocean floor is basically a morbid buffet.
ScienceDaily
Heat does weird stuff at the nanoscale, and researchers have figured out how to make it transfer four times faster using gold-patterned metamaterials - possibly leading to better computer cooling and energy tech.
The Guardian Europe
Exhausted activist sits under same oak tree daily for a year, discovers nature is patient, swifts throw parties, and sheepskin squares are surprisingly versatile.
Ars Technica
JWST finds a supermassive black hole from 700 million years after the Big Bang that's basically all black hole, no galaxy - because the Universe has a sense of humor.
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