In summer, the fjords of northwest Greenland develop milky swirls where glaciers meet the sea. From above, those cloudy patches look almost like spills of paint. In the water, they often mark pockets of concentrated food that attract predators.
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Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang — and found it was surprisingly soupy
Heavy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed the faintest trace of a wake left by a quark slicing through trillion-degree nuclear matter — hinting that the primordial soup of the universe may have literally been more…
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Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover
In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma that viruses lack protein synthesis…
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Did Life Begin in the Cold? New Experiments Point to an Icy Origin
Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today’s cells are extraordinarily intricate….
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Why so many mangrove restoration projects fail
Mangroves have become a favored solution in climate and conservation circles. They absorb carbon, blunt storm surge and support fisheries. Funding has followed. Yet outcomes often lag ambition. In parts of Southeast Asia and Latin America,…
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Beyond Mendel: Researchers call for a new understanding of genetics
For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its limits. In a perspective article published…
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Can Europe be climate-neutral by 2050? New monitor tracks the pace of the energy transition
The EU is expected to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. How far along is it? “At its core, we simply don’t know. We have a good picture of the supply side—how quickly wind turbines are being erected, grids expanded, and storage capacity…
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Laser-etched glass can store data for for 10,000 years, Microsoft says
Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia.
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Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it…
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Greenland’s Freaky Ice Plumes May Be Fueled by Wild, Pasta-Like Churning
Massive structures of slow, swirling, plume-like patterns were found hidden deep inside Greenland’s ice sheet years ago, but their source remained a mystery. Now, scientists believe they may have tracked down the mechanism…
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