April 15, 2026
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NASA needs nuclear power for its moon base. Here’s the White House plan to get it
If the U.S. is ever to set up a permanent outpost on the moon, it will need nuclear power. The White House just…
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Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds
Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years.
A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution — our technology, agriculture and the…
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Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes
Mammalian oocytes store proteins for embryonic development on abundant structures known as cytoplasmic lattices (CPLs)1; however, the mechanisms by which they achieve this are unclear, largely because the molecular composition of the lattices…
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DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe – Berkeley Lab News Center
DESI has now measured cosmological data for six times as many galaxies and quasars as all previous measurements combined. The collaboration will immediately begin processing the completed dataset, with the first dark energy results from…
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Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe
Since March, scientists have been keeping their eyes peeled as the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) started chipping away at the final tile of the largest 3D map of the universe to date. And last night, DESI officially…
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‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an unprecedented scale. Covering regions in our Milky Way galaxy more than 600 light-years…
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Why do older people have fewer seasonal allergies?
April 15, 2026
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Older people have fewer seasonal allergies than young people. Here’s why
Do declining immune systems explain the trend, or is something else going on? Experts explain
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Entire Animal Kingdom Communicates at the Same Tempo
Summary: From the flashing of fireflies to the chirping of crickets and the beats of modern pop music, much of the natural world seems to be vibrating to the same rhythm.
A new study reveals that communication signals across wildly different…
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A monster black hole appeared first, then its galaxy began to grow around it – Phys.org
- A monster black hole appeared first, then its galaxy began to grow around it Phys.org
- Could dark matter be made of black holes from a different universe? The Conversation
- Exploding black holes could explain an antimatter mystery Science News
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250-million-year-old fossil proves mammal ancestors laid eggs
April 15, 2026
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250-million-year-old fossil proves mammal ancestors laid eggs
Laying eggs may have helped mammal ancestors thrive after Earth’s worst mass extinction
This…
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