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This 200 Year Old Whale Could Hold A Secret To Longer Human Lives
A whale that can live for more than 200 years has given scientists a fascinating clue about one of biology’s biggest mysteries: why some bodies age far more slowly than others. Researchers studying bowhead whales have identified a protein involved in DNA repair that may help explain how these enormous animals survive for so long.…
Physicists Have Been Trying to Remove Time From the Universe
For centuries, time has seemed like the one thing nobody could argue with. Clocks move forward, people grow older, stars form and disappear, and every event appears to happen somewhere between a past and a future. But when physicists tried to write an equation capable of describing the entire universe, they ran into a bizarre…
Claude Just Found a Strange DNA System That Scientists Had Overlooked
Anthropic says its Claude AI has identified a previously uncharacterized biological system hidden inside DNA, after searching hundreds of thousands of reverse transcriptases and spotting an unusual pattern that researchers had not recognized before. The system, which Anthropic calls array-associated reverse transcriptases, or ART, contains a series of repeating DNA sequences that resemble a feature…
Scientists Found the One Thing That Can Finally Kill Earth’s Toughest Animal
Tardigrades have survived conditions that sound impossible for a tiny animal. They have endured freezing temperatures, extreme dehydration, radiation exposure, and even the vacuum of outer space. For years, these microscopic creatures have represented one of science’s clearest examples of survival against the odds. Now, researchers have discovered something that can stop these famously tough…
The Human Brain Turns Everyday Moments Into Meaningful Stories
You may think you remember life as it happened. Neuroscience suggests your brain has been editing along the way, cutting some moments and holding tightly to others. Every conversation, errand and ordinary afternoon arrives as one continuous stream. Yet your mind somehow turns that stream into scenes, chapters and connections that later become the story…
A Hidden Immune System May Be Sitting Inside Your Skull
For decades, the skull was treated as little more than armor, a hard shell protecting the brain from the outside world. Now, scientists studying mice have discovered specialized immune structures hidden inside the skull’s bone marrow that could force medicine to see that familiar bone very differently. The finding suggests the brain may have a…
Giant Pacific Virus Discovered With a Tail Longer Than Many Bacteria
What does it take for something too small to see to find the one cell in the ocean that can keep it alive? For a virus drifting through the open Pacific, the odds are brutally difficult. The water can appear almost empty across enormous distances, leaving a microscopic particle to drift until it either encounters…
Scientists Built Glasses That Let Humans See What Our Eyes Normally Miss
There is a huge part of the world passing through your eyes every second that you have never been able to see. Infrared radiation comes from warm engines, human bodies and everyday electronics, yet the human retina simply ignores it. Now, researchers in China have built a tiny wearable device that converts some of that…
Ancient Maya Dentists Used Antibiotic Cement to Set Jade Teeth and It Still Holds After 1,000 Years
A tiny piece of green stone is sitting exactly where an ancient Maya dentist put it more than a thousand years ago. The strange part is not only the jade. It is what held it there. Researchers studying Maya dental work have found complex plant-based sealants packed with organic compounds, including substances known for antibacterial…
Scientists Discover a Cellular Switch That Stops Fat Storage and Could Change Obesity Treatment
