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"Rocks from the Moon's far side are rewriting lunar history."

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Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History   2026-08-02 11:58:42 +00:00 The Moon’s far side is overturning a long-held theory, revealing that the early Solar System’s asteroid assault may have faded slowly instead of exploding in one catastrophic burst. For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes or a much longer period of gradually fading violence. [...] Read more...   NASA’s Curiosity Finds a Vast Sea of Mysterious Polygons on Mars   2026-08-02 11:23:49 +00:00 Curiosity has found a vast sea of Martian polygons that may reveal how water and climate once reshaped the Red Planet. NASA’s Curiosity rover has encountered an enormous field of honeycomb-shaped fractures while climbing through a Martian valley known as “Valle Grande.” Each geometric feature measures roughly 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) [...] Read more...   Astronomers May Have Found the First Moon Beyond Our Solar System   2026-08-02 10:48:48 +00:00 A Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf could become the first confirmed moon beyond our Solar System. A massive object appears to be circling a brown dwarf in the CD-35 2722 system, but calling it a moon is not straightforward. Unlike moons in our Solar System, it does not orbit a planet. Instead, it travels [...] Read more...   Underwater Cameras Expose the Secret Lives of Whale Sharks   2026-08-02 02:31:44 +00:00 Whale sharks use a wider range of feeding strategies and depths than surface observations previously revealed. A whale shark can vanish beneath the surface in seconds, leaving researchers with little idea of what the world’s largest fish does once it disappears from view. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are among the ocean’s most recognizable animals, inspiring [...] Read more...   A Massive Study Reveals the Brain Is Far More Flexible Than We Thought   2026-08-02 01:56:34 +00:00 A single neuron may help the brain recognize what it sees, track what the body is doing, and guide a decision, all at the same time. Most neurons may be far more versatile than scientists once thought. In a major study published in Nature, researchers analyzed more than 14,000 individual neurons across 43 regions of [...] Read more...   Why Dreaming Leaves the Brain Running Low on Energy   2026-08-02 01:21:37 +00:00 The dreaming brain surges with energy, yet its neurons may consume it faster than they can replenish it. A new mouse study from Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising energy imbalance during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. As the brain entered this dream-rich stage, blood volume increased across the cortex, and astrocytes accumulated more metabolic [...] Read more...   Quantum Photons Survive a 24-Kilometer Journey Through Chicago’s Busy Internet   2026-08-01 22:24:05 +00:00 Researchers achieved the first real-world demonstration of quantum entanglement over a busy telecommunications fiber network. A single photon carrying quantum information had to travel more than 24 kilometers through an optical fiber already crowded with powerful internet signals. Despite the noise, it reached downtown Chicago still entangled with its partner at Northwestern University’s Evanston campus. [...] Read more...   Quantum Computing’s “Dark Horse” Just Cleared a Major Hurdle   2026-08-01 21:49:25 +00:00 Researchers demonstrated that braiding and fusing particles known as non-Abelian anyons can perform every operation required by a quantum computer. A quantum computer becomes broadly useful only when it can perform any computation rather than a limited set of specialized tasks. Physicists have now demonstrated that unusual quantum objects called non-Abelian anyons can provide that [...] Read more...   CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter   2026-08-01 21:14:56 +00:00 All four major LHC experiments have found new evidence that collisions between oxygen and neon may produce the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang. Inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), collisions between relatively light oxygen and neon nuclei may be producing matter from the earliest moments of [...] Read more...   Ancient Immune Protein Could Hold the Key to Better Cancer Immunotherapy   2026-08-01 15:53:54 +00:00 A protein known for circulating in the blood to fight infection plays a very different role when produced by cells inside tumors. A protein that emerged long before animals developed circulatory systems may influence whether cancer immunotherapy succeeds. Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan found that complement C3 helps keep immunosuppressive cells out of tumors, [...] Read more...   Study Finds a Surprising Link Between Gut Microbes and Aging   2026-08-01 15:18:04 +00:00 Certain gut bacteria were linked to slower or faster biological aging. The communities of bacteria living in the gut may carry clues about how rapidly the body is aging. Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa found that certain microbial patterns were associated with faster or slower biological aging, adding to evidence that gut [...] Read more...   Frequent Cannabis Users Wake Up With More “Stress Hormone”   2026-08-01 14:43:12 +00:00 Frequent cannabis use was associated with higher cortisol upon waking, suggesting a possible disruption of daily stress rhythms. The body’s stress system follows a daily rhythm, and frequent cannabis users may begin that cycle differently. Research from Oregon State University found that people who use cannabis often wake with higher cortisol levels than nonusers, pointing [...] Read more...   AI Helps Crack an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture With One Tiny Formula   2026-08-01 12:11:05 +00:00 An AI-assisted counterexample disproves the Jacobian conjecture above two dimensions while leaving its original two-dimensional form open. A formula short enough to fit inside a single post on X has sent a surge of excitement through the mathematical community, just as millions of people were settling down after the FIFA World Cup Final. Levent Alpöge, [...] Read more...   A Single Faulty Gene Copy Can Unravel the Heart’s DNA   2026-08-01 11:36:41 +00:00 By studying a gene associated with congenital heart defects, scientists uncovered a mechanism showing how small reductions in protein levels can disrupt DNA’s three-dimensional structure and lead to disease. A baby can inherit one healthy copy of TBX5 and still develop serious heart defects if the other copy does not work. That genetic imbalance is [...] Read more...   Scientists Reveal Hidden DNA Traces in the Shroud of Turin   2026-08-01 11:01:32 +00:00 New research has revealed the complex biological history preserved in DNA traces on the Shroud of Turin. Fibers taken from the Shroud of Turin nearly five decades ago still contain a complex record of biological material accumulated over centuries. In research published in Scientific Reports, scientists applied advanced genomic sequencing (rigorous PCR-free next-generation metagenomic sequencing) [...] Read more...

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