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Astronomers confirmed the first detection of an atmosphere on LHS 1140 b, a rocky super-Earth 48 light-years away in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Published in Science, the Harvard-led study found helium escaping from the planet using the WINERED spectrograph. It does not confirm life — but it is as close as we have gotten.
A machine learning system published in The BMJ analyzed 2.6 million cancer research papers and flagged more than 250,000 for matching paper mill patterns. The share of suspicious studies grew from 1% in the early 2000s to over 16% by 2022, with researchers warning that generative AI is accelerating the problem.
NASA selected 41 proposals from 37 U.S. companies on July 15, 2026 to develop technologies for sustained Moon operations and crewed Mars missions. The agency provides roughly $30 million in resources through collaboration agreements, not direct funding.
A University of Illinois study published in PNAS found that decision-making signals appear as early as the primary somatosensory cortex, the brain's first touch-processing region, through bidirectional feedback loops from higher brain areas. The finding challenges the feed-forward model used to design most AI systems today.
A new PNAS study from the University of Illinois found that decision-making signals appear in the brain's earliest sensory regions, not just in the frontal cortex. The finding could reshape both neuroscience and the architecture of future AI systems.
A Harvard-led team published a paper in Nature Electronics describing a chip that synthesizes 64 DNA sequences simultaneously using electric currents and water-based enzymes, bypassing the toxic solvents that conventional DNA manufacturing relies on.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine found that mRNA cancer vaccines generate strong anti-tumor responses even when the immune cell type long believed essential is completely absent, revealing a backup mechanism involving cDC2 dendritic cells.
Harvard researchers published a study in Nature Electronics describing a silicon chip that synthesizes 64 distinct DNA sequences simultaneously using electrical currents and water-based enzymes. The advance sets a new benchmark for enzymatic DNA synthesis and could eventually reduce the cost of producing custom genetic material for gene therapy.
Imperial College London researchers published in Nature the first real-world proof that differential atom interferometry can cancel laser noise under realistic conditions, opening a path to detectors capable of finding dark matter and gravitational waves in frequency bands no current instrument can reach.
The SuperC consortium used machine learning to identify two new superconductors and build a pipeline capable of screening billions of material candidates. Their target: a room-temperature superconductor by 2033 that could slash global energy consumption in computing and power transmission.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory published a quantum control protocol that makes quantum systems behave as if time is running in reverse. The breakthrough, published in Physical Review X, could improve quantum computing and enable energy harvesting from the measurement process itself.
Researchers can now make a quantum system appear to run backward in time by controlling quantum measurements. The technique harvests energy from the measurement process itself and points toward better quantum computers and next-generation energy storage.
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