The Milky Way Has a Thin Disk, a Thick Disk, and a Huge Halo
The Milky Way’s thin disk is about 700 light-years high, its thick disk is about 3,000 light-years high, and its…
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Historical Mysteries Are Past Events With Incomplete Evidence
A historical mystery is a past event, person, or claim that cannot yet be fully explained from the surviving evidence.Historiography…
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The Flynn Effect Has Slowed and in Some Places Reversed
The Flynn Effect is the long-run rise in average scores on standardized cognitive tests over the 20th century, and the…
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Ethyl Formate Gave the Milky Way Its Raspberries-and-rum Reputation
The Milky Way gets the “raspberries and rum” line because astronomers detected ethyl formate in a dust cloud near the…
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The Kumari Tradition Makes a Child the Living Goddess of Nepal
The Kumari of Nepal is a prepubescent Newar Shakya girl chosen to embody Taleju Bhawani, worshipped as a living goddess,…
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Daraxonrasib Resets Pancreatic Cancer Math; SoftBank Bets Big on French Compute; Palo Alto Bug Hits Live Networks
The dominant story is daraxonrasib, a pancreatic cancer pill whose phase 3 data put a hard number on a field…
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MRNA adjuvant boosts T-cell responses in mice
MIT- and Harvard-linked researchers reported on 13 May that an mRNA-encoded adjuvant built from NIK and IRF8 boosted T-cell responses…
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Enamel proteins link Homo erectus to Denisovan ancestry
A Nature paper published on 13 May reports that researchers recovered enamel proteins from six Chinese Homo erectus fossils, adding…
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Stroke Stem Cells Repaired Mouse Brains: But Not Quite Reversed Damage
Researchers at the University of Zurich and collaborators reported on September 16, 2025 that stroke stem cells improved long-term recovery…
