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April 9, 2026
Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too
Improved gene editing process reactivates the fetal version of a hemoglobin gene.
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April 6, 2026
Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science
Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again.
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April 2, 2026
New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian
Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.
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April 2, 2026
Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity
And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables.
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April 1, 2026
Black hole mergers put limits on star-destroying supernovae
Pair instability supernovae create a "mass gap" in black holes.
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March 28, 2026
Getting formal about quantum mechanics' lack of causality
A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.
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March 25, 2026
Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.
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March 24, 2026
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.
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March 23, 2026
US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.
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March 21, 2026
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?
This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.
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March 20, 2026
Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets
Verdict, while not a complete loss, could still cost him billions.
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March 18, 2026
Coal plant forced to stay open due to emergency order isn't even running
Department of Energy's attempts to prop up coal can look pretty pointless.
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March 17, 2026
Trump's plan to shut down weather and climate center triggers lawsuit
Suit: The National Center for Atmospheric Research is to be terminated for no rational reason.
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March 16, 2026
National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
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March 13, 2026
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.
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March 11, 2026
NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist
First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.
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March 11, 2026
Quantum computing meets the Möbius molecule
A complex structure with multiple electrons is within reach of today's hardware.
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March 5, 2026
Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
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March 4, 2026
TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
Plant won't be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license.
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March 4, 2026
Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
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February 27, 2026
Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity
Interactions between neighboring materials is mediated by virtual photons.
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February 26, 2026
Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women
"Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings.
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February 24, 2026
Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.
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February 19, 2026
From chickens to humans, animals think "bouba" sounds round
There seems to be a deep-seated association between sounds and shapes.
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February 18, 2026
Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
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February 18, 2026
Hallucinogen DMT an effective antidepressant in small clinical trial
Effectiveness appears to correlate with self-described mystical experience.
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February 13, 2026
Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself
Self-copying RNAs may have been a key stop along the pathway to life.
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February 12, 2026
EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations
The agency is betting the the Supreme Court will reverse a prior ruling.
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February 12, 2026
Bringing the "functionally extinct" American chestnut back from the dead
Wiped out in its native range by invasive pathogens, the trees may make a comeback.
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February 12, 2026
Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants
The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality.
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