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Optogenetics, recognized by the 2026 medicine Nobel, makes cells respond to light, including eye cells that normally relay ...

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Microblazars — a miniature version of blazars — may be responsible for mysterious ultra-high-energy particles.

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A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales ...

One theory points to a long-awaited supersymmetric particle called a ‘higgsino.’ But that idea has some issues.

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