Science
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AI-designed viruses clear peer review, then an independent check finds them close relatives of the natural original
Science published the Stanford and Arc Institute bacteriophage work on 6 August 2026. Six days later an Oxford researcher reported that the 16 working
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Arizona physicists shift the quantum noise inside a light pulse, and watch it move in real time
A University of Arizona group has produced squeezed light pulses lasting 5.3 femtoseconds, which its paper in Light: Science and Applications calls th
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Artemis II flew four people 252,756 miles from Earth in April, but the first landing is now Artemis IV in 2028
NASA launched Artemis II on 1 April 2026 and splashed down on 10 April after a flight that reached 252,756 miles from Earth. NASA's own mission page n
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Nature names MoM-BH*-1, but the black hole star idea dates to March 2025 and is still contested
A team led by Rohan Naidu published MoM-BH*-1 in Nature on 12 August 2026, a black hole wrapped in a gas envelope about 1,000 astronomical units acros
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STAR sees twice the baryons the quark picture predicts, in a paper first posted in August 2024
The STAR collaboration reports in Science on 16 August 2026, DOI 10.1126/science.ads5962, that nuclear collisions produce roughly twice as many baryon
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A False Claims Act case against Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa is now unsealed
An amended qui tam complaint in United States ex rel Alperin v Elsevier, case 1:24-cv-10603-ADB in the District of Massachusetts, was filed on 23 July
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About half the money in the terminated NIH grants had already been spent when they were cancelled
A PNAS analysis published on 23 March 2026 finds 2,291 active NIH grants terminated between 28 February and 22 August 2025, drawn from $5.08 billion c
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Isotopes in comet 3I/ATLAS point to an old, metal poor star, with very wide error bars
ESO announced on 6 July 2026 the first isotopic fingerprint of a comet formed outside the Solar System. The VLT measured a carbon ratio of 147 and a n
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