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WatchDaraxonrasib, a new RAS-targeting pill, extended median survival to 13.2 months versus 6.7 for chemotherapy in a 500-patient trial — a 60% reduction in the risk of death from one of medicine's deadliest cancers.
A University of Illinois team built working chips with three layers of silicon transistors stacked directly atop one another, achieving near-perfect yields with a low-temperature process that had long stumped the industry.
Salk Institute scientists found that dietary methionine protected animals from severe infection and sepsis not by attacking the invader, but by helping the kidneys flush out the body's own runaway inflammatory molecules.
Compounds fusing vitamin K with retinoic acid were three times better than natural vitamin K at turning stem cells into neurons, pointing to a possible new front against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
A Hokkaido University team found that whether a cell with a doubled genome lives or dies depends on how the division error occurred, pointing to a possible vulnerability in recurring tumors.
Researchers used AI to analyze CT scans from tens of thousands of adults and found that people with healthier thymuses lived longer and had substantially lower risks of heart disease, cancer, and death.
Study finds sponges shed measurable plastic particles as they wear down, but water consumption remains the bigger environmental concern.
Great apes organize friendships into inner circles and broader networks, with chimpanzees becoming more selective with age while bonobos maintain egalitarian relationships.
Scientists develop a system using laser-textured metal panels that converts seawater to drinking water while recovering salts as valuable solids, potentially including lithium for batteries.
New research reveals that weight loss through intermittent fasting involves rewiring both gut bacteria and brain regions that control appetite and cravings.
New genetic evidence reveals complex interactions between hunter-gatherers and farmers, with women likely playing crucial roles in spreading agriculture across northwestern Europe thousands of years ago.
Scientists discovered that the planet's northern lights drive powerful atmospheric winds that create electrical currents, solving a decades-old puzzle.
Researchers found that sleep loss damages brain circuits responsible for social memory, but caffeine can restore communication between neurons and reverse memory deficits.
Johns Hopkins research reveals that combining cannabis edibles with alcohol may impair drivers far more than either substance alone, while standard field sobriety tests often fail to detect the impairment.
James Webb Space Telescope reveals that Saturn's aurora creates powerful winds that generate electrical currents, making the planet appear to change rotation rates.
Wrens on St Kilda and Shetland have grown to nearly twice the size of their mainland cousins. University of Birmingham researchers say their distinct genes and songs suggest they are quietly evolving apart.
By switching off a genetic brake on nerve growth — and repurposing a decades-old hormone drug — University of Cambridge researchers coaxed damaged human neurons to regenerate, raising hopes for spinal injury, MS and motor neurone disease.
Using gentle electric pulses and platinum contact lenses, chemists at Occidental and UC Irvine molded the corneas of rabbit eyes to correct nearsightedness in about a minute — with no cutting and no laser.
Museum specimens reveal the extinct reptiles were saltwater crocodiles that drifted 3,000 kilometers across the Indian Ocean before being wiped out by settlers.
Accelerating sea-ice loss flipped the Arctic from a system limited by light to one starved of nitrate, choking the nutrient supply that underpins the entire polar food web.
Sediment cores from 83-million-year-old deposits in China show precession-driven cycles drove abrupt wet-dry swings even in an ice-free greenhouse world — a cautionary analogue for our warming future.
Scientists discover the extinct island reptiles were saltwater crocodiles that drifted thousands of kilometers across the Indian Ocean before being wiped out by settlers.
A technique called Flux-Switching Floquet Engineering produces exotic, noise-resistant quantum phases that could help solve one of quantum computing's biggest problems.
Researchers at Texas A&M developed a treatment that improved memory and cognitive function for months after just two doses by reducing inflammation and restoring brain energy systems.
The giant exoplanet WASP-94A b has a bizarre daily weather cycle where mineral clouds appear every morning and disappear by evening, giving scientists unprecedented insights into alien atmospheres.
XMM-VID1-2075, identified by a UC Davis–led team using JWST's NIRSpec integral-field spectrograph and published in Nature Astronomy on May 4, has a rotation-to-dispersion ratio below 0.3 — making it dynamically indistinguishable from fossil galaxies that should not exist for another five billion years.
Penn State astronomers used a seven-hour transit and 20 hours of baseline observations with the Webb telescope to detect methane at an unprecedented 11-sigma confidence level, with hints of ammonia and carbon dioxide, opening the first clean window into a planet class that fills the gap between hot Jupiters and our own solar system.
Texas A&M researchers report that just two doses improved memory and cognitive function for months by reducing inflammation and restoring cellular energy systems.
Scientists discovered the mysterious Asian snake represents five distinct evolutionary lineages, including three completely unknown to science until now.
Texas A&M researchers develop therapy that calms brain inflammation and restores cognitive function after just two doses, raising hopes for dementia treatments.