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Why Warming Autumns Are Making Finland’s Lakes Colder Under the Ice

A new study of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS led by the University of Michigan shows that its water has a remarkably high content of deuterium. This form of hydrogen is comparatively less abundant in our solar system, enabling researchers to glean new insights about other planetary processes at work in our galaxy. Image credit: Hans Anderson, Michigan News

Interstellar Comet Carries Water Unlike Anything in Our Solar System

The team fabricated ball-and-stick structures resembling tiny lollipops. The structures were less than a millimeter in height, with balls that were smaller than a grain of sand. The balls were infused with magnetic particles.

Tiny Robots Move with Nothing But a Magnet Swipe

Jets of energetic particles streaming away from the black hole Cygnus X-1 (at left in this artist’s rendering) bend in the stellar wind from the supergiant star paired in orbit with the black hole. Researchers used the extent of the bending to produce the first measurement of the power of a black hole’s jets. IMAGE: ICRAR/CURTIN UNIVERSITY

How Scientists Finally Weighed a Black Hole’s Most Violent Outburst

MIT researchers have uncovered how a class of materials known as relaxor ferroelectrics acquire their distinctive properties. The key lies in tiny shifts of atoms, or charged regions, that generate electric polarization within the material. The image shows a sample alongside a reconstructed map of these polar displacements, with colors indicating the average displacement in each domain.

Hidden Atomic Structure Behind Your Ultrasound Machine Has Finally Been Mapped

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Why the Fat in Olive Oil May Be Fueling Pancreatic Cancer

A digital illustration depicting a human brain with glowing neural connections, surrounded by floating creatine molecules

Hundreds of Autism Genes All Break the Brain the Same Way

This image shows a microscopic view of E. coli bacteria, a species with an intimate relationship with humans.

Virus Teaches Bacteria to Eat Plastic 5x Faster Than Evolution Can Manage

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Aging Immune Cells May Betray the Hidden Face of Depression

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AI Is Learning to Spot Liars by Watching Your Face, Voice, and Words at Once

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Living Plastic Can Self-Destruct on Command

Water molecules play an active, essential role in gene transcription, helping RNA polymerase II carry out the chemical steps needed to read DNA and build RNA.

The Hidden Architects of Your DNA: How Water Molecules Drive Gene Transcription

Doctoral candidate Vinayak Vinayak prepares to image a sample of chromatin, the bundled form DNA takes in the nucleus.

A 1940s Math Trick Just Unlocked the Hidden Rules Written Inside Your DNA

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Traumatized Children Have Friends and Family Around Them. They’re Still Completely Alone

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