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Science
Arizona State University and University of Utah teams developed catalytic membrane systems to break carbon-fluorine bonds in PFAS.
Science
Researchers did not test the original bone used to name Grus primigenia because it was too precious to drill.
Science
Unexpected reactions with ketones reportedly produced molecules with a boron-oxygen triple bond that had resisted stable isolation.
Science
A Penn State-authored report describes current at sharply curved graphene wrinkles under applied voltage, supporting an older prediction.
Science
A University of Michigan-authored account says the result challenges a proposed role for supernova-driven winds in reionization.
Science
Science China Press reports a proposal that rising magma may have released oxygen into Earth's ancient atmosphere.
Science
A Max Planck Institute-authored account says five of 54 samples yielded ancient human DNA, including unpainted surfaces.
Science
A user says engineers sharpened Roman's view by moving a mirror one-sixteenth the width of a human hair.
Science
Using museum specimens, scientists are tracing a deadly fungus linked to mysterious frog disappearances in Brazil decades ago, SciTechDaily says.
Science
SciTechDaily's NASA Earth Observatory article cites Douglas Morton attributing most fires then burning in the Brazilian Amazon to people.
Science
A post says laser pulses on PET film produce roughly 10 trillion nanodiamonds each, about 3 nanometers wide.
Science
A post says the material rivals concrete in strength and points to Arctic construction as a possible use.
Technology
Former editor Adam Rogers recalls Theranos’s lack of published peer-reviewed data; interviewer Caitlin Roper believes the Q&A helped promote Holmes.
Science
New Scientist reports that the mission aims to return a sample that may reveal how Phobos and Deimos formed.
Science
MIT News reports researchers used lipid nanoparticles to deliver mRNA directly to natural killer cells in mice.
Science
A post shares a headline describing the fossil as a decades-long source of confusion for scientists.
Science
A post says the scanner can spot cancer before it becomes visible.
Science
An October 2026 post presents the figure as a finding by scientists about reefs worldwide.
Science
NSIDC says the light-absorbing waste melts snow, while rising temperatures expand habitats for the algae it fertilizes.
Science
HITpol says the NASA rover’s findings point to a Martian water history that was far more complicated than expected.