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There’s a new form of boron — and it’s really weird 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 26, 2026
Boron carbide, also known as black diamond, is one of the hardest synthetic substances known. Credit: Science Museum Group/SPL Boron has long intrigued scientists. Its atoms are amenable to many bonding modes, and pure boron can be found in a variety of phases — some clear; some opaque; most poorly conducting; all, so far, superhard.
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How often you should wash your sheets and towels, according to science 0
- HEALTH, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 26, 2026
You’ve had a long day. You can’t wait to get home, take a hot shower, and climb into bed. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Well, we hate to break it to you, but it could actually be incredibly gross. Naturally, everyone’s cleaning routines are different, so this isn’t a blanket statement (pardon the pun). Statistically speaking,
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Lack of female researchers and participants in regenerative-medicine research holds everyone back 0
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- September 26, 2026
Regenerative medicine holds extraordinary promise for transforming the treatment of chronic and life-threatening diseases. Yet the field continues to advance on an incomplete scientific foundation: the underrepresentation of women and non-binary people in both preclinical and clinical research. This is not a minor oversight, but a fundamental limitation that compromises the safety, accuracy and translational
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Daily briefing: Read the text inside a charred, rolled-up scroll 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 26, 2026
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Previous attempts to read charred scrolls have used X-ray CT alone, which assesses carbon-based materials. The technique can’t clearly identify writing because both the ink and papyrus contain carbon. (Jacob LaManna/NIST) Researchers have made their own
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‘Remarkably encouraging’: stem-cell treatments for autoimmune diseases enter new phase 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 26, 2026
Hongkui Deng, who has been working on a trial involving iPSC transplants, is observed by students. By the age of 25, Mingyu, a pseudonym being used to protect her privacy, had already undergone two liver transplants and a pancreas transplant in an effort to treat her type 1 diabetes. In her ten years living with
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Anthropic’s AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What’s next?0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- September 26, 2026
AI agents trawling through genomic data spotted sequences of DNA (artist’s illustration) reminiscent of those in bacterial CRISPR immune systems. Credit: Kateryna Kon/SPL/Getty Sure, AI can parse petabytes of data. But how well can it pipette? Regardless of the answer, artificial intelligence titan Anthropic has launched a biology ‘wet lab’ where human scientists and AI
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