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The discoveries, breakthroughs, and open questions shaping how we understand the universe — from the quantum scale to the cosmic.
The telescope that keeps finding galaxies too old to exist
Every new deep field pushes the first galaxies earlier — and forces cosmologists to ask whether the standard model of the universe is missing something fundamental.
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A new map of the human brain, cell by cell
Researchers have catalogued more than 3,000 cell types in the most detailed atlas yet.
A telescope just captured the birth of a solar system
The sharpest image yet of a protoplanetary disk taking shape around a young star.
Astronomers have found the most distant known object
Light from the newly catalogued galaxy left it 300 million years after the Big Bang.
How fungi networks quietly run the forest floor
The underground web trading nutrients between trees is bigger than anyone thought.
Inside the lab chasing room-temperature superconductors
After a year of retractions, one team thinks it finally has the real thing.
The ancient DNA rewriting the story of the first Americans
New sequencing pushes human arrival on the continent back by millennia.
