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The Jumping Gene That Escaped Into a Virus — and May Still Be Moving in Us
500 Million Years After the Big Bang, Galaxies Were Already Seeding the Cosmos With Heavy Elements
JWST spectra of three galaxies seen as they were 13 billion years ago show carbon, oxygen, and silicon streaming into intergalactic space — the earliest direct evidence of baryon cycling.
Quantum Computing's 'Dark Horse' Just Proved It Can Go Universal
Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum's H2 processor, researchers braided and fused non-Abelian anyons to demonstrate a complete universal gate set — the first hardware proof this topological route can do any quantum computation.
The Moon Had a Magnetic Field — and Two New Studies Just Found Fresh Traces of It
A buried volcanic complex on the far side and a nanoscale 'magnetic fossil' in Chang'e-6 samples are giving scientists their sharpest look yet at the Moon's long-dead dynamo.
An AI Just Found a New Enzyme System in Virus DNA — and Nobody Knows What It Does
Roughly 950 AI agents spent 21 hours scanning public DNA databases and surfaced ART, a CRISPR-like system in bacterial viruses. Human scientists confirmed it in the lab — but what it actually does remains a mystery.
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An AI Just Found a New Enzyme System in Virus DNA — and Nobody Knows What It Does
The Moon Had a Magnetic Field — and Two New Studies Just Found Fresh Traces of It
Quantum Computing's 'Dark Horse' Just Proved It Can Go Universal
500 Million Years After the Big Bang, Galaxies Were Already Seeding the Cosmos With Heavy Elements