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MIT and Harvard Medical School reported the first total synthesis of (+)-verticillin A, isolated in 1970. A 16-step route from beta-hydroxytryptophan produced the natural product and designed variants. Derivatives cut…

A 2025 Acta Astronautica paper says a Jupiter-herded Taurid swarm, if it exists, would pass Earth in November 2032 and June 2036. Researchers want targeted telescope surveys, not panic.

A CNR Nanotec-led team reported in Nature that a photonic-crystal polariton condensate can be solid and superfluid at once. The Lecce experiment measured density order to parts in a thousand…

The X-37B ended OTV-7 at Vandenberg after 434 days in a highly elliptical orbit. Six months later OTV-8 launched from Kennedy with a quantum inertial sensor and laser communications gear…

Colossal Biosciences announced woolly mice in March 2025 after editing seven mouse genes to mimic mammoth coat and fat traits. The mice bred and kept the coat. CEO Ben Lamm…

The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist dug a 12-day excavation in August 2024 after a fall 2022 find on private land. Radiocarbon dating put the animal at…

Tomorrow.Bio, Alcor, and the Cryonics Institute store legally dead patients in liquid nitrogen for six-figure fees. No human has been revived. Organ vitrification research is advancing. Whole-body revival is not.

Two Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces sit about 1,800 miles down under Africa and the Pacific. 2025 papers argue they are chemically unalike, ancient, and tied to recycled seafloor rather than a…

The U.S. Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron rediscovered S73-7, a 1974 Infra-Red Calibration Balloon that had been untracked for 25 years.

A Matter study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows ethanol-water clusters at about 41°F make typical beer taste more ethanol-like when it is ice cold.