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MIT and Dana-Farber reported the first total synthesis of verticillin A, isolated in 1970. N-sulfonylated variants, not the natural product, were the most potent against diffuse midline glioma cells in…

Autumn Taurid fireballs are a sky show this season. Researchers say any higher airburst risk from a Comet Encke resonant swarm would come when Earth passes that stream in 2032…

Lecce scientists forced polariton light into a supersolid in 2025, and a perovskite nanograting experiment later showed the same crystal-and-flow phase at room temperature.

After a 434-day elliptical flight and an aerobraking landing at Vandenberg, the Space Force X-37B went back up as OTV-8 with a quantum inertial sensor and a laser communications test.

Colossal's woolly mice grew mammoth-like coats. Ben Lamm then moved the calf timeline into the early 2030s after the edit list passed 150 genes.

The 13,600-year-old mastodon skull excavated in Wayne County in 2024 is back at Prairie Trails Museum in Corydon. The bones were never mineralized, and a ribbon cutting was set for…

Tomorrow.Bio is commissioning a warmer whole-body storage tank in Switzerland. Alcor and the Cryonics Institute still hold hundreds of patients in liquid nitrogen. No human has been revived.

Large low-shear-velocity provinces under Africa and the Pacific are not twins. 2025 and 2026 papers split the origin between recycled seafloor, a billion years of stillness, and possible Theia debris.

The 18th Space Defense Squadron reacquired object 7244, a 1974 infrared calibration balloon that failed to inflate. It may be a dispenser fragment, and it has barely lost altitude.

A Matter study mapped the ethanol-water clusters that make beer taste more alcoholic near 41°F, while warmed baijiu moves the other way. Later spectra say the mixture may not even…