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Vaccinating Tiny Fish Is a Big Problem. These Silk Needles Work Underwater.
Tiny trout can need protection before ordinary injections are practical. A silk microneedle design tackles the underwater delivery problem—but farm-scale use still needs work.
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They Spent 378 Days on Fake Mars. Coming Home Meant Opening a Door in Houston.
Four volunteers emerged from NASA’s Mars simulation after 378 days of delayed messages and isolation. They even formed a band—and their work is not finished.
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Patrick Stewart, Star Trek’s Captain Picard and X-Men’s Professor X, Dies at 86
Patrick Stewart, the Shakespearean actor who defined Captain Picard and Professor X for generations, has died at 86. We remember the humanity he brought to genre storytelling.
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Antarctica’s Vega Island Looks Like a Grinning Skull From Space—Here’s What Makes the Face
NASA’s Landsat 9 photographed a skull-like face on Antarctica’s Vega Island. The eye, mouth and jaw are real landscape features—and the changing ice matters.
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A Lost 1926 Film Starring Drew Barrymore’s Grandmother Survived in a Sydney Helicopter Hangar
The complete silent film The Little Irish Girl was thought lost for decades. Its damaged nitrate reels survived in a Sydney helicopter hangar—and archivists saved them.
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A Firefly Missing for 43 Years Was Found by Its Amber Flash—Then Confirmed in Two States
A firefly missing from the scientific record since 1983 was rediscovered in Virginia and Delaware by the rapid amber flash sequence that sets it apart.
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A Museum Put 120 Dachshund Artworks on Display—and Lets Real Sausage Dogs Visit
Kunsthalle Bremen’s new exhibition gathers around 120 dachshund artworks—and welcomes small dogs into three galleries on selected days.
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A Celtic Helmet Was Crushed in a Polish Ritual Pit—Far From Where It Belonged
A deliberately crushed Celtic bronze helmet found with tools in a Polish ritual pit may reveal something larger: southern traders—or people—at a Baltic amber hub.
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Stephen Colbert’s Trapdoor Spider Has a Genome Bigger Than Ours—and 77% Is Repetition
A quarter-sized trapdoor spider named for Stephen Colbert has an estimated 4.6-billion-base-pair genome. The surprise is what fills it—and why that matters.
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Two Museums Bet Monets on the World Series—The Winning City Gets Both
Milwaukee and St. Petersburg museums wagered two Claude Monet paintings on the 2026 World Series. The winning city will temporarily display both.