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The discoveries, breakthroughs, and open questions shaping how we understand the universe.
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.
The tipping points scientists are watching in 2026
Five thresholds that could reshape the planet's systems within a generation.
Inside the lab chasing room-temperature superconductors
After a year of retractions, one team thinks it finally has the real thing.
What the longest-lived communities eat for breakfast
A decade of data from the world's blue zones points to a few simple constants.
A telescope just captured the birth of a solar system
The sharpest image yet of a protoplanetary disk taking shape around a young star.
The ancient DNA rewriting the story of the first Americans
New sequencing pushes human arrival on the continent back by millennia.
How fungi networks quietly run the forest floor
The underground web trading nutrients between trees is bigger than anyone thought.
The enzyme that eats plastic — and what comes next
Engineered to break down PET in hours, it could reshape recycling.
Astronomers have found the most distant known object
Light from the newly catalogued galaxy left it 300 million years after the Big Bang.