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Webb’s ‘Impossible’ Black Holes May Be Smaller Than They Look
Some early black holes look too massive for their young galaxies. A fresh look at their missing X-rays offers a different explanation: smaller objects feeding furiously.
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Scientists Are Giving Repair Cells an Address for Fragile Bones
A small human trial has tested a striking approach to osteoporosis: changing the sugar coating on a patient’s own cells to help them reach bone marrow. The early signals are promising, but this is still experimental medicine.
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AMD ROCm 10 Uses AI to Challenge Nvidia’s Software Grip
AMD is putting its engineering knowledge inside AI coding assistants. ROCm 10 targets a less visible part of the chip battle: making powerful hardware easier to use.
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Australia’s Solar Boom Is Getting a Battery the Whole Street Can Share
ARENA has reached 100 community battery installations. The next challenge is turning shared storage into a useful deal for households—including people without solar panels.
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Chrome Is Updating Twice as Often as AI Changes the Security Race
Google has halved the wait between major Chrome releases as AI helps uncover more security flaws. But a faster update can still get stuck at the last step: your browser restart.
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A Gene Therapy for Childhood Epilepsy Is Aiming Beyond Seizures
ETX101 is producing early signals of fewer seizures and developmental gains in children with Dravet syndrome. Its next challenge is proving those benefits in a controlled trial.
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Old EV Batteries Are Back at Work on Texas’s Power Grid
A new Texas storage project is putting used electric-car batteries back to work. The clever part is getting packs with different histories to behave like one dependable system.
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NASA’s New Telescope Is Preparing to Reveal Planets Hidden in Starlight
NASA has switched on Roman’s advanced planet imager. Its next challenge is to suppress the glare of distant stars and reveal worlds that have been lost in the light.
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Google’s New AI Wants to Predict the Rush Before It Happens
Google’s TimesFM-3 looks for patterns across connected streams of data, from sales to planned promotions. Its practical promise is compelling, but the downloadable model has a significant restriction.
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A New CAR-T Therapy Takes Aim at Myeloma After Earlier Treatments Fail
Experimental therapy arlo-cel has met key goals in a Phase 2 myeloma trial. Its different cancer-cell target could matter—but the detailed results are still missing.
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Tesla’s New Texas Factory Is Building Batteries Too Big for a Car
Megapack 3 production has started in Texas. Tesla’s expansion connects a new manufacturing line with a much bigger challenge: getting stored electricity onto the grid when it is needed.
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SpaceX’s Next Power Move Is a Giant Upgrade to Starlink
SpaceX’s next-generation satellites and Starship are designed to reinforce each other. That combination could give its internet network a powerful new growth engine.