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Scripps Research just identified a molecular “switch” — a protein called STING — that keeps Alzheimer brain inflammation burning long after the original trigger fades

MIT discovered 30% of the brain’s synapses are “silent” — dormant connections that sit waiting until the brain calls them in to learn something new

Japanese physicists just built a method to instantly detect quantum “W states” — a step toward faster quantum teleportation and a new class of communication systems

A global predation map just confirmed the smallest dolphin species in coastal waters carry more shark bite scars than the giants — bite risk flips with body size

New DNA from ancient European graves shows hunter-gatherers and the first farmers crossed paths far more than textbooks ever assumed — women drove the spread

Doctors are testing two existing cancer drugs — letrozole and irinotecan — to reverse Alzheimer brain damage in mice, with tau plaques clearing and memory returning in trials

A 3 mg melatonin pill before daytime sleep just boosted night shift workers’ DNA repair by 80% — the first trial built to test the link

Kilauea’s Episode 48 lava fountains could ignite within hours — USGS bumped the alert to WATCH on Saturday after 16 days of pause and fresh overflows from the south vent

A bizarre new fossil crocodile relative just turned up that ran more like an ostrich than an alligator — researchers calling it the strangest reptile build ever found

Indonesia’s Saleh Bay and Cenderawasih Bay are the only two places on Earth that hold whale sharks year-round — 60% of the global population now traced to 13 nations

Northwestern researchers just zeroed in on the wrong kind of learning that drives Parkinson’s tremors — pointing toward treatments that retrain the brain instead of medicating it

Egyptian archaeologists just pulled gold-foil-wrapped mummies with golden tongues from Roman-period tombs at Al-Bahnasa in Minya — the burial style preserved intact

A CME from the Sun delivered a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field this weekend — Kp 4 readings, just below the threshold of a minor geomagnetic storm

A daily multivitamin slowed all five epigenetic aging clocks in a randomized trial — people who started biologically older saw the biggest benefit

Brown and Michigan scientists just stacked silver nanoparticles like LEGO bricks and locked in a never-before-seen crystal phase of matter at room temperature

Webb just clocked the speed at which the most massive star clusters clear the gas clouds that build them — far faster than smaller clusters, rewriting how stars are born

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