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Scientists just used trace DNA in animal droppings to find one of Australia’s last 150 Gilbert’s potoroos — a critically endangered marsupial still clinging to existence

A plant long thought extinct in Australia just turned up in the background of a hiker’s random photo — the first confirmed sighting in nearly 60 years

A tiny falcon just logged a brand-new breeding range in South America — birdwatchers now tracking the smallest raptor in the Western Hemisphere pushing steadily northward

A camera strapped to a wild Alaskan bear just caught the animal building tools to crack open salmon skulls — behavior scientists had never seen in any bear before

Scientists just caught cells quietly copying their DNA but forgetting to split in two — leaving them with double the genetic material in a glitch now tied to cancer and aging

Drinking nitrate-rich beetroot juice just reshaped the bacteria inside older adults’ mouths in ways that quietly lowered their blood pressure

A new map of the smell receptors inside the nose just overturned the textbook picture scientists have used for decades — the receptors cluster where no one said they would

UT Southwestern just uncovered a hidden ‘master switch’ that decides how much cholesterol the liver pumps into the bloodstream — and how to turn it off

Scientists just found that beans, lentils, chickpeas, and tofu cut the risk of high blood pressure by almost 30% — a plant-based pantry that doubles as a drug

A coronal hole on the sun is pointing a fast stream of solar wind right at Earth — forecasters say the northern lights could slip into the northern states this week

Astronomers just tagged ultra-heavy atomic nuclei as the best suspect for the cosmos’s highest-energy rays — particles powerful enough to outpunch anything built on Earth

Jupiter once spawned a family of tiny worlds from a ring of dust just outside its orbit — a ‘planetesimal factory’ that cranked out generation after generation of asteroids

A new plasma simulation just cracked how the universe builds its vast magnetic fields out of pure turbulence — knitting tangled magnetic threads across the cosmos

Astronomers just discovered more than 100 new worlds hiding inside NASA’s TESS data — including 31 brand-new planets and extreme worlds that whip around their stars in a day

McGill scientists just supercharged the body’s natural killer cells to punch through the walls tumors build to survive — restoring an immune defense cancer had switched off

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake just rattled the Kermadec Trench northeast of New Zealand — one of the strongest jolts anywhere on the planet in the past 24 hours

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