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A DNA double helix threads through the landscape of living tissue, its branches reaching toward the organs that age on their own clocks — muscle, brain, liver, fat. The body does not grow old all at once.

The Synchronized Clock: Is Aging a Body-Wide Orchestration?

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Self portrait, Image credit: Dr. Junyue Cao The Synchronized Clock: Is Aging a Body-Wide Orchestration? A large-scale single-cell atlas suggests that aging is coordinated across tissues and begins earlier than previously assumed Editor’s Note Aging is often described as a gradual accumulation of damage within individual tissues. Recent work by Dr. Junyue Cao and colleagues […]

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Inside a living bacterium, a reconstructed nitrogenase enzyme — its iron-sulfur backbone rendered in the rust-red of ancient metal — glows at the cell's core. The rock that cradles it is Archean. So is the molecule. Only the cell is new.

The Molecule That Did Not Change

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Holly Rucker, doctoral candidate in the Kaçar Lab, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her study “Resurrected nitrogenases recapitulate canonical N-isotope biosignatures over two billion years” was published in Nature Communications on January 22, 2026. Photo: Kaçar Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Holly Rucker on resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme, reading life from rocks, and what it

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A mind without a center — intelligence as the brain's global architecture, not any single region.

The Architecture of Intelligence

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Ramsey Wilcox. Image courtesy of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Notre Dame How the brain’s global organization, not any single region, gives rise to the mind’s remarkable unity Editor’s Note For much of modern neuroscience, the search for intelligence resembled a cartographic exercise. Researchers mapped the brain as though its most complex abilities might

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For most of modern science, large sections of life's instruction manual have remained unreadable.

AlphaGenome

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AlphaGenome How Google DeepMind’s AI is unlocking the 98% of our genome science couldn’t read Editor’s Note For decades, the human genome has been described as the ultimate biological blueprint, yet large sections of it, the so-called “non-coding” regions, remained a silent language we could not translate. We understood the individual letters, but the complex

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Cloud-9 located approximately 16 million light-years from Earth. Magenta represents VLA radio data detecting hydrogen gas; the dashed circle marks where Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys confirmed the absence of stars, proving this is a starless gas cloud dominated by dark matter rather than a dim dwarf galaxy. Visible objects are background galaxies.

Cloud-9: The Failed Galaxy That Proves Dark Matter Theory Right

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Dr. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay, principal investigator of the Cloud-9 discovery. Image credit: Dr. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay How Hubble’s dark matter-dominated gas cloud offers a rare window into cosmic structure In the vast cosmic tapestry where galaxies blaze with the light of billions of stars, astronomers have discovered something profoundly different: a starless ghost. Known as Cloud-9, this

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Artist's visualization of remotely entangled nuclear spins coupled via electron-mediated geometric gates.

A Twenty-Nanometer Breakthrough: Electron-Mediated Coupling Advances Silicon Qubit Scaling

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The race to build a practical quantum computer has produced numerous competing technologies, each with distinct advantages and limitations. Among these approaches, nuclear spin-based quantum computing in silicon stands out for its compatibility with existing semiconductor manufacturing and…

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