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U.S. neutrino megaproject takes shape in abandoned gold mine
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Particle physicists hope DUNE will finally settle the biggest open questions in their most coherent picture of the universe, the Standard Model. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) project and government representatives commemorated the start of the facility’s construction by signing the first steel beam to be sent underground. “Everything about DUNE is unprecedented: the most intense neutrino beam, the biggest liquid argon detectors, the longest distance neutrinos will travel,” Gollapinni says. Japan’s Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) neutrino experiment is on track to start taking data in 2028. Meanwhile China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment released its first results late last year.

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Pentagon releases trove of new UFO files, but skeptics aren’t impressed
NEWS | 10 May 2026
By providing your email address, you also consent to having the email address shared with third parties for those purposes. The Pentagon is starting to release files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), or unidentified flying objects (UFOs). It includes photographs, videos and documents gathered from across federal agencies. Previously, in 2021, the Pentagon published a report investigating UAP that found no evidence linking such phenomena to aliens or extraterrestrial activity. Independent researcher and UAP skeptic Mick West says that while the release includes new videos and pilot reports, there is “nothing really interesting” to be found so far.

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There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise shipThere is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on oneAn outbreak of hantavirus onboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has thrown a spotlight on the rare but deadly infection and the lack of options for treatment and prevention. How long has your team been working on hantavirus vaccines? I work at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, which has been working on hantavirus vaccines since around the 1980s. In humans, the Andes DNA vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies, which are important for protection, so the vaccine looks promising. It can protect animal models from Andes virus and three other hantavirus strains.

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New evidence links heart disease to inflammation—and drugs can stop it
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Mysteriously, these “low-risk” heart disease patients actually have the worst outcomes. Heart disease is “a disease of inflammation,” says Kathryn Moore, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine. These drugs are prescribed primarily for their ability to lower levels of LDL cholesterol, a known driver of heart disease. Ultimately the hope is not merely to prevent heart attacks and strokes but to stop atherosclerosis and heart disease before they start. Ultimately the hope is not merely to prevent heart attacks and strokes but to stop atherosclerosis and heart disease before they start.

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SPONSORED | 10 May 2026
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An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Many birds were flying over the heads of T. rex and Triceratops when the asteroid hit, and most died alongside their dinosaur cousins. This tree showed that birds evolved from dinosaurs piecemeal over tens of millions of years. Certainly these assets gave birds a leg up compared with the other dinosaurs and the various other animals that died. In fact, many birds were also extinguished in the fire and fury of the asteroid. Many birds were also extinguished by the fire and fury of the asteroid.

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How to build a space hotel
NEWS | 10 May 2026
When astronauts first step onboard commercial space stations, the experience will be unlike anything they’ve encountered before. But the idea of luxury living in space—something commercial space station operators are so far being careful not to promise—can seem like an oxymoron. For instance, the International Space Station (ISS) is cramped, smelly and filled with crumbs and dead skin cells. “The challenges of keeping a space station functional are very underappreciated.”The first of four planned commercial space stations, Haven-1 from California-based company Vast, is set to launch early in 2027. Sleep will be a key part of making commercial space stations feel homey, says Anastasia Prosina, founder of space consultancy firm Stellar Amenities and a commercial space-habitat-development consultant based in California.

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How chemists engineer the signature smells of luxury perfumes
NEWS | 10 May 2026
There’s a story in each one.”For thousands of years perfume ingredients were simply distilled from flowers or extracted from plants. Then, in 1868, the first organic scent molecules were synthesized, opening a panorama of new olfactory possibilities. The luxury market’s appetite for new scent molecules draws on neurobiology: smell is tightly bound to emotion and memory. One side of the machine is a glass chamber containing 300 perfume ingredients; the other is a computer screen. “It’s nowhere near being a finished perfume,” Nilsen shrugs, “but it just makes you happy, doesn’t it?”

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The engineering marvels hidden inside six-figure watches
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Take the first silent vibrating alarm developed for a mechanical watch that debuted in 2019. Mechanical watches are little, miraculous pieces of engineering that still draw on many of the same techniques developed hundreds of years ago. Wang: The Speedmaster Moonwatch is the tool watch with one of the best-known connections to real-life history. At the same time, tool watches are continuing to be advanced. Also, tool watches are a great testing ground for advancements in the movements.

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Surprising ways that sunlight might heal autoimmune diseases
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Now scientists are hoping to decipher the pathways through which UV light causes the immune system to back down from its alarm state. This finding was a breakthrough in our understanding of how skin cancer develops, but it also seemed nonsensical from an evolutionary perspective. How could it possibly be beneficial for our immune system to relax in the presence of a common carcinogen? PLE sufferers develop itchy rashes and plaques after sun exposure, but they are less likely to develop skin cancer. Skin cancer was known to be caused by sunlight, but Apperly suggested that something about the sun was also conferring protection against internal cancers.

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New treatments can free kids from the deadly threat of peanut allergy
NEWS | 10 May 2026
“One out of 10 individuals in the U.S., more than 33 million, has a food allergy,” says Sung Poblete, CEO of Food Allergy Research and Education, an advocacy organization. Based on those results, and anticipating more data, the FDA immediately approved Xolair as a protection against peanut allergy. The results revealed that the occurrence of peanut allergy in Israeli kids was one-tenth the rate among U.K. ones. The babies were tested for preexisting peanut allergy, and if they were negative, they went into one of two groups. But “an allergist isn’t going to see somebody who doesn’t have peanut allergy already,” NIH’s Fulkerson says.

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How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Numerous celebrities and vitamin companies raised hopes that vitamin D could be a panacea, says JoAnn Manson, an endocrinologist and epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and a lead investigator on some of the biggest vitamin D studies to date. These observational studies looked for associations between vitamin D levels and a particular health issue or compared vitamin D status among people with a condition and those without. Holick made a name for himself espousing the health-promoting powers of vitamin D and wrote a book called The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems. Given the VITAL trial’s large size and wide scope, many vitamin D researchers hoped it would put many of the purported benefits of vitamin D supplements to rest. Manson is quick to caution that more isn’t necessarily better when it comes to vitamin D. “Vitamin D is essential to good health, but we require only small to moderate amounts,” she says.

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Personalized mRNA vaccines will revolutionize cancer treatment—if federal funding cuts don’t doom them
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Personalized melanoma vaccines could be available as early as 2028, with mRNA vaccines for other cancers to follow. Another threat to personalized mRNA vaccines for cancer was coming into focus: mounting federal hostility to vaccines. After obtaining positive results for the mRNA vaccine for melanoma, Sahin agreed to partner with Balachandran to develop an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer. Lennard Lee, an adviser to the U.K.’s National Health Service overseeing the rollout of clinical trials for cancer vaccines, says the pandemic gave regulators there a running start on trials for mRNA cancer vaccines. By May 2025 another threat to personalized mRNA vaccines for cancer was coming into focus: mounting federal hostility to vaccines.

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SPONSORED | 10 May 2026
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These new cancer drugs improve outcomes for people with hard-to-treat tumors
NEWS | 10 May 2026
This drug for breast cancer was the first to use a tumor-specific protein as a homing beacon to find and kill cancer cells. It was really so satisfying.” —Shanu Modi, MSK Cancer CenterEnhertu belongs to an ingenious and growing class of targeted cancer drugs called antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs. If highly toxic forms of chemotherapy could be strapped onto antibodies, the toxins would reach only the cancer cells and no others. A negative result typically means 10 percent or fewer of the tumor’s cells have HER2 on their surfaces. Another explanation for these nasty effects is that there are no protein targets that are exclusive to cancer cells.