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How Technology and Friendship Preserved a 20-Year E-mail Time Capsule
NEWS | 17 November 2025
And we came up with the idea of building an e-mail time capsule. I was a technology reporter at Forbes.com, and we got assigned the idea to make a digital time capsule. We came up with this idea for an e-mail time capsule. And when the time period comes up you’ll magically get an e-mail back from yourself in the future.”Pierre-Louis: And we’re at the 20-year mark, right? Like, they lost literally everybody who had ever heard of the e-mail time capsule project.

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Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to Mimic the Universe Just after the Big Bang
NEWS | 17 November 2025
The collision took place at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) run by Brookhaven National Labratory in Brookhaven, NY. The soup of particles born from the collision mimics the universe as it was just after the big bang. After the gold nuclei crashed, the protons and neutrons within them melted into a seething cloud of quark-gluon plasma. The experiment took place at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), within the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) detector. There, gold nuclei racing along a 2.4-mile loop reach mind-boggling speeds before they bang together and disintegrate into quark-gluon plasma.

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Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramatically by Nation
NEWS | 17 November 2025
This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Carin Leong: Type 1 diabetes is rising around the world—and no one knows why. It’s partly because we’ve gotten better at detecting type 1 diabetes early on. Treatment of type 1 diabetes has come a long way, but the advancements aren’t shared equally. Type 1 diabetes isn’t a death sentence, but where you live can make it one.

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Complex Life May Have Evolved Multiple Times
NEWS | 17 November 2025
And not only did complex multicellular life appear earlier than previously thought, but it might have done so multiple times, sprouting seedlings that were wiped away by a volatile Earth eons before our lineage took root. And where do the burdens of proof lie for establishing that complex life arose far earlier than previously thought—and more than just once? Jen ChristiansenBut it wasn’t long before scientists began finding older hints of multicellular organisms, suggesting that complex life proliferated before the Cambrian. “It seems to me that [the Francevillian material] is showing that complex life might have evolved twice in history,” Chi Fru says. If ancient complex life can emerge so quickly when conditions are right, who knows where else signs of another blossoming might turn up next?

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SPONSORED | 17 November 2025
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Three Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Can Really Fight Disease, according to the Strongest Science
NEWS | 17 November 2025
Multiple studies suggest that omega-3 supplements can reduce markers of chronic inflammation, Hu says, especially among people with underlying health conditions. The omega-3 supplements also were associated with a 40 percent reduction in heart attacks among those consuming the least fish. VITAMIN DEgg yolks contain some vitamin D. Masanyanka/Getty ImagesRigorous trials have debunked the once popular idea that vitamin D is a wonder drug for everything from breast cancer to diabetes. Most people in the VITAL study started with normal levels of vitamin D, Manson says. (The recommended daily vitamin D intake for adults is 600 IU.)

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Inside the Mysterious Smuggling of the El Ali Meteorite
NEWS | 17 November 2025
Known locally as Shiid-birood (“the iron rock”), the El Ali meteorite is 13.6 metric tons of iron and nickel. For centuries the El Ali meteorite, a brownish, pitted boulder some two meters wide and one meter tall, went unnoticed by anyone but locals. “We were, in retrospect, getting quite biased information” about both the removal of the El Ali meteorite and its export to China. Later in 2021 Gessler presented the El Ali meteorite to the Meteoritical Society, recognizing it as the third-largest meteorite discovered in Africa. These minerals lace the El Ali meteorite, residing inside tiny inclusions roughly the width of a human hair.

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Advances in Type 1 Diabetes Science and Tech
NEWS | 17 November 2025
Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. As the science races forward, the number of type 1 diabetes cases is surging. Science journalist Rachel Nuwer describes advances in genetic screening to identify kids at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

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Can Genetic Testing Predict Type 1 Diabetes? Experts Say Earlier Treatment Is Possible
NEWS | 17 November 2025
But the experience exemplified the growing interest in genetic risk tests for the disease, he says. This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations. “One of the biggest needs in the field is to understand what confers genetic risk in a much more diverse genetic ancestry,” Brusko says. Genetic risk tests for type 1 diabetes are inching closer to use in clinical care. In the U.S., genetic screening for type 1 diabetes is still done primarily in research environments.

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The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’
NEWS | 17 November 2025
Experiences in Insight Problem Solving,” by Jennifer Wiley and Amory H. Danek, in Nature Reviews Psychology, Vol. moments and compare the brain activity during them with the brain activity for analytical solutions. That part of the brain, the right anterior superior temporal gyrus, connects with many other brain regions. Our findings linking this specific area of the brain to the aha! Fortunately, insightful thinking is largely unconscious and does not tax attention or working memory the way analytical thinking does.

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The Quest to Build a Truly Intelligent Machine Helps Us Learn about Our Own Intelligence
NEWS | 17 November 2025
Researchers seek not simply artificial intelligence but artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a system with humanlike adaptability and creativity. Further, and invisibly to users, the core language system may itself be modular in some sense. “How does information go from the language system to logical reasoning systems or to social reasoning systems?” wonders neuroscientist Anna Ivanova of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Whether or not Franklin’s machine was truly conscious—Baars and Franklin themselves were dubious—it at least reproduced various quirks of human psychology. In this scheme, brain modules operate mostly independently, but every tenth of a second or so they have one of their staff meetings.

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Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences
NEWS | 17 November 2025
For decades François d’Adesky, a retired diplomat and civil servant who now lives in Brussels, spoke to no one about his near-death experience (NDE). An astounding 5 to 10 percent of the general population is estimated to have memories of an NDE, including somewhere between 10 and 23 percent of cardiac arrest survivors. “Now, clearly, we don’t question anymore the reality of near-death experiences,” says Charlotte Martial, a neuroscientist at the University of Liège in Belgium. But their findings are already challenging long-held beliefs about the dying brain, including that consciousness ceases almost immediately after the heart stops beating. Participants reported stronger sensory effects during their NDE, including the sensation of being disembodied, but stronger visual imagery during their drug trip.

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How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World
NEWS | 17 November 2025
They nudged me to develop a perspective that provides an alternative description of how the brain interacts with the outside world. Fluctuations in neuronal activity are meaningful only for the scientist who is in the privileged position of observing both events in the brain and events in the outside world and then comparing the two perspectives. A brain that remakes itself constantly would be unable to adapt quickly to fast-changing events in the outside world. When you close your eyes, you still know where you are because a great deal of what defines “seeing” is rooted in brain activity. In this sense, our thoughts and plans are deferred actions, and disengaged brain activity is an active, essential brain operation.

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SPONSORED | 17 November 2025
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Could Inducing Lucid Dreams Treat Insomnia and Nightmares?
NEWS | 17 November 2025
Imaging studies revealed more wakelike activity in the brain during lucid dreams than nonlucid dreams. To have stable lucid dreams, you need to remain calm and attentive, or you will probably wake up from excitement. Lucid dreamers who can conjure up characters rate these dreams as more positive and mystical than other dreams. Headbands and watches could help them call for help to escape nightmares—or just help to induce lucid dreams or direct the content for more satisfying dreams. Such measures could lead to algorithms that detect opportune moments to deliver sensory cues and induce lucid dreams.