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A team using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope processed 600 million spectra to build the first large-scale intensity map of Lyman-alpha emissions from 9 to 11 billion years ago, exposing faint galaxies and intergalactic gas invisible to conventional surveys.

A Spanish research team synthesized the hormone therapy drug dimestrol directly from methane using an iron-based photocatalyst, opening a path to converting natural gas into high-value medicines.

ETH Zurich and University of Basel researchers permanently reversed a ferromagnet's polarity using only laser light in twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, published in Nature.

South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope has discovered a record-breaking hydroxyl gigamaser in a merging galaxy system, shattering the previous distance record by a factor of two.

Six months of observations of the third interstellar object ever detected have uncovered water, methane, and hydrogen cyanide in its coma--and a Jupiter flyby on March 16 could yield the closest-ever look at an interstellar visitor.

A 15-hour JWST observation has produced the first three-dimensional map of Uranus's ionosphere, confirming decades-long atmospheric cooling and exposing how the planet's tilted, offset magnetic field sculpts complex auroral structures unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system.

A team led by the University of Chicago has named Spinosaurus mirabilis, a scimitar-crested, fish-eating theropod found 500–1,000 km from the nearest ancient sea, reshaping what scientists know about where spinosaurs lived.

A second-generation Pro-Active Genetics system spreads via bacterial conjugation to disable resistance genes on plasmids, working even inside biofilms.

A QuTech team achieves first single-shot parity readout of Majorana qubits using quantum capacitance, demonstrating millisecond coherence and solving a key bottleneck for topological quantum computers.

A new class of high-entropy boride magnets made from earth-abundant metals achieves magnetic properties approaching rare-earth levels, offering a potential path to breaking dependence on Chinese-controlled supply chains for EVs, wind turbines, and electronics.

Clearest gravitational wave ever detected from black hole merger validates Einstein's theory with unprecedented precision