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People who are the exact same chronological age can undergo very different molecular changes as they grow older, a new study finds. “Molecular aging is dynamic and unique to each person,” said study co-author Julia El-Sayed Moustafa, a computational genomics researcher at King’s College London. Even if you and your friend were born the same […]

Mathematicians are witnessing a profound shift in their field. AI systems are now producing proofs, spotting connections between distant fields, and, in a few cases, solving problems that had stumped mathematicians for decades. The pace of progress over the past several months has raised challenging questions: What can AI systems actually do? And what happens

But the relief when I admitted to somebody that I didn’t know something was palpable. It was amazing. I came clean, and then we had a great conversation, and I actually learned something. It made me make connections, both with humans, but also in my internal wiring. It helped me learn. What’s the flip side

China’s solar power capacity has overtaken coal for the first time, marking a major milestone in the country’s rapid expansion of renewable energy. China had about 1,288 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar capacity at the end of July, compared with 1,285 GW of coal-fired capacity, according to figures from the country’s energy administration reported by

“We like to think of it as a baseball hitter that strikes out a lot, but when they do hit, it’s a home run,” said Douglas Soltis, a plant evolutionary geneticist at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “Polyploidy is the most important process on the planet that hardly anybody knows anything about.” Advances in

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a human skeleton inside a giant Roman jar. It’s likely that the individual sought shelter in the vessel during an enemy attack over 1,600 years ago but died as a fire swept through the area. The team unearthed the gigantic jar in a Late Roman turret, or small tower, in

The patient: A 47-year-old woman in Canada The symptoms: The woman underwent a lung transplant to treat interstitial lung disease, which involves harmful inflammation and scarring of lung tissue. While recovering in the hospital, she ate a bowl of breakfast cereal, which activated a nearly two-hour episode of flushing, itching, shortness of breath and low

While building a terrace in their backyard, a homeowner in Denmark discovered the treasure of a lifetime: more than 40 pounds (18.5 kilograms) of thousand-year-old silver buried in the ground. An analysis revealed that the finding is the country’s largest Viking Age (793 to 1066) silver hoard known to researchers. The hoard has approximately 700

The iron shield boss was covered with caked earth when it was found. (Image credit: Bartłomiej Bartecki, Hrubieszów Museum) A man searching for spare auto parts at a junkyard in Poland discovered an entirely different kind of treasure: part of a 1,800-year-old shield that was filled with bones. The shield’s age and location suggest that