If Neptune gets knocked out of its orbit by just 0.1%, it could cause turmoil in the cosmos. Astronomers used a telescope in Hawaii to find a new object on the outer edges of our solar system, helping to fuel evidence of a long-standing theory about Planet Nine, or Planet X. For years, scientists have theorized about a ninth planet …
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Wild tomatoes rooted on the raw lava of Fernandina and Isabela Islands have done something biologists once filed under “nearly impossible,” reviving a molecular defense that disappeared from their relatives millions of years ago during species evolution. The phenomenon has been traced to a tiny tweak in the plants’ chemistry, and it now stands as the clearest plant example of …
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Two of the strangest structures in the galaxy just got even stranger. Ballooning above and below the Milky Way‘s center like a massive hourglass, the mysterious Fermi bubbles loom large over our galaxy. These enormous twin orbs of superheated plasma have been gushing out of the galactic center for millions of years. Today, they span some 50,000 light-years from tip …
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How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’m in a loving relationship with a woman I absolutely adore. We have sex two to three times a week, and it’s wonderful. But I’ve been using AI tools for masturbation nearly every day. It’s just so …
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Tracy Robert believed her bloating and abdominal pain were symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a diagnosis doctors had given her 20 years ago. During her first pregnancy, she was also told she had an internal hemorrhoid after experiencing rectal bleeding, which doctors attributed to her IBS and hemorrhoid history. ER staff and her primary care doctor advised her to …
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After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail, scientists are still making discoveries. Here we are, in 2025, and a previously unknown cellular structure that could be vital to our health has just been added to the anatomy books. The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It’s …
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Summary: New research has identified the gene Egr-1 as a critical regulator of immune balance, offering hope for autoimmune disease therapies. In a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, loss of Egr-1 led to reduced regulatory T cell activity and heightened inflammation. The study showed Egr-1 directly boosts the expression of Foxp3, a protein essential for Treg cells, via the TGF-β …
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