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NASA Abandons Plan to Save Falling Swift Observatory
NASA has scrapped its plan to rescue the Swift observatory, leaving the satellite to fall out of orbit and re-enter Earth's atmosphere later this year.
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Another Chinese Launch Company Recovers a Reusable Booster
A second Chinese launch company recovered an orbital-class rocket booster, a little more than a month after the country's first such landing.
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LandSpace Lands Reusable Rocket Booster, a First for China
The startup's Zhuque-3 landing puts LandSpace in the small club with SpaceX and Blue Origin, narrowing China's reusable-rocket gap with the US.
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Tiny satellite to use Moon's far side to hear the early universe
A University of Cambridge team plans a small satellite that hides behind the Moon to catch radio whispers from the early universe.
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Phoenix Data Centers Push Nearby Temperatures Up 4 Degrees
A new study of Phoenix data centers finds their waste heat raises nearby air temperatures by as much as 4 degrees, adding a local climate cost to the AI boom.
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China Aims to Beat NASA Back to the Moon by 2030
China is racing toward a before-2030 crewed Moon landing, threatening to beat NASA's Artemis III, now targeted no earlier than 2027.
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AI Model Predicts Which Polymer Tweaks Survive Heat
A topology-based deep learning model predicted how two chemical swaps raise polymers' heat resistance, and lab tests then confirmed it.
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AI Cuts Search Time for Growing Catalytic 2D Dendrites
Researchers used active learning to find an optimal recipe for branched ReSe2 dendrites in a fraction of the possible experiments, then modeled why it works.
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AI Model Reconstructs Video From Brain Scans
A new fMRI decoding framework called SemVideo uses layered semantic guidance to turn brain activity into more coherent reconstructed video than prior methods.
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AI Weather Model Beats Nordic Forecasts at 2.5km Resolution
A stretched-grid probabilistic model outperforms an operational forecasting system on temperature and pressure but still struggles with peak storm winds.
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New Encoding Method Boosts Phage Protein Classification
A new image-based encoding hits 90.8% accuracy identifying phage virion proteins, but multi-class results still lag.
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New Algorithm Speeds Up Grover Search for Multiple Answers
A new bidirectional Grover search variant needs fewer iterations to find multiple hidden items in an unsorted database, researchers report.
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ShadowNet Blends Classical Shadows With Neural Nets for Qubits
A neural network method reuses quantum shadow data across tasks, cutting the measurement overhead in studying large quantum systems.
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Researchers Link Random Walks to Neural Networks for PDEs
A new proof shows a classic random-walk algorithm can construct efficient neural networks that solve a fundamental equation in physics and engineering.
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Researchers Borrow LLM Tricks to Shrink Audio Files by 74%
A new codec called AudioTQ applies AI weight-compression math to raw audio, shrinking file sizes by up to 74 percent while running on a single CPU core.
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AI Reconstruction Reveals Ocean Fronts Drive Energy Cascade
A generative AI model filled gaps in satellite data to show that narrow ocean fronts, not open water, do most of the work shuttling energy between scales.
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New Model Links Tissue Images to Gene Activity More Precisely
A new framework filters out noisy genes and models spatial context, outperforming prior methods for aligning tissue images with gene activity.
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AI Tool Predicts Post-Acetazolamide Brain Scans in Moyamoya
A new AI model reconstructs the post-drug brain blood flow scan doctors use to decide on bypass surgery for Moyamoya patients, using only the baseline scan.
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New AI Model Predicts Bilayer Material Properties Faster
A new graph neural network separates layer-specific interactions to predict bilayer material properties faster than DFT-based methods.
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A Responsible AI Framework for Predicting Groundwater Levels
A new study applies six responsible AI principles to groundwater forecasting models in China's Heihe River Basin, where Transformer outperformed LSTM.
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AI Chatbot Lets Grid Operators Query Battery Storage Data
A new framework turns plain-English questions into SQL queries against battery storage telemetry, flagging voltage violations and power issues automatically.
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Model Predicts How Platforms Route Around New Rules
A new research framework scores platform governance changes by how well they anticipate creators, sellers, and moderators gaming the new rules.
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Study Maps Where Air Taxi Hubs Should Go
A new simulation shows Los Angeles air taxi networks could need up to sixteen vertiports but only twelve aircraft to meet peak demand.
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Distributed Scheduling Speeds Up Emergency Satellite Imaging
A distributed scheduling method lets satellite constellations slot in emergency imaging without central control, nearly matching centralized performance.
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Study Predicts Teen Drug and Alcohol Use Before It Starts
Researchers combined years of teen survey data with family and peer networks to flag substance use risk earlier and more accurately than standard models.
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Humanoid Robots Remove Organs in Live Animal Surgery
UC San Diego surgeons used teleoperated humanoid robots to extract gallbladders from live pigs, a claimed first for the field.
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Surgeons Used Humanoid Robots to Remove Pig Gallbladders
A Nature-published preclinical trial shows human-controlled humanoid robots completing minimally invasive surgery on live pigs for the first time.
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UC San Diego Humanoid Robots Pull Off Gallbladder Surgery
A preclinical trial at UC San Diego used teleoperated humanoid robots to complete two gallbladder removals on non-primate mammals — a first.
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Quantum Learners Beat Classical Ones at Predicting Particle Dynamics
A new proof shows quantum machine learning algorithms can solve a physics prediction task that no classical algorithm can match in polynomial time.
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AI Drones Map Salt Marsh Plants With 99% Accuracy
A new UAV pipeline called EcoVision uses transformer models to classify salt marsh grasses at 2x2m resolution, matching traditional field surveys within 8%.
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Neural Networks Learn to Simulate Shockwave Physics
Researchers used physics-informed neural networks to model wave behavior across steel-aluminum boundaries, cutting reliance on costly finite-element runs.
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Chaos Makes AI Better at Finding Physics Equations
A new paper argues that chaotic systems are actually easier for AI to reverse-engineer from data — and stable, predictable ones may be nearly impossible.
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A GNN That Predicts What Sticks to Drug-Delivery Nanoparticles
GenShin uses a graph neural network to rank proteins that coat lipid nanoparticles, potentially replacing costly mass spectrometry screening.
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LiDAR Biomass Estimates Get More Accurate With Continuous Tree Maps
A new training method for forest biomass models cuts estimation error by swapping out coarse plot averages for spatially continuous reference data.
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New Benchmark Exposes Hidden Failures in Quantum Circuit Design
HamQASBench groups molecules by quantum structure rather than identity, catching failure modes that standard energy-accuracy metrics consistently miss.
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A Plankton Classifier That Knows When to Doubt Itself
Researchers built a verification framework for underwater AI that flags uncertain classifications before marine biologists waste time on bad data.
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Smarter Fusion Reactor Safety, Cheaper at Runtime
A new AI framework trains on camera images and sensor data but drops the cameras at inference, cutting costs without losing accuracy.
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A Formal Verification Tool for Python Stats Code
Why3-py translates Python statistical programs into a format that can be mathematically checked for hidden assumptions and misuse.
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A New AI Model Maps Amazon Carbon Stocks Through the Clouds
A new transformer model fuses radar and satellite imagery to map Amazon carbon stocks, clearing the ESA's sub-20% error benchmark.
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A 35-Year Math Problem Falls, With an AI's Help
Researchers used ChatGPT to help crack a stochastic-process uniqueness problem open for more than 35 years, then verified every step themselves.
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Quantum Circuit Design Beats Penalty Tricks for CRISPR Guide Selection
Researchers tested two quantum optimization strategies on a gene-editing problem, and the structural approach beat penalty tuning by a wide margin.
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Open-Source Tool Turns Heart Scans into Simulation Meshes
A new automated pipeline converts CT segmentations into physics-ready cardiac models, enabling large virtual patient cohorts for in silico trials.
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Singapore's Cyborg Cockroaches Can Now Breathe Underwater
A Nanyang Technological University team fitted remote-controlled cockroaches with 3D-printed oxygen suits for disaster rescue in flooded terrain.
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AI Cuts the Cost of Hunting Neutron Star Mergers
A neural network called Aframe matched the sensitivity of classical gravitational-wave search pipelines while running on a single consumer-grade GPU.
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Satellite AI Embeddings Beat Expert Attributes for River Forecasting
A new study finds that AI-learned satellite image embeddings outperform hand-crafted basin attributes when predicting river flow in ungauged regions.
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A Smartphone Camera as a Chronic Pain Lab
Researchers validated a computer vision pipeline that extracts 3D movement data from a single phone video, rivaling expensive lab equipment.
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Neural Net Decoder Pushes Quantum Error Correction Near Its Limits
A hybrid graph neural network and Transformer decoder brings quantum error correction thresholds within striking distance of theoretical maximums.
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Physics-Baked Neural Net Predicts Hydrogen Leaks at 200 Bar
A hybrid model embedding thermodynamic laws directly into its architecture outperforms pure deep learning for high-pressure green-hydrogen safety.
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A New AI Model Learns to Read the Night Sky
Researchers built a light-curve model that handles astronomy's messy, irregular data better than hand-crafted features on 15 of 16 benchmarks.
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Rocket Lab Buys Iridium for $8 Billion
The launch startup acquires Iridium's 80-satellite network in a cash-and-stock deal Beck calls one of the most transformative in the space industry.
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ETH Zurich Builds a Pixel That Both Emits and Captures Light
Swiss researchers have built a pixel that can emit and capture light, potentially letting screens double as cameras without separate hardware.
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NASA Report Backs Cuts to Lunar Programs Years Behind Schedule
An internal analysis supports NASA's cancellation of two Artemis-era programs, finding they were massively over budget and still nowhere near done.
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SpaceX Tests Starfall, a Saucer-Shaped Orbital Cargo Pod
SpaceX is launching a secretive reentry vehicle called Starfall this week to demonstrate point-to-point cargo delivery from low-Earth orbit.
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AI diffusion model sharpens blurry global climate forecasts
A new diffusion model turns coarse global climate output into 0.25-degree regional fields, with built-in uncertainty and far less compute.
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Amazon and QuEra Claim Quantum Error Correction by 2028
Amazon and QuEra say useful error-corrected quantum computers could arrive by 2028, years ahead of where most of the field puts the milestone.
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Staged Neural Network Training Cuts Physics Simulation Errors 60-fold
A two-stage training method reduces error in neural-net equation solvers by up to 60 times over standard single-pass approaches.
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Chinese Rocket Stage Breaks Apart Near Starlink and the ISS
A Zhuque-2E upper stage shattered in low-Earth orbit after last week's launch, scattering debris through one of the most congested stretches of space.
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Federated Learning Gets Causal Without Sharing Raw Data
A new method estimates causal treatment effects across siloed datasets by sharing only aggregate statistics, not individual records.
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AI Climate Emulators Show Promise, Fall Short on Extremes
A new diffusion model framework replicates regional precipitation patterns well but still misses the most severe weather events.
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Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Found in US Breast Milk Samples
A new study detected dangerous endocrine disruptors in US breast milk, intensifying pressure on regulators who have long moved slowly on these compounds.
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ArXiv hosts new paper titled Maxproof
A newly posted preprint called Maxproof appears on arXiv, drawing modest attention on Hacker News.
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JWST Pins 'Little Red Dots' on Gas-Shrouded Black Holes
New spectral analysis of GLIMPSE-17775 suggests these early-universe objects are quasars buried in dense gas, and probably smaller than prior estimates.
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UT Austin Jacket Pulls 900 ml of Drinking Water from Air Daily
Researchers wove a biomass-derived hydrogel fiber into a wearable that passively harvests up to 900 ml of drinking water from ambient air each day.
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NASA's Deep Space Network Held Up for Artemis II, Mostly by Timing
The network that choked on Artemis I survived the crewed mission without throttling science data — helped more by a shorter flight than any capacity fix.
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Solar Tops Coal in US Power Generation for the First Time
A milestone a decade in the making: US solar farms collectively outproduced coal plants for the first time on record.
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NSF Shuts Down Ocean Network Alaska's Fisheries Depend On
The Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $368M sensor network used by fishers, coastal planners, and the military, is slated for decommissioning.
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UNSW Researchers Brew Espresso With Sound, Not Heat
An ultrasonic method from UNSW Sydney extracts espresso at room temperature, cuts energy use by 75%, and fooled 100 blind tasters.
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FDA Clears First New Sunscreen Ingredient in 26 Years
The US just approved bemotrizinol, the first new sunscreen ingredient in 26 years - a UV filter that Europe and Asia have used safely since 2000.
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Artemis III Has a Crew and a Two-Lander Docking Plan
NASA named its lunar landing crew and confirmed astronauts will dock with both a Blue Origin and SpaceX lander in low-Earth orbit before any Moon descent.
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China's 24 MW Seabed Data Center Uses the Ocean to Stay Cool
A new facility on the seabed combines offshore wind power with seawater cooling, skipping both the grid and the chillers.
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Cambridge's AI-Designed Vaccine Passes Its First Human Trial
Cambridge researchers used AI to find conserved viral features, then built a needle-free DNA vaccine that just cleared its first human safety trial.
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Cornell's Chemical Bath Gives Dead EV Batteries a Second Life
A Cornell University process restores spent lithium-ion battery cells to 95% of original capacity and cuts recycling costs by 56%, challenging the industry's shred-and-smelt default.
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Five Papers Make the Physics Case for Commonwealth Fusion's Reactor
Commonwealth Fusion submitted five peer-reviewed papers modeling SPARC at 400 MW - more rigorous than the press-release promises that usually fill this field.
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MIT Ultrasound Wristband Maps 22 Hand Movements to Drive a Robot
A ring of wrist-worn ultrasound transducers can track every finger movement with enough fidelity to control a robot hand in real time.
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Donut Lab's Solid-State Battery Was Just Lithium-Ion
A YouTube investigation backed by a whistleblower and over 20 battery experts says Donut Lab's production-ready solid-state cell is just lithium-ion.
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China Issues the First Commercial Approval for a Brain Implant
China's drug regulator approved NeuraMatrix's NEO implant for spinal cord patients, putting it ahead of Neuralink on the commercialization timeline.
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Russia's Rassvet Constellation Drops Its First Satellite
One of Rassvet's 16 satellites re-entered Earth's atmosphere within weeks, a rough start for Russia's answer to Starlink.
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A Peruvian Field Station Puts Ecotourism's Claims to the Test
A citizen science station in the Peruvian Amazon is building a model where tourists collect real data — and the research funds conservation directly.
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Waymo's Retired Taxi Batteries Head to the Power Grid
Used batteries from Waymo's robotaxi fleet will serve as stationary grid backup storage in California and Texas energy projects.
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Microsoft's Majorana 2 Chip Cuts Quantum Deadline to 2029
A 1,000-fold qubit reliability leap, driven partly by agentic AI, pushes Microsoft's scalable quantum computer target forward by four years.
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SpaceX Wins $4.16B Pentagon Deal for Golden Dome Satellites
A new Space Force contract makes SpaceX the primary builder of Trump's missile-tracking satellite layer, just as the company eyes a record IPO.
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Investors shift toward clean energy amid geopolitical tensions, security concerns
Money is flowing into renewables as nations seek energy independence during ongoing Middle East instability.
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Neanderthals Operated Bone-Marrow 'Fat Factories' 125,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists using chemical analysis found Neanderthals deliberately processed animal bones for fat, challenging assumptions about their cognitive abilities.
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Six under-the-radar science stories worth knowing
From why dolphins swim so fast to how mushrooms use urine to talk to each other, a batch of research that deserves more attention.
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Rare Amoeba Infection Killed Man After Months of Symptoms
Doctors finally diagnosed a man's mysterious worsening condition as a parasitic infection, but treatment came too late.
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Alzheimer's Scientists Say Money and Policy Matter as Much as Lab Work
A leading researcher argues that funding gaps and fragmented efforts—not just biology—are slowing progress on dementia treatments.
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Some scorpions evolved metal-reinforced stingers and scientists want to know why
Researchers found zinc and manganese in scorpion stingers, but the evolutionary driver remains unclear.
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Virgin Galactic's new ship arrives as money runs short
The suborbital tourism business was supposed to take off years ago. Now one of its pioneers is burning the last of its cash.
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Amazon's broadband constellation grows to 61 satellites in a week
The company that once promised to launch 3,200 satellites but has been slow to launch just reached another milestone in its race to compete with Starlink.
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One Injection Helped Joints Repair Themselves in Weeks
Researchers developed a treatment that may reverse osteoarthritis damage with a single injection, though it's years from availability.
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Russia hides launch schedule after Ukraine hits cosmodrome
Ukraine's strike on Russia's primary spaceport forces a secrecy shift in orbital operations.