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Discovered viruses that make DNA from an RNA template. David Baltimore | Photo: NIH, via Wikimedia Commons

The researcher who ran viruses backwards: David Baltimore (1938–2025)

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Nobel Prize winner who identified reverse transcriptase, formulated the “Baltimore Classification” and laid the foundations for modern virology, PCR and antiviral drugs
An artistic illustration of the brain's "speed limit" – we think, process, and decide at a slow rate of 10 bits per second. Credit: J. Zheng

The surprising limit to human thinking speed – only 10 bits per second

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The paradox is that sensory input processing is done at a speed 100 million times faster than the speed of thought * Principal Investigator: "At any given moment, we extract only 10 bits out of a trillion that our senses perceive and use."
From the design of the spacecraft to launch and operation - the journey is long. Key components of NASA's SPHEREx instrument, designed to investigate important questions about the universe, now in its more realized state. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's SPHEREx Satellite: Exploring the Universe in 102 Infrared Colors 

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"This is the first mission to view the entire sky in so many colors," said Jamie Bock, principal investigator of SPHEREx, which operates jointly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech.
Artist's illustration of the V404 Cygni double X-ray system. Credit: Jorge Lugo

The discovery of the first triple black hole system provides clues to the formation of black holes

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A surprising discovery challenges existing models of black hole creation and reveals the age of the stellar system
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