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๐Ÿ”ฌ A 100-Million-Year-Old Black Hole Just Woke Up โ€” And That's Only the Start
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๐Ÿ”ฌ A 100-Million-Year-Old Black Hole Just Woke Up โ€” And That's Only the Start

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February 21, 20268m 49s

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Show Notes

Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a dormant black hole roaring back to life, shooting jets of energy nearly a million light-years across space. Closer to home, a common bacterium linked to pneumonia is now being investigated for its potential role in Alzheimer's disease, with researchers finding higher levels of it in patients carrying a known high-risk gene. A five-thousand-year-old bacterium thawed from a cave has shown resistance to modern antibiotics, proving antibiotic resistance is an ancient survival strategy buried in Earth's ice. Scientists at Mount Sinai have developed a cunning new cancer immunotherapy that doesn't attack tumors directly โ€” instead, it flips the tumor's own protective cells against it. From psychedelics rewiring how the brain constructs reality to Charles Darwin's sealed specimen jars finally giving up their secrets without being opened, this episode is packed with discoveries that challenge what we thought we knew.

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