
Episode 293
๐ฌ Two Planets Just Collided 11,000 Light-Years Away โ And That's Not Even the Biggest Story This Week
๐๏ธ Science News Daily | Peer Review'd ยท Peer Review'd
March 12, 202610m 16s
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Show Notes
Scientists have upended decades of thinking about depression, tracing its roots to a surprising cellular energy problem in the brain that could change how we diagnose and treat it. A landmark Alzheimer's breakthrough uses cancer-fighting technology to engineer brain cells into plaque-clearing machines โ potentially replacing ongoing treatments with a single genetic fix. Astronomers may have captured a rare planetary collision in real time, while new evidence suggests our own Sun was once a cosmic refugee that fled the violent center of the Milky Way. Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton is rewriting the history of syphilis, and researchers are now seriously debating whether bees โ and ChatGPT โ might be conscious.
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