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In the 20th century, smallpox killed 300 million people.
Then the world launched a ten-year campaign to end it entirely.
May 8, 1980: gone. The only human disease ever eradicated.
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[History: Medical Breakthrough] The Last Case: How Humanity Hunted a Killer to Extinction
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May 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Researchers at the University of Birmingham just developed a catalyst that produces clean hydrogen 500°C lower than existing technology — letting steel plants and factories use their own waste heat as fuel.

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The Waste Heat No One Was Using: Birmingham's Hydrogen Breakthrough Could Change Everything
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new catalyst that produces clean hydrogen at temperatures 500 degrees lower than any existing technology — potentially allowing steel plant...
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June 2, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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Scientists just built the first growth chart for the human brain.⚛️ The first complete atlas of how brain communication networks develop across a human lifetime

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The First Growth Chart for Your Brain: Scientists Map How It Wires Itself From Birth to 100
In March 2026, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published the first atlas of how the human brain organizes its communication networks from the first weeks of life through...
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March 31, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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Every battery ever built charges more slowly as it gets bigger.
Australian scientists just built one that does the opposite.

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The Battery That Breaks Its Own Rules: Australia Just Built Something That Should Not Exist
On March 18, 2026, scientists at CSIRO, RMIT University, and the University of Melbourne announced the world's first proof-of-concept quantum battery — a device that charges, stores, and discharges en...
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March 20, 2026 at 9:36 AM