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Articles
The cat was never missing. Science’s name for it was.
A tiny Bolivian wild cat shows how one familiar-looking animal can conceal an ancient lineage—and why correcting the family tree matters.
The antimatter was the lightest part of the shipment
Ninety-two antiprotons crossed CERN inside an 850-kilogram machine—and a tiny electrical signal showed that every one survived.
A carnivorous plant turns microbial wandering into one-way traffic
Genlisea’s underground traps appear to rectify the restless motion of microbes, moving prey and debris uphill without an obvious pump.
Polonius lets Rust skip an allocation the borrow checker used to demand
A nightly-only borrow-checker upgrade accepts the natural borrowed-key lookup-or-insert pattern, avoiding owned-key construction on cache hits.