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How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 PercentHere’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix
IEEE Spectrum's Mini Shaji Thomas recounts how Delhi slashed electricity losses from about 50% to 5%—the privatization, metering, and grid-operations reforms that turned candlelit kitchens into reliable power.
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Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
IEEE Spectrum covers a smart contact lens that aims to measure serotonin as a stress biomarker, part of a broader push toward continuous body-chemistry sensing.
4 min · 960 words
Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
Elise Cutts for Quanta Magazine explores how biological systems may not rely on quantum physics, yet often obey quantumlike mathematics—interference, contextuality, and what that means for modeling life.
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How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days
How Zambia’s medicines regulator authorized an HIV drug in 12 days—and what that says about the access gap when medicines sit where the disease is not.
16 min · 3,572 words
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy as you age
Linguist Karen Stollznow surveys evidence that bilingualism and later-life language learning support cognitive reserve, even though adult acquisition looks different from childhood learning.
4 min · 976 words
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
Jason Bittel reports on a small spotted tiger cat from Bolivia—identified through sanctuary work and genetics—that may signal a broader wave of newly recognized small-cat species.
7 min · 1,553 words
Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.Comb jellies illuminate early nervous systems and bioluminescence
Marlowe Starling reports how comb jellies (ctenophores) help biologists probe the earliest animal nervous systems, membrane chemistry, and bioluminescence—organisms as distant from us as we are from jellyfish.
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Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope's Little Red Dots
Charlie Wood explains the debate over James Webb's mysterious little red dots: whether they are standard supermassive black holes or black hole stars—colossal hydrogen shells powered by hidden black holes—and what that would mean for how the first big black holes formed.
12 min · 2,798 words