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🔬 Smiling Spiders, Time Reversal & a Powder That Stops Bleeding in One Second

8 min · 3 de jul de 2026
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Scientists have spotted the famously cheerful Happy Face spider thousands of miles from where it was thought to exist — raising deep questions about evolution and animal distribution. A 20-year study reveals wild orangutans in Borneo deliberately self-medicating with plants, suggesting great apes have a far more sophisticated 'natural pharmacy' than we ever imagined. Physicists have achieved a quantum time reversal, bending the arrow of time and harvesting energy from measurements in a development with major implications for quantum computing. Engineers have unveiled a spray-on powder that seals life-threatening wounds in just one second, even in the most difficult-to-treat injuries. Meanwhile, a strange new signal at LIGO has reignited hopes that primordial black holes — potential candidates for dark matter — may finally be within reach of detection. Subscribe to Peer Review'd Newsletter: https://peerreviewd.com/ [https://peerreviewd.com/] Love Science? Check out our other Science tools: 60sec.site [https://60sec.site/] and Artificial Intelligence Radio [https://artificialintelligenceradio.com]

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