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🔬 Ancient Black Holes Predate The Universe, Hidden Fungal Highways Mapped & Your Brain Is Lying To You About What It Sees

8 min · 19. kesä 2026
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This week in science, researchers have proposed that some black holes may have survived from before the Big Bang itself, emerging from a previous universe in what's called a cosmic bounce — and they could be hiding in plain sight within dark matter. A groundbreaking new long-read DNA test is poised to replace multiple existing diagnostic procedures, offering hope to patients trapped in years-long diagnostic odysseys for rare genetic conditions. Yale scientists have upended a foundational rule of vision science by discovering that the retina's visual pathways — long believed to work independently — are actually communicating with each other in ways nobody expected. Geologists are sounding the alarm over Southern California's major fault system, which is under more stress than at any point in the last thousand years, with conditions resembling those that preceded the region's largest historical earthquakes. And in a stunning feat of biological cartography, scientists have completed the first-ever global map of Earth's underground fungal networks, revealing a hidden superhighway stretching 68 quadrillion miles beneath our feet. 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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