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🔬 Your Brain Is Leaving Clues, The Arctic May Have Crossed A Point Of No Return & 100,000 New Worlds Are Coming

8 min · 1 de jun de 2026
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A simple writing test could be an early warning signal for cognitive decline — and that's just the start of this week's mind-bending discoveries. Scientists have also managed to biologically rejuvenate aging mice by restoring their gut microbiomes, while AI analysis of CT scans has revealed that a long-forgotten organ may be one of the strongest predictors of how long you'll live. NASA's upcoming Roman Space Telescope is poised to discover more exoplanets than all previous missions combined, potentially rewriting what we know about life in the universe. And back on Earth, researchers may have cracked why Ozempic stops working for some people — and engineered a plastic that can destroy itself in less than a week. 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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