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Physicists used a thorium-229 nucleus to build a clock 100x more precise than the best atomic clocks. It could detect dark matter and redefine how we measure time itself.

Researchers turned CRISPR into a search-and-destroy tool that targets cancer cells' unique DNA vulnerabilities — including cancers that no existing drug can touch. 937 HN points for a reason.

ICE investigators went directly to county election officials and got individual voter registration files. Emails obtained by Axios show it happened in at least two counties.

A dev's simple ethical rule for the AI era went mega-viral: 1,644 HN points. The core argument is deceptively obvious — and hard to argue with once you hear it.

While everyone watches AI stocks, the rest of the world has been quietly writing one of the most remarkable chapters in modern financial history. You probably missed it.