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To See a Star's Face, You Have to Interfere with It

The only major difference between the sun and the stars we see at night is that the sun happens to be close to uswhich is advantageous, assuming you enjoy being alive. Astronomers enjoy this as well but have another reason for rejoicing in the sun's proximity: this allows us to see it as a disk. The sun is, of course, three-dimensional.
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1 hour ago

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold

Supercomputing remains focused on high-precision FP64 workloads, driving specialized architectures, large-scale industry participation, and persistent trade-offs between performance and application changes.
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1 hour ago

Mystery of the Temple of Venus is SOLVED after 2,000 years

Roman builders used volcanic materials in Temple of Venus construction, producing geomaterials that consolidate and remain durable for nearly 2,000 years despite ground subsidence.
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How to Measure the Earth's Radius With Legos

More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are some pretty obvious clues, after all. If you travel south, you see stars and constellations you've never seen before (because they're blocked by Earth's curvature). When a ship comes into port, you see the top of it before the bottom (because the ocean surface is curved). Finally, when Earth's shadow falls on the moon in a lunar eclipse, the shadow is a circle. I mean, c'mon!
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1 hour ago

Reintroduced carnivores' impacts on ecosystems are still coming into focus

Human hunting and management, more than large carnivores, primarily drive elk, moose, and deer population changes across most mainland systems.
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2 hours ago

14-year-old won $25,000 and 1st place for his innovative work on origami

I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects.
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6 hours ago

Ask Ethan: What's the point of exploring the Universe?

There are some major problems facing humanity in the 21st century, and they're all going to require an enormous investment of our collective resources if we want to solve them. From climate change to global pandemics to the energy and water crises and more, none of these problems are going to solve themselves. If they're to be solved at all, it's going to come down to humanity's collective actions.
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13 hours ago

Will boats be a breakthrough for 3D printing tech?

After two years of experimentation, the material was finally right: a particular mix of thermoplastics and fibreglass that is strong, has no need of extra coating to protect it from sunlight, and is resistant to fouling and marine growth. The perfect base, says Mr Logtenberg, from which to 3D print a boat. Boats need to withstand the unforgiving nature of the marine environment.
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13 hours ago

Author Correction: Evidence for improved DNA repair in the long-lived bowhead whale

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8 hours ago

Russia's only way to send astronauts to space just suffered serious blast damage

Russia's only crewed launchpad at Baikonur was severely damaged during a Soyuz liftoff, dislodging its service bay, though the crew was unharmed.
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13 hours ago

Russian space agency says cosmodrome damaged after joint launch with US

Damage was detected at Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad after the Soyuz MS-28 launch; Roscosmos reports reserve elements are available and repairs will be completed very soon.
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13 hours ago

French fry facial? Scientists are turning potato into 'skincare gold'

Potato plant waste contains solanesol and vitamin K2 that can be used in cosmetics to support collagen, antioxidant protection, and replace tobacco-derived ingredients.
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21 hours ago

UK partnership extends fibre optic tech for more reliable radio comms | Computer Weekly

Aston University and Pulse Power & Measurement will develop a radio-over-fibre prototype to amplify and extend radio signals over fibre optics for ultra-stable, long-distance communications.
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23 hours ago

What we can learn from butterflies

Ever since I first read Janine Benyus's Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, I've descended into a rabbit hole in search of what " intelligence " really means (and who has it). Perhaps that's why I love the name of this newsletter so much. [It's a worm, after all. A humble, indispensable critter buried beneath the soil.] Benyus's central argument is that the "smartest" solutions to human problems already exist in nature. We just need to know where, and how, to look for them. (For instance: wind turbines inspired by humpback whales.)
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22 hours ago

Inside Cummins' multi-energy strategy for the bus market: from LFP batteries to Euro VII, gas and hydrogen engines - Sustainable Bus

Cummins advances parallel decarbonisation pathways by developing LFP battery packs and continuing investment in advanced combustion, hydrogen, and natural gas technologies.
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Blue Origin announces Super-Heavy New Glenn 9x4 to Rival SpaceX Starship

Blue Origin is developing the New Glenn 9×4 super-heavy rocket to carry 70 metric tons to LEO with uprated BE-4/BE-3U engines and increased reusability.
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23 hours ago

Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA stays in

The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project. During Director General Josef Achbacher's speech at the agency's Ministerial meeting, where funding is debated and projects proposed and selected, he said [PDF]: "Just yesterday, I received very good news from NASA to confirm their contribution to the Rosalind Franklin Mission."
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A structured system: the secrets of Germany's scientific reputation

In 2019, shortly after finishing her master's at Nanjing University in China, Xinyi Zhao opened an e-mail to learn that she had been offered a PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. "When I told my parents, they asked me to double-check whether the offer was real, as they weren't familiar with the institute." But Zhao knew of its glowing scientific reputation.
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22 hours ago

Earthquake swarm rattles California on Thanksgiving

Multiple small earthquakes occurred near The Geysers geothermal field, where geothermal operations and local faults contribute to frequent, sometimes induced, seismicity.
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NASA astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving with Russian cranberry sauce

International Space Station crew will celebrate Thanksgiving with a special group meal of space-safe festive foods shared among multinational astronauts and arriving crew.
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Your body may already have a molecule that helps fight Alzheimer's

Spermine induces misfolded amyloid proteins to clump into harmless aggregates, offering a potential therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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Scientists come up with method to stop the Gulf Stream collapsing

Melting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could save the Gulf Stream, a remarkable new study reveals. The vast icy mass in the southern hemisphere contains around 750,000 cubic miles of ice - enough to fill Wembley Stadium nearly three billion times. As it melts, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet sends salty water towards the North Atlantic, which helps the water stay dense enough to keep the crucial ocean current moving, the study authors reveal.
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19 hours ago

The Biology of Gratitude

Gratitude triggers neurochemical responses that reduce stress, elevate mood, enhance empathy and brain plasticity, and communal rituals amplify these biological benefits.
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21 hours ago

Just one session of weight training boosts brain power, study finds

In the study, they tracked 121 adults aged between 18 and 50 and split them into two groups. All underwent cardiovascular fitness tests and were quizzed about their lifestyle. Two days later, all participants then gave blood samples and had an electroencephalographic (EEG) scan to record the electrical activity of the brain. The first group then did sets of weight exercises of moderate difficulty, while the other was asked to watch a video of adults performing resistance exercises. The resistance exercises lasted for 42 minutes.
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21 hours ago

Free King Tides Walk + Science Talk (Palo Alto)

Free, interactive King Tides learning walk at Palo Alto Baylands with a hands-on science talk; highest tide at 12:24pm; register on EventBrite due to limited space.
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23 hours ago

Germany news: ESA plan for German astronaut to head to moon DW 11/27/2025

The European Space Agency aims to include a German astronaut in an Artemis moon mission, while a German-Turkish family in Istanbul died from insecticide poisoning.
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UN says planetary defenses will observe interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Starting on November 27, a global team of scientists with the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) will kick off a two-month campaign to track the comet as it nears our planet. 'While it poses no threat, comet 3I/ATLAS presents a great opportunity for the IAWN community to perform an observing exercise due to its prolonged observability from Earth and high interest to the scientific community,' the UN explains on its website.
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21 hours ago

Scientists baffled as halo of red light appears over Italian town

A rare red halo over Possagno, likely an ELVE caused by lightning-driven electromagnetic pulses, was photographed twice in three years.
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Kiira Motors electric coach completes first 1,700 km of a 13,000-km trans-African journey - Sustainable Bus

Kiira Motors Corporation has concluded a 1,771-kilometre electric coach run across Tanzania along its journey on the Made in Uganda Grand Trans-Africa Electric Expedition, which is offering the company a detailed set of observations on long-distance electric coach operation in East African conditions. The company was founded a few years ago and is owned by the State of Uganda. It focuses on the development of zero emission vehicles.
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17 hours ago
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Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

Perseverance's microphone recorded 55 short electrical discharges ('mini lightning') on Mars during dust storms and dust devils over two Martian years.
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This is what lightning on Mars sounds like

Mars' Perseverance recorded 55 'micro-lightning' electrical discharges, revealing electrostatic activity that influences Martian chemistry and instrument design.
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20 hours ago

Inside the mating rituals of turkeys- from wingmen to sexy snoods

Most Americans think of turkeys in November, but for wild turkeys, the real drama unfolds in spring, when breeding season transforms forests and fields into complex social arenas filled with high-stakes courtship. During this time, male turkeys, or toms, display a striking combination of physical traits and behaviors to attract females, including gobbling calls, fanned tails, sharp spurs, hair-like beards on their chests, and the elongated snood draping over their beak, which research shows is a key factor in female choice.
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Having Nightmares? What Foods You Eat Before Sleeping Might Be The Culprit - Tasting Table

A 2025 study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, surveyed more than a thousand college students to find out how they thought food affects their sleep and dreams. About 40% said certain foods make their sleep better or worse. Only 5.5% said food changes their dreams, which suggests there is not one surefire, nightmare-inducing snack, so much as sensitive people whose guts and sleep are tightly linked.
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18 hours ago

Fever helps the body fight off viruses: But how does it work?

Fever can directly hinder some viruses: elevated body temperature alone reduced certain viral infections in mice, independent of immune activation.
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20 hours ago

Florida professor may have solved mystery of Peru's Band of Holes

A Florida archaeologist's decades-long persistence has helped solve one of Peru's most puzzling geographical conundrums: the origin and purpose of the so-called Band of Holes in the country's mountainous Pisco Valley. Charles Stanish, professor of archaeology at the University of South Florida, and an expert on Andean culture, spent years studying the more than 5,200 curious hillside shallow pits known to local residents as Monte Sierpe - serpent mountain.
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2 days ago

India satisfies its supercomputing needs, not its ambitions

India's National Supercomputing Mission has built substantial compute capacity and local indigenization but still lacks domestic semiconductor leadership and a completed homegrown CPU.
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1 day ago

Norway's new supercomputer to use waste heat to raise salmon

Olivia supercomputer multiplies Norway's computing capacity sixteenfold using AMD Turin CPUs and Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips to support diverse scientific and AI research sustainably.
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Author Correction: Photocatalytic low-temperature defluorination of PFASs - Nature

Researchers are affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China and Nanjing Tech University; correspondence directed to Jian-Ping Qu and Yan-Biao Kang.
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1 day ago

Shai-Hulud v2 Campaign Spreads From npm to Maven, Exposing Thousands of Secrets

Shai-Hulud v2 compromised npm and Maven artifacts, infecting PostHog-linked releases to backdoor developer machines and exfiltrate API keys, cloud credentials, and tokens.
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2 days ago

Why the world must wake up to China's science leadership

China is rapidly building scientific and technological self-reliance through large R&D spending, innovation-focused policy, and growing STEM graduate capacity.
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2 days ago

The Venus project

Afrodi passionately prefers Venus's volatile, potentially habitable past and sisterly danger to the popular Mars colonization obsession.
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1 day ago

China's Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Just Released Its First ResultsAnd They're Promising

JUNO's 59-day run produced world-leading measurements of two neutrino oscillation parameters and advances prospects for determining the neutrino mass ordering.
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1 day ago

Russia's Soyuz 5 will soon come alive. But will anyone want to fly on it?

The Soyuz 5 rocket, also named Irtysh for a river that flows through Russia and Kazakhstan, answers to that purpose. Its first stage is powered by a single RD-171MV engine, which at sea level has three times the thrust of a single Raptor 3 engine, and is part of a family of engines that are the most powerful liquid-fueled rocket engines in the world. The RD-171MV uses only Russian components.
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2 days ago

Thalamocortical transcriptional gates coordinate memory stabilization

The molecular mechanisms that enable memories to persist over long timescales from days to weeks and months are still poorly understood1. Here, to develop insights into this process, we created a behavioural task in which mice formed multiple memories but only consolidated some, while forgetting others, over the span of weeks. We then monitored circuit-specific molecular programs that diverged between consolidated and forgotten memories. We identified multiple distinct waves of transcription, that is, cellular macrostates, in the thalamocortical circuit that defined memory persistence.
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1 day ago

This Video of a Robot Playing Basketball Is EXTREMELY Impressive

Unitree G1 humanoid robot was programmed to play basketball using SkillMimic to mimic human and ball motions, executing dribbles, jump shots, and pivots.
fromWIRED
2 days ago

Boeing's Next Starliner Flight Will Only Be Allowed to Carry Cargo

NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 mission, the space agency said. Launching by next April will require completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities, NASA added in a statement. "NASA and Boeing are continuing to rigorously test the Starliner propulsion system in preparation for two potential flights next year," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, in a statement.
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How your body could outlive the genome you were born with

As humans, we all want the same thing, a life that's full of good experiences, more time with family, with friends, more time to love, but sometimes genetic illness can cut that short or really, for all of us at some point, our body breaks down. And our bodies are genetic machines. For many diseases, the cause of the disease is a mutation in the genome. Gene therapy is a vision that many have had for decades, more than 50 years.
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When Math Meets Mind

Observer-relative time dilation can make long computations feasible for local observers near strong gravity, altering notions of computational efficiency for finite minds.
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ULA aimed to launch up to 10 Vulcan rockets this year-it will fly just once

Vulcan launches face delays driven by solid rocket motor performance concerns and inspections despite available hardware and ongoing launch infrastructure upgrades.
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2 days ago

Radical new theory of consciousness explains what happens when you die

Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria Strømme, a professor of nanotechnology at Uppsala University. Instead, she claims that it exists as a fundamental field. If this is correct, 'mysterious' phenomena such as telepathy, near-death experiences, and even life after death could finally be explained by science. According to Professor Strømme's theory, consciousness does not end when we die. Instead, when a person passes away, their consciousness simply returns to the background field.
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2 days ago

Time for a CRISPR discussion about genetic engineering

Gene editing in agriculture requires consistent regulatory oversight because exempting edited crops risks unchecked entry into the food supply and uneven safety standards.
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2 days ago

Forget Yellowstone! Hidden volcanoes pose the greatest risk

Poorly monitored 'hidden' volcanoes can erupt unexpectedly and cause severe, far-reaching hazards, as shown by the long-dormant Hayli Gubbi eruption.
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2 days ago

Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission and robotic operation - Nature

Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission encodes and transmits force information via peak force signals enabling intelligent control in constrained environments.
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2 days ago

Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature

174 participants (104 female, 70 male; mean age 29.3) underwent 7T fMRI while watching concatenated film clips across four runs with REST periods.
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1 day ago

Mars Has Lightning, Scientists Prove

Mars experiences electrical activity and lightning caused by triboelectrification of wind-blown dust and sand, confirmed by Perseverance acoustic and electromagnetic detections.
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2 days ago

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature

Two adult male rhesus macaques performed a fixation-based task discriminating morphing stimuli varying continuously in colour and shape along circular continua.
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Lab Beagles: What Science and All of Us Owe To Research Dogs

Beagles are very popular companion dogs and also very popular among breeding facilities and research laboratories where they live highly compromised lives, all "in the name of research" to help humans. 1 Many, if not most people, have no idea what goes on behind these closed doors. I've often wondered why these wonderful dogs rather than others wound up being used for a sorts of research, and now I know because of Dr. Brad Bolman's excellent new book Lab Dog.
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2 days ago

How studying lions' roars with AI can help with conservation efforts

AI analysis revealed a previously unrecognized lion roar type and enabled individual identification, offering a new tool for lion monitoring and conservation.
fromThe Atlantic
1 day ago

A Cascade of Lies About Turkey

There's a fairy tale about Thanksgiving that gets refuted every fall. Does eating turkey really make you fall asleep? When science writers check in with the experts, they always get the same response: No, no, no, and no. Also no and no. These holiday debunkers tell you what the science says: Turkey meat is not a sedative. They tell you what the studies show: Drumsticks don't produce fatigue.
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2 days ago

Are raccoons AKA trash pandas really evolving into cute pets? One theory says yes | Helen Pilcher

So it was with interest that I learned that urban raccoons in North America are showing signs of domestication. A study in Frontiers in Zoology suggests that the animals are evolving to be as the mainstream media puts it cuter and more pet-like. Jump ahead three thought bubbles and I'm picturing me, holding paws with my new pet, skipping through the daisies to the tune of Daydream Believer. But could this really be?
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2 days ago

Flam: James Watson had a brilliant mind and a broken moral compass

James Watson co-discovered DNA's double helix yet later expressed racist, bigoted views, tarnishing his legacy despite genetics showing recent common human origins in Africa.
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Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction - Nature

Reduced cellulose synthesis enables roots to penetrate compacted soil by promoting ethylene-driven radial cortical expansion and soil fissure formation.
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2 days ago

A California geological wonder sits just off Highway 395

Fossil Falls is an accessible, fossilized waterfall shaped by ancient basalt lava flows and Ice Age rivers, revealing the region's volcanic and glacial geological history.
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2 days ago

The Moon's two faces don't match, and we think we know why

The Moon dominates Earth's night sky, appearing much larger and brighter than Venus and showing varied surface features—craters and maria—that reveal its geological history.
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2 days ago

Many genes associated with dog behavior influence human personalities, too

Many dog breeds are noted for their personalities and behavioral traits, from the distinctive vocalizations of huskies to the herding of border collies. People have worked to identify the genes associated with many of these behaviors, taking advantage of the fact that dogs can interbreed. But that creates its own experimental challenges, as it can be difficult to separate some behaviors from physical traits distinctive to the breed-small dog breeds may seem more aggressive simply because they feel threatened more often.
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Scientists uncover dark new behavior among bloodthirsty rats

Brown rats ambush and kill bats in darkness using whisker sensing, potentially decimating colonies and increasing risk of zoonotic pathogen transfer.
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Scientists Finally Solve Mystery of Ancient Fossil Foot

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside the species we know as Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, without a skull or teeth to analyze, they couldn't be sure. What they did know is that unlike Lucy, which walked upright on arched feet like our own, the mystery foot had a grasping toe that was adapted for climbing trees.
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Wild Turkeys Went from Almost Gone to Millions Strong

Wild turkey populations rebounded from near-extinction due to habitat loss and overhunting, recovering to more than six million across the U.S.
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2 days ago

The origins of your dog's unique look may be older than you think

Most physical diversity in domestic dogs, including varied skull shapes, had already emerged by about 10,000–11,000 years ago, predating Victorian selective breeding.
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Dying for fame: Singers die 4 YEARS earlier than non-famous people

Fame among singers is associated with higher mortality: famous singers die about four years younger than comparable lesser-known singers.
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Why Won't Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector

He was thrilled; this was the first leopard seal he'd ever seen in Chile, where he is from. As he peered through his binoculars, he noticed another, smaller seal: a pup. "I got so excited, and then we got there, and it's dead," he said. As the boat drew nearer, he could see the pup was still haloed in downy white hairs, suggesting it was less than a week old. Its head was submerged and its limp body was frozen to the ice.
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Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites | TechCrunch

Satellite-powered AI and subsurface sensing expanded the known extent of a massive Quebec lithium deposit and reduced drilling-targeting time to 48 hours.
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Boeing's troubled Starliner won't carry astronauts on its next mission

Boeing and NASA will fly the next Starliner as a cargo-only test to validate propulsion and safety before resuming crewed missions.
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NASA Says Boeing's Busted Starliner Spacecraft Won't Be Allowed to Carry Astronauts on Next Mission

In a statement, NASA revealed that it agreed to modify Boeing's existing 2014 Commercial Crew contract to have Starliner carry cargo only for its first operational flight, Starliner-1, which is tentatively scheduled for "no earlier than April 2026." "Following Starliner certification, and a successful Starliner-1 mission, Starliner will fly up to three crew rotations to the International Space Station," NASA's statement reads.
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2 days ago

China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth

A rapid Shenzhou 22 launch restored Tiangong's crew lifeboat after Shenzhou 20 damage, reflecting standard orbital emergency-response practice and recent spacecraft incidents.
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SpaceX maintains unbelievable Starship target despite Booster 18 incident

As per the company, "the Starbase team plans to have the next Super Heavy booster stacked in December, which puts it on pace with the test schedule planned for the first Starship V3 vehicle and associated ground systems." SpaceX then announced that Starship V3's maiden flight is still expected to happen early next year. "Starship's twelfth flight test remains targeted for the first quarter of 2026," the company wrote in its post on X.
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3 days ago

NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity

NASA reduced Boeing Commercial Crew missions from six to four, designating one uncrewed Starliner flight to validate post-test-flight upgrades before crewed use.
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China sends replacement transport to Tiangong space station DW 11/25/2025

China launched Shenzhou-22 to Tiangong station to restore astronauts' emergency return capability after Shenzhou-20 damage left an 11-day gap.
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3 days ago

Earthquakes, hurricanes and floods: protecting the people who live in hazardous places

People face exposure to natural disasters and intense fires; historical archive material contains images and language now considered offensive and harmful.
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3 days ago

Formation of oceans within icy moons could cause the waters to boil

Periodic orbital interactions can cause subsurface oceans in small icy moons to cyclically form and boil as interiors melt and shrink beneath the ice.
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Harnessing the Power of Memory

Memories can be actively manipulated by targeting specific hippocampal neurons, enabling recall modulation and altering mood-related behaviors in animal models.
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3 days ago

We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person

Single individuals can harbour extensive mosaic genetic variation, including chromosome arm gains or losses, Y-chromosome loss, and diverse DNA deletions or duplications across cells.
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2 days ago

Which Thanksgiving Pie Gives You the Biggest Sugar Rush?

Pecan pie has the most sugar, but its higher protein and fiber slow glucose release; pumpkin ranks next, and apple has the least sugar.
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3 days ago

Supermassive black holes came before stars in ancient galaxies

Supermassive black holes appear far earlier and larger than theoretical limits allow, despite the early Universe's extreme near-uniformity.
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3 days ago

This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet

Around 410 million years ago, terrestrial life was relatively simple. There were no forests or prairiesland was largely dominated by slimy microbial mats. The types of plants that would eventually give rise to trees and flowers had only just evolved and would take another several million years to fully flourish and diversify. A new discovery is rewriting the story of how these vascular plants, as they are called, spread onto land.
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3 days ago

Cocoa and tea may protect your heart from the hidden damage of sitting

Regularly consuming flavanol-rich foods like tea, berries, apples, nuts, and cocoa can protect men's blood vessels from vascular decline caused by prolonged sitting.
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The ocular microbiome: more than meets the eye

The eye hosts a low-density yet influential microbiome, including slow-growing Corynebacterium mastitidis, which affects ocular health and requires extended culture or sequencing to detect.
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