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14 hours ago

At 25, Wikipedia embodies what the internet could have been - but can it survive AI?

Wikipedia is the world's most popular online encyclopedia and the most successful open data project, but AI creates new challenges and long-term threats.
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2 days ago

Daily briefing: Why 'harmless' germs can be deadly for some people

DNA variants near MSRB3 increase gene activity and ear-cell proliferation, producing pendulous ears in some dog breeds.
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fromFast Company
14 hours ago

Is Elon Musk losing the space cellphone war?

Two competing satellite strategies—massive LEO constellations of small satellites versus a few giant satellites—are racing to provide global mobile internet and affect planetary health.
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fromNextgov.com
9 hours ago

House science committee to host hearing on National Quantum Initiative Act

Congressional committee will hold a Jan. 22 hearing to assess the National Quantum Initiative's progress and federal quantum R&D, amid reauthorization and increased funding proposals.
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fromVulture
8 hours ago

Life After Melvyn Bragg

In Our Time is an austere, long-running BBC Radio 4 program convening experts to explore esoteric subjects and reaching over two million weekly listeners.
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from24/7 Wall St.
9 hours ago

Up 158% in 2026, Is Critical Metals Too Hot to Touch?

Critical Metals ( NASDAQ:CRML ) shares rocketed 32.6% higher yesterday after the company announced the first assay results from its 2025 drilling program at the Tanbreez rare-earth project in southern Greenland. The results confirmed additional high-grade intersections across the Fjord Deposit and Upper Fjord areas, building on prior drilling success. The stock has now surged approximately 158% year-to-date in 2026 as investors bet on the project's advancement toward a pilot plant launch targeted for May.
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fromBig Think
18 hours ago

It's time to stop teaching the biggest lie about Hawking radiation

Hawking radiation arises from quantum-field effects near horizons; the popular particle–antiparticle pair popping explanation is incorrect and misleading.
fromThe Verge
7 hours ago

Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first customer for Nuton Technologies, which developed the "bioleaching" technology. AWS will also be providing "cloud-based data and analytics support," helping to optimize Nuton's mining process. Nuton's bioleaching method uses naturally-occurring microorganisms to extract copper from low-grade ore that would otherwise be too expensive to mine,
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fromFast Company
8 hours ago

NASA astronauts return to Earth early after a medical evacuation

An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station. Their first stop was a hospital for an overnight stay.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
9 hours ago

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging Behind

A majority of Americans value U.S. scientific leadership, but Democrats increasingly believe the country is losing ground while Republicans view scientific standing more positively.
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fromNature
1 day ago

A 'time capsule for cells' stores the secret experiences of their past

Engineered TimeVaults capture and store cellular mRNA to continuously record past transcriptional activity, enabling retrospective study of cellular history and responses.
fromNature
1 day ago

PhD students' taste for risk mirrors their supervisors'

A researchers' propensity for risky projects is passed down to their doctoral students - and stays with trainees after they leave the laboratory, according to an analysis of thousands of current and former PhD students and their mentors.
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fromPsychology Today
4 hours ago

Vaping vs. Smoking

Popular disposable e-cigarette pods leach multiple toxic metals at levels exceeding cancer and non-cancer risk thresholds, posing heightened health risks, especially for youth.
fromKqed
5 hours ago

From the Galapagos to the Deep Sea, Cal Academy Scientists Describe 72 New Species | KQED

What we learned was something that hadn't been reported before," Mendales said.
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fromTechCrunch
10 hours ago

Exclusive: How one startup is using probiotics to try and ease the copper shortage | TechCrunch

Microbe-enhancing additives can potentially raise copper yields 20–30%, helping address a projected copper supply shortfall and attracting venture investment into biotech mining solutions.
fromCN Traveller
15 hours ago

What does the 2026 solar eclipse mean for your star sign?

If there's one date sky-gazers have marked in their diaries for 2026, it's the 12 August total solar eclipse. Set to be the year's most-watched celestial event, it takes place when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, temporarily plunging the summer sky into darkness over Balearic beach clubs, Spanish city streets and Icelandic music festivals. So far, so dramatic, right? Just wait until you discover what it means for your star sign.
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fromHigh Country News
16 hours ago

How geology not only shapes the world, it shapes us - High Country News

My father was a petroleum geologist. A lot of my childhood, he was gone, away on oil rigs in the Powder River Basin and remote parts of Wyoming, living in man camps long before cellphones. We had to wait days to talk to him. When he went into the nearest town to shower, he'd find a payphone and call us. I was always breathless with news.
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fromwww.latimes.com
13 hours ago

California diver documents close encounter with lacy, undulating sea creature far from home

It looked like the silvery blade of a knife. Peering through his goggles, diver Ted Judah had laid eyes on a deep-sea creature rarely encountered by humans. He and wife Linda were diving off McAbee Beach in Monterey County in late December when, near the surface, he spotted the undulating thing. It was some kind of ribbon fish, he wrote in a post on the Facebook group Monterey County Dive Reports. Kevin Lewand solved the mystery.
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9 hours ago

Saltwater vs. Traditional Chlorine - Social Media Explorer

Saltwater pools generate chlorine on-site via electrolysis, producing steadier sanitizer levels, softer-feeling water, and different maintenance and equipment requirements compared with manually dosed chlorine systems.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 hours ago

Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds

Signs of ageing accelerated when fish were exposed to the chemicals, according to the study, which could have implications for other organisms. Chemical safety regulations tend to focus on short-term exposure to high doses of pesticides and other chemicals, but the study focused on long-term exposure. Low doses of pesticides are widespread in the environment, so their effects should be studied and understood, the authors said.
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fromOpen Culture
1 day ago

Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon's The Birds of America

Our sus­pi­cions have lit­tle to do with biol­o­gy, but rather, a cer­tain zesti­ness of expres­sion, an overem­phat­ic beak, a droll gleam in the eye. The Audubon Society's new­ly redesigned web­site abounds with trea­sure for those in either camp: Free high res down­loads of all 435 plates. Mp3s of each specimen's call. And vin­tage com­men­tary that effec­tive­ly splits the dif­fer­ence between sci­ence and the unin­ten­tion­al­ly humor­ous locu­tions of anoth­er age.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
13 hours ago

Culex molestus': What the London Underground mosquito species says about us

Human activities, both direct and indirect, have profoundly altered evolution of many species through domestication, artificial selection, and creation of new ecological niches.
fromFlowingData
11 hours ago

Names most likely to appear in the middle

What is the most middle name in the United States? Erin Davis grew curious enough to find the answers in data. For females, the most middle names are Rae, Marie, and Mae. For males, the most middle names are Lee, Kumar, and Ray. The answers are straightforward, but finding the answers was more roundabout, because you can't just dig into the annual baby names dataset from the Social Security Administration. Instead, Davis used voter registration data, which comes with its own challenges.
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fromBuzzFeed
9 hours ago

35 Extremely Obvious Things I Just Learned For The First Time That Completely And Totally Blew My Mind

Alligator and crocodile visuals differ; Japanese TV labels uneaten food with "the staff ate it later"; coin mints sometimes produce misprinted pennies.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy will build a long-duration fission reactor on the lunar surface within four years to power Artemis missions.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

What Physics Might Be If It Were Left to Psychologists

Physics requires classification beyond magnitude-based P-levels; the Five Fs—force, friction, flux, formulation, foundational structure—better capture heterogeneous physical activities.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 day ago

Beach hazards statement affecting Bay Area Shorelines until Thursday night

Coastal North Bay, San Francisco Peninsula, Monterey Bay, Big Sur and San Francisco County face sneaker waves, strong rip currents, and 7–12 ft breaking waves.
fromTheregister
1 day ago

India's flagship rocket fails for the second time in a row

The PSLV - aka the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - is an expendable medium launch rocket that India devised and has flown since 1993. ISRO has launched 64 of the rockets and chalked up 58 successes. This mission, PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1, employed the PSLV-DL variant of the rocket, which uses a pair of external boosters. Other PSLV variants use four or six external boosters. The mission was a commercial affair, with 15 payloads aboard.
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1 day ago

NASA sends 4 astronauts back to Earth in first medical evacuation

An astronaut required medical care, prompting NASA's first ISS medical evacuation and early return of four crew for ground evaluation and Pacific splashdown.
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fromNature
2 days ago

Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire mitochondria from immune cells to weaken those immune cells and activate type I interferon signaling that promotes lymph-node invasion.
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fromNature
2 days ago

Direct observation of the Migdal effect induced by neutron bombardment - Nature

The Migdal effect enables detection of MeV–GeV light dark matter by producing detectable electronic recoils from nuclear recoils, overcoming current detector threshold limits.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

NASA set to bring astronaut (and the rest) of Crew-11 home early for medical reasons

A Crew-11 astronaut is returning to Earth early for medical evaluation, marking the first medical evacuation in the International Space Station's 25-year history.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

The Milky Way's Central Black Hole May Have Appeared Shockingly Different Just a Few Hundred Years Ago

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Scientists aren't entirely sure how these beating hearts at the centers of most large galaxies formed. That includes Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what happens as material falls toward the black hole.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

String Theory May Have a New Neuroscientific Niche

Mathematical tools from string-theory contexts can model biological branching networks such as neuronal wiring without implying a fundamental link between string theory and consciousness.
fromNature
2 days ago

Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis - Nature

Eukaryotes drastically differ from archaea and bacteria (collectively, prokaryotes) by the complex organization of eukaryotic cells. The signature features of this organizational complexity include the eponymous nucleus, the endomembrane system, the elaborate cytoskeleton and the energy-converting mitochondrion, which evolved from an alphaproteobacterial endosymbiont9. Thus, the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) probably already possessed mitochondria along with the other signatures of the eukaryotic cellular organization.
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fromBig Think
1 day ago

How "tribology" became a new industrial science

the automation of heavy machinery enabled plants to operate continuously, increasing productivity and revenue. The downside was that any small hiccup was acutely felt, cascading through the production line. At first, it was assumed that inadequate lubrication of factory equipment was causing parts to seize up or break apart. And so, the Lubrication and Wear Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, along with the Iron
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fromArchDaily
1 day ago

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota Transform MAE Carbon Fiber Archive Into an Interactive Museum in Italy

MAE Museum transforms a major carbon-fiber archive into an interactive "living museum" showcasing carbon-fiber science, production processes, and broad industrial and architectural applications.
fromFuncheap
1 day ago

Chabot's Solar Eclipse Viewing Watch Party & Festivities (2026)

Join Chabot astronomers for a live watch party of the magnificent Total Lunar Eclipse from Chabot's Observation Deck. Bring your friends & family and a lawn chair to enjoy Eclipse-themed crafts and demonstrations, then get bundled up with a cup of hot cocoa to watch this stunning celestial show. During the peak of the Eclipse, The Moon will become totally engulfed in Earth's dark
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fromBig Think
1 day ago

New JWST lens survey: can it save the expanding Universe?

Observations from within the local Universe limit measurements, producing conflicting Hubble expansion rates (67 vs 73 km/s/Mpc), motivating new methods such as JWST multiply-lensed supernova observations.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

It's Time to Celebrate Animal Sentience and Stop Squabbling

Many nonhuman animals, including insects, are sentient and experience emotions such as joy and pain, and sentience should be recognized broadly.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action

Royal Society supports expelling fellows only for fraudulent or invalid scientific achievement, not for unpopular behaviour, so Elon Musk's fellowship remains intact.
fromThe Atlantic
1 day ago

Your Muscles Remember Your Strongest Moments-And Your Weakest

In 2018, Sharples and his research lab, now at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, were the first to show that exercise could change how our muscle-building genes work over the long term. The genes themselves don't change, but repeated periods of exertion turns certain genes on, spurring cells to build muscle mass more quickly than before. These epigenetic changes have a lasting effect: Your muscles remember these periods of strength and respond favorably in the future.
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2 days ago
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Wolf pup's stomach yields DNA from one of world's last surviving woolly rhinos

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Wolf pup's stomach yields DNA from one of world's last surviving woolly rhinos

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1 day ago

Former Blue Jay Jose Urena signs with NPB's Rakuten Golden Eagles

Since Ureña also made a brief stint with the Los Angeles Dodgers last season, appearing in just two games after being granted his release from the Blue Jays, he's in line to receive a World Series ring later this year. He was guaranteed to take home a championship ring with two of his former teams - Toronto and Los Angeles - squaring off in the Fall Classic.
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fromNews Center
1 day ago

Novel Mechanism Regulates Essential Enzyme Production in Kidneys - News Center

PIEZO2 mechanosensitive ion channels in juxtaglomerular cells enable direct sensing of renal blood flow and pressure to regulate renin release and influence kidney function.
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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf's stomach

Woolly rhino effective population fell from about 15,600 to 1,600 between 114,000–63,000 years ago, then stabilized around 1,600 breeding individuals.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

T. rex Never Stopped Growing, Dinosaur Bone Study Suggests

Tyrannosaurus rex grew longer and larger than previously believed, typically reaching at least 8.8 tons and stopping growth between 35 and 40 years.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

How Seed Oils Became the Villain of Social MediaAnd What the Science Really Says

Seed oils are common in many processed foods and are controversial, but claims that they are uniquely toxic are unsupported by evidence.
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fromNature
2 days ago

How ageing harms the body's response to raging infection

Some genes that protect against infection in young mice increase mortality in old mice by altering organ-specific immune endurance.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

What Makes Men Attractive? Science Reveals the Ideal Body

Male attractiveness correlates more strongly with lower body fat percentage and BMI than with larger muscle size.
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fromNature
4 days ago

Daily briefing: The neural circuit that can make it hard to start a difficult task

A neural 'motivation brake' reduces willingness to begin unpleasant tasks; suppressing it in macaques increased initiation, suggesting potential implications for treating motivation deficits in depression.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

How Serious Games Tackle Serious Problems

Serious games use entire games to solve real-world problems like climate change, wealth inequality, and political polarization, achieving research, education, and behavior-change outcomes.
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fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Ammobia says it has reinvented a century-old technology | TechCrunch

Reducing Haber-Bosch costs and emissions could expand ammonia's role beyond fertilizer as a storable, transportable energy carrier and industrial decarbonization feedstock.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

What Can Gaming Do for Our Intelligence?

Effective intelligence — attention, working memory, decision-making, and learning speed — is trainable through experience and interventions such as gaming, leveraging neuroplasticity.
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2 days ago

US begins countdown to return to the Moon amid doubts over the risks faced by its astronauts

NASA prepares Artemis II crewed lunar test mission amid an ISS evacuation and mounting safety concerns about the Orion capsule's reentry heat shield.
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fromTheregister
2 days ago

Got $1M to burn? Apply for a spot in this Moon hotel

GRU is selling reservations for an inflatable Moon hotel targeting deployment by 2032 with deposits of $250,000–$1,000,000 and expected final costs above $10 million.
fromBig Think
2 days ago

The four paths forward for US scientists in 2026

For nearly 100 years, the United States has been the world's leader in a wide variety of scientific fields. No other country has: invested as much in fundamental scientific research, has made more scientific breakthroughs and scientific advances, has attracted more scientific researchers to move there to conduct their research, or has conducted more projects and been home to more scientists that have won Nobel Prizes.
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2 days ago

Convening The TrueHoop Ideas Summit, With Henry Abbott | Defector

Frontiers of human-body science, NBA injury causes, detailed calf anatomy, electromagnetic radiation as a possible factor, and a high-school court pillar used for setting picks.
from24/7 Wall St.
2 days ago

Up 96% in Just 1 Month, Is Planet Labs Now Too Pricey to Buy?

Planet Labs ( ) has been on a tear, soaring 388% in 2025 and up another 96% since reporting earnings one month ago. The stock is up an incredible 811% from its 52-week low of $2.79 per share. While it has been winning significant government contracts, such as yesterday's announcement that it won a nine-figure contract from the Swedish government, which drove the stock 12% higher, PL is unprofitable and likely won't be for some time.
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2 days ago

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

NASA's MAVEN orbiter went offline December 6 after unexpected rotation; recovery is very unlikely though a post-conjunction contact attempt remains possible.
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2 days ago

Steve Ramirez, neuroscientist: We have been able to restore memories that were thought to be lost'

The engram is a physical change in the brain that stores memories and can be reactivated to recreate past experiences.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 days ago

Vertical Solar PanelsWind-Resistant Trackers for High Latitudes

A startup is developing wind-adaptive, vertical-tracking solar panels to improve energy capture at low sun angles in higher latitudes but prototypes have suffered structural failures.
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2 days ago

Quantum cameras could remake space-based intelligence

Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a "quantum camera" for space-based imaging. If it works, it could slash the cost of missile defenses and give smaller NATO allies and partners spy-satellite capabilities that were once exclusive to major powers.
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fromNature
3 days ago

AlphaFold can help African researchers to do cutting-edge structural biology

Structural biology is essential for understanding diseases and for developing drugs and vaccines. Africa has few specialists in this field, owing to limited infrastructure, training and mentorship opportunities - despite the efforts of non-profit organizations such as BioStruct-Africa, which I co-founded. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00072-3Competing Interests E.N. received a 2024 Google Award for a socially impactful project enabled by AlphaFold and Google DeepMind sponsorship in 2025 to support the BioStruct-Africa structural-biology training event (series 6). E.N. is also supported by a Wellcome Trust award (grant number 222999/Z/21/Z).
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2 days ago

High-Power Fast Charging Is The Leading Cause Of EV Battery Degradation: Report

Batteries in electric vehicles that regularly use 100-plus-kilowatts fast chargers degrade faster than those that rely primarily on slow charging, a new study suggests. Using fast chargers more frequently can cause some packs to lose nearly a quarter of their capacity in eight years, it claims. We've seen other studies suggest that fast charging has little impact on long-term battery health, so it's not a settled debate.
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2 days ago

NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible

Pandora telescope launched to Sun-synchronous orbit will observe 20+ exoplanets and their host stars in one year to remove stellar noise from planetary signals.
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2 days ago

A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

High-profile findings of microplastics in human tissues likely reflect contamination and methodological limitations, leaving health impacts uncertain.
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fromBusiness Matters
4 days ago

Alessandro Cotrufo: Building a Career Around Aviation Discipline

Aviation training instills rigorous discipline, accountability, and professional habits that shape a long-term career approach and leadership.
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2 days ago

He invented mini saunas for frogs now this biologist has big plans to save hundreds of species

Conservation biologist Anthony Waddle uses innovative frog saunas to protect frogs from the deadly chytrid fungus threatening global amphibian populations.
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fromIndependent
2 days ago

Cheers, banners and pride for Kerry's Young Scientist winner, Aoibheann, as she returns to school

Aoibheann Daly, a 15-year-old Transition Year student, won the 2026 Stripe YSTE top prize for GlioScope, aimed at improving brain cancer treatment.
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fromFlowingData
2 days ago

Your interpretation of uncertainty language compared

Verbal probability expressions can be mapped to percentage values between 0% (impossible) and 100% (definite) to quantify uncertainty.
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2 days ago

'Making the Invisible Visible' Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

Digitizing museum analog catalogs and microscope-slide invertebrate collections preserves fragile records and makes thousands of specimens accessible to researchers and the public.
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fromNature
3 days ago

Don't assume that women's low retraction rates reflect male 'boldness'

Attributing fewer retractions in women-led research to male scrutiny, bolder ideas, or larger teams implies male scientists are inherently better.
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