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2 hours ago

Intuitive Machines-known for its Moon landers-will become a military contractor

Intuitive Machines expands from lunar-focused contractor to multi-domain space prime by acquiring Lanteris, gaining satellite manufacturing capabilities and broader NASA and defense contracts.
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fromNature
4 days ago

Daily briefing: A 'Google Maps' for Roman roads

High-resolution Roman-road maps reveal vast network, detailed cell atlases map early brain development, more scientists run for office, and tiny tyrannosaur settles paleontology debate.
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1 day ago
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A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation

Reconfigurable arrays of up to 448 neutral atoms implement key elements of a universal, fault-tolerant quantum-processing architecture enabling experimental exploration of underlying mechanisms.
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13 hours ago

Aubrey de Grey's $100K hypothesis challenge: Your AI co-pilot for longevity research - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Aubrey de Grey's $100K Hypothesis Challenge uses an AI agent trained on unpublished LEV Foundation data to democratize and fund global longevity hypothesis generation.
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fromHarvard Gazette
9 hours ago

No one knows the answer, and that's the point - Harvard Gazette

A pilot course trains small cohorts to tackle longstanding unsolved scientific problems by cultivating creative, interdisciplinary thinkers rather than narrow disciplinary expertise.
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11 hours ago
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Bezos's Blue Origin postpones second rocket launch over poor weather

Blue Origin postponed the New Glenn launch due to weather and ground issues and will attempt another launch and booster recovery ahead of a Mars mission.
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13 hours ago
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Blue Origin scrubs second New Glenn launch

Blue Origin scrubbed New Glenn's second launch due to weather, delaying NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission; next launch window set no earlier than Nov 12.
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fromwww.nature.com
1 day ago

Flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 33.6% efficiency

A flexible perovskite/crystalline-silicon tandem solar cell achieved 33.6% PCE, 2.015 V Voc, strong mechanical durability and long-term operational and damp-heat stability.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
21 hours ago

Investors' dumb transhumanist ideas' setting back neurotech progress, say experts

Neurotechnology advanced significantly, but high-profile investors' transhumanist rhetoric distorts public understanding and diverts focus from therapeutic goals.
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fromwww.nature.com
1 day ago

Flexible perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with a dual buffer layer

Dual SnOx buffer layers—a loose stress-dissipating layer and a compact conductive layer—reduce sputtering-induced damage, enhance adhesion, and preserve charge extraction in flexible perovskite/silicon tandems.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Today's Instagram Trivia Answers

The Pentagon has 17.5 miles of hallways; Jupiter is now credited with 97 moons; Mega Millions and Powerball have each crossed billion-dollar jackpots multiple times.
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fromFast Company
7 hours ago

Fast Company and Johns Hopkins University partner for the first-ever World Changing Ideas Summit

The World Changing Ideas Summit convenes leaders to drive actionable innovation across healthcare, space exploration, and physical AI through immersive experiences and cross-sector partnerships.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
8 hours ago

Is Space the Place for Earth's Next Evolutionary Leap?

Human technology enables permanent expansion of life from Earth into the solar system, making space the next evolutionary frontier and potential safeguard for life's future.
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fromArchDaily
19 hours ago

Lighter and Stronger, Composites Are Changing How We Build

Combining distinct materials into composites produces superior performance, from ancient mud-and-straw adobes to modern engineered matrices reinforced with glass, carbon, or natural fibers.
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1 day ago
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The Harvard scientist, Kim Kardashian and the comet that probably isn't an alien spaceship

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The Harvard scientist, Kim Kardashian and the comet that probably isn't an alien spaceship

fromTheregister
13 hours ago

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew

SpaceX and Elon Musk are once again being called on to rescue spacefarers - this time, the Chinese crew of Shenzhou-20, delayed on China's Tiangong space station after suspected space debris damage. The three-person crew including Chen Dong, Chen Zhongui, and Wang Jie, arrived in April and were supposed to return in November after a handover with the Shenzhou-21 crew. That return has been postponed while engineers assess potential damage from what reports describe as "a tiny piece of space debris."
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fromMedium
3 hours ago

The color reflex: Psychology that fires before you think

Brain processing delays and the subjective yet measurable nature of color transform light and animation timing into altered user perception.
fromArs Technica
8 hours ago

Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes

The researchers used cosmological simulations to recreate the first 700 million years of cosmic history, focusing on the formation of a single dwarf galaxy. In their virtual galaxy, waves of stars were born in short, explosive bursts as cold gas clouds collapsed inside a dark matter halo. Instead of a single starburst episode followed by a steady drizzle of star formation as Garcia expected, there were two major rounds of stellar birth. Whole swarms of stars flared to life like Christmas tree lights.
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fromInsideHook
1 day ago

A Sperm Racing Startup Raised $10 Million This Year

Sperm racing exists as a competitive spectacle in 2025 and a business venture, raising funding, selling fertility supplements, and prompting ethical and scientific skepticism.
fromFast Company
16 hours ago

Need smart, creative, employees who will master their jobs? Science says hire people in their 30s, 40s, and even 60s

The same is often true for entrepreneurs. A Journal of Business Venturing study found that the most successful entrepreneurs tend to be middle-aged, even in tech. In fact, a 60-year-old startup founder was three times more likely to launch a successful startup than a 30-year-old startup founder, and nearly twice as likely to launch a startup that landed in the top 0.1% of all companies in terms of revenue and profits.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
17 hours ago

Why do people love spicy food even when it hurts to eat it?

Capsaicin triggers TRPV1 nociceptors, producing a burning sensation and autonomic defenses like tearing, sweating, and nasal discharge rather than a taste response.
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fromNature
1 day ago

Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA

Hamilton Smith co-discovered type II restriction enzymes, won the 1978 Nobel, advanced genome sequencing including the first complete and synthetic-genome cell.
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fromwww.nature.com
1 day ago

Author Correction: The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations

Data availability was incomplete and now includes phylogenetic datasets, analyses, and 3D segmented CT models at Dryad DOI https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cvdncjth4.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
9 hours ago

Did you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off a brilliant new lateral thinking puzzle

Both Smith and Jones died because each drank a weak poison before the ceremony and brought water instead of a stronger poison, so no antidote neutralized the ingested poison.
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fromThe Atlantic
8 hours ago

The Paradox of James Watson

Outstanding scientific achievements do not erase or outweigh morally reprehensible statements and actions; legacies remain morally complex and unresolved.
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fromNature
1 day ago

Want a younger brain? Learn another language

Speaking multiple languages is associated with about half the likelihood of accelerated biological ageing and may slow brain ageing and reduce cognitive decline.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
8 hours ago

Why Science Quickly's Interim Host Kendra Pierre-Louis Hates MayoAnd What It Reveals about Food Psychology

Kendra Pierre-Louis will serve as interim host of Science Quickly while Rachel Feltman is on parental leave until spring 2026.
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fromTasting Table
1 day ago

Mixing Vinegar With Cornstarch: What Makes This Cleaning Combo So Effective - Tasting Table

Mix cornstarch and vinegar to create a cheap, gentle, effective DIY cleaner that removes stains, absorbs moisture, and cleans glass, marble, and bathroom buildup.
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fromBig Think
19 hours ago

How the "meter" came to be exactly one meter long

Length standards evolved from body-based units to pendulums, bars, atomic wavelengths, and today the meter equals light travel in 1/299,792,458 second.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Bay Area scientists set to launch mission to Mars that could help pave way for human trips

Twin ESCAPADE satellites will orbit Mars to measure its atmosphere and magnetic field, revealing how space weather shaped atmospheric loss and aiding future human exploration.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Wired for Words: Understanding Language and the Brain

Language processing is fundamentally a species of sensorimotor processing sharing core neural architecture with non-linguistic sensorimotor systems.
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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Here's how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA's next Mars mission

ESCAPADE will launch two spacecraft aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn and enter an Earth loiter orbit to wait for Mars alignment in November next year.
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fromWIRED
1 day ago

The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves

Italian mathematicians achieved major advances toward understanding the complex mathematical behavior of even simple ocean waves governed by Euler's equations.
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James Watson, who co-discovered the DNA double helix when he was 24 years old, dies at 97 | Fortune

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James Watson, who co-discovered the DNA double helix when he was 24 years old, dies at 97 | Fortune

fromWIRED
2 days ago

Unpicking How to Measure the Complexity of Knots

In math, a knot is a tangled piece of string with its ends glued together. Two knots are the same if you can twist and stretch one into the other without cutting the string. But it's hard to tell if this is possible based solely on what the knots look like. A knot that seems really complicated and tangled, for instance, might actually be equivalent to a simple loop.
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fromBig Think
2 days ago

Starts With A Bang podcast #123 - Alien physics

Alien minds might infer different fundamental laws, observables, and mathematics because differing biology and environments could produce physics that looks unfamiliar to humans.
fromFuturism
2 days ago

New Paper Claims Everyone Is Wrong, Universe's Expansion Is Slowing Down

By observing the brightness of distant dying stars, astronomers have long come to believe that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. In fact, that apparent reality is deeply built into cosmological models: a mysterious force that influences the universe on the largest scales, dubbed dark energy, is believed to explain the acceleration. However, not everybody agrees with this widely accepted scientific consensus.
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fromTravel + Leisure
2 days ago

13 Best Space Museums in the U.S.

Visiting space museums offers hands-on exposure to modern space missions and careers, exemplified by Moonshot Museum's clean-room views and interactive lunar mission exhibits.
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fromwww.nature.com
2 days ago

Rubin Observatory Catches Iconic Galaxy by the Tail

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first test image revealed a previously unseen stellar stream extending from galaxy Messier 61, indicating a past minor merger.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

Wait, what? A RAT caught and ate a BAT? And there's video! What does it portend?

Urbanization-driven rat incursions into bat caves enable rats to bite and kill bats, creating a plausible route for transferring bat-borne viruses to humans.
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fromFuturism
3 days ago

NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage

Dozens of GSFC buildings are being emptied without notice during the federal shutdown, risking loss of specialized equipment and disruption of key NASA missions.
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fromwww.bbc.com
4 days ago

Fire-blocking chemicals promise safer buildings

Burnblock is a wood flame retardant that forms protective char, releases water to absorb heat, and uses undisclosed, reportedly natural components.
frominsideevs.com
3 days ago

Toyota's 40-Year Solid-State Battery Could Change Everything We Know About EVs

Toyota's next-generation electric vehicle batteries could vastly improve the driving range and charging speeds compared to today's packs. The company is reportedly working on cells that can last four decades and be reused multiple times during that period. The aging will happen with minimal energy degradation, the company claims. Writing about solid-state batteries feels like waiting for a train that's always five minutes away, but it never actually arrives.
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fromNature
4 days ago

Preprint site arXiv is banning computer-science reviews: here's why

arXiv will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science unless the papers have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue.
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fromTheregister
3 days ago

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

Continuous human habitation in space began on November 2, 2000 aboard an incomplete International Space Station that initially suffered power, software, hardware, and storage problems.
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fromNature
4 days ago

Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists

Researchers report rising pressure to publish while time, resources, and funding for research decline.
fromBusiness Matters
3 days ago

UK invests 14m in new quantum projects to boost health, defence and transport innovation

The UK Government has announced more than £14 million in new funding to accelerate the commercial use of quantum technology across healthcare, defence, transport and energy, in a move it says will help power Britain's next industrial revolution. The investment, unveiled on Friday at the National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London, marks a major milestone in the country's National Quantum Technologies Programme - part of its wider plan to translate cutting-edge science into real-world applications that drive economic growth.
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3 days ago

Hans Clevers, biomedical scientist: If I had colon cancer, I could grow my own tumor, test it with drugs, and see which one eliminates it'

Until now, preclinical trials relied primarily on two-dimensional cell cultures and animal models, which often failed to accurately replicate human biology. Since 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not required animal testing, thanks in part to organoids, which Hans Clevers (Eindhoven, 68 years old), professor of molecular genetics at Utrecht University, has been researching since the beginning of the century.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Anti-Science on the Rise, but One Book Is an Antidote

Humanizing scientists and explaining their motivations and persistence can restore credibility and counter anti-science attacks.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 days ago

A Piece of Space Junk Hit Their Ride Home. What Does This Mean for Space Exploration?

Orbital debris struck Shenzhou 20, delaying astronaut return and illustrating growing collision risk as space junk proliferates from launches, breakups, and collisions.
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3 days ago

First map of the developing brain provides insight into origin of mental disorders

Scientists are creating the first draft map of the human brain across development to catalog components from embryo to adulthood and enable future advances.
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fromMission Local
3 days ago

Tales from the bench: Inside UCSF's new public lectures series

Genetic techniques and collaborative detective work enable identification and treatment strategies for rare, often undiagnosed infectious diseases like Balamuthia.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 days ago

The COVID Pandemic May Have Aged Your BrainEven If You Never Got Sick

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic corresponded with an average brain age increase of about five and a half months in uninfected adults.
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fromYahoo News
4 days ago

America doesn't have enough babies. Could working from home deliver a baby boom?

Remote and hybrid work flexibility increases couples' likelihood of conceiving and planning children, accounting for roughly 80,000 additional U.S. births during 2021–2025.
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fromNature
4 days ago

Surprise 'tail' found on an iconic galaxy may rewrite its history

Rubin Observatory's first test image revealed a stellar stream from Messier 61, indicating it tore apart a smaller galaxy.
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fromArs Technica
3 days ago

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world

Stone toolmaking persisted across the Pliocene–Pleistocene climate shift, enabling hominins to process meat, dig for tubers, and demonstrate technological resilience.
fromSFGATE
3 days ago

Scientists conduct groundbreaking study in Calif.'s Death Valley National Park

Tested by the valley's extreme summertime heat, the flowering shrub Arizona honeysweet (Tidestromia oblongifolia) thrives. The humble-looking, seafoam green plant considers 113°F optimal for photosynthesis - the highest known temperature tolerance of any major crop species, according to new research. A team of scientists published the find on Friday in the journal Current Biology, revealing the plant's tricks for growing fast in heat and drawing lessons for how to engineer crops to withstand climate change.
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fromNature
4 days ago

A host of 'exocomets' swarms a distant star

Astronomers report that they've found a flock of comets passing in front of a star outside our own Solar System.
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fromTravel + Leisure
3 days ago

This Country Has Some of the Darkest Skies in the World-These Are the 10 Best Places to Stargaze There

As cities sprawl ever outwards, they bring their big lights with them, and the once-dark night skies overhead are being lost. But in New Zealand, thanks to its low population density, the skies have remained surprisingly dark, and over 96 percent of its landmass still has views of the Milky Way at night. DarkSky International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the night sky, has identified some of the best spots for witnessing the wonders of the cosmos across the island country.
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fromBig Think
3 days ago

Ask Ethan: Can Weber bars detect gravitational waves?

Weber-style bar detectors are critically limited by their small size compared with modern interferometers, making them unlikely to achieve sensitivity required to detect gravitational waves.
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fromState of the Planet
3 days ago

Humans Occupied a High-Altitude Site in Australia During the Last Ice Age, New Study Finds

Sites above 700 meters in Australia were inhabited during the Last Glacial Maximum, with hearths, tools, and long-distance stone transport despite harsh cold conditions.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 days ago

This Cave Holds a Spider Web Megacity the Size of Half a Tennis Court

A sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border contains a >1,040 ft² communal web housing about 111,000 spiders of Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans.
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fromLos Angeles Times
4 days ago

Baby pictures: Brown eyes, long arms, very hairy. L.A. Zoo welcomes new orangutan

A baby male Bornean orangutan was born at the Los Angeles Zoo on Oct. 10, the first such birth there in nearly 15 years.
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fromNature
6 days ago

Daily briefing: UK science is 'bleeding to death', says report

A remote black hole produced a record-breaking superflare, antibodies show promise against diverse viral strains, and UK research commercialization failures threaten its science sector.
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