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4 hours ago

Astronomers aim to take revolutionary' moving image of black hole

Astronomers will use the Event Horizon Telescope to record the first movie of the M87 supermassive black hole to study its rotation and jet-launching mechanisms.
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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Rocket Report: Ariane 64 to debut soon; India has a Falcon 9 clone too?

NASA is rolling out the SLS and Orion for Artemis II with a likely no-earlier-than February 8 launch pending the outcome of a wet dress rehearsal.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

NASA's Artemis II mission will be humankind's long-awaited return to the moon

Artemis II prepares for a crewed lunar test flight with SLS/Orion rollout, extensive prelaunch tests, and a readiness-driven launch prioritizing astronaut safety.
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4 hours ago

Inventor says robo-vaccination machine could be used to combat bovine TB

So Tony Cholerton, a zookeeper who had been a motorcycle engineer for many years, invented Robovacc a machine to quickly administer vital jabs without the presence of people. The result, a clever contraption he controlled from an adjacent room with a handset taken from remote-control toy aeroplanes, successfully administered vaccinations to Cinta in a feeding area. The tiger sat up briefly, mid-meal, as the needle penetrated her rear end, then calmly continued eating.
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14 hours ago

Teenagers up to 30: It's false that the brain suddenly becomes an adult at 25

Frontal-lobe development continues into the 30s, so the claim that brain maturation finishes at 25 is an oversimplified misconception.
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14 hours ago

The technology that reveals what happens in 0.00000000000000000000001 second

Attosecond-scale light pulses reveal ultrafast electron dynamics, enabling new studies of materials, quantum processes, and biological structures, and have earned major scientific awards.
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18 hours ago

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer

The team, which is being led by Jülich neurophysics professor Markus Diesmann, will leverage the Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research (JUPITER) supercomputer for their simulation. JUPITER is currently the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world according to the TOP500 list, and features thousands of graphical processing units. The team demonstrated last month that a " spiking neural network " could be scaled up and run on JUPITER, effectively matching the cerebral cortex's 20 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections.
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12 hours ago

Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we're not talking about | TechCrunch

In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space " in the next couple of decades " and "mostly," he'd said, "because they want to," because robots will be more cost-effective than humans for doing the actual work in space.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 day ago

Inside Selkirk's high-tech pickleball lab, where they use a 'performance cannon' and 'Thor's hammer' to make top-of-the-line paddles

Selkirk builds advanced pickleball paddles and operates a private sports science lab conducting high-speed durability testing and investing heavily in R&D to stay ahead.
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fromwww.npr.org
22 hours ago

Opinion: Remembering Ai, a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee

Ai, a West African-born chimpanzee at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, displayed exceptional cognitive abilities and died of natural causes at age 49.
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20 hours ago

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

That's what a startup called GRU Space - the letters apparently stand for "Galactic Resource Utilization" - is offering to would-be vacationers after the company opened its website for online reservations this week, as reported by Ars Technica. If all goes to according to plan, the first truly one-star hotel will start accommodating guests in the 2030s. It all sounds pretty far fetched,
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 day ago

Rare genetic form of diabetes detected in newborn babies for first time

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
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1 day ago

Environmental Changes May Make Sharks Less Dangerous

Ocean acidification can corrode and degrade shark teeth, reducing serrations and root structures and threatening foraging efficiency, energy uptake, and elasmobranch fitness.
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21 hours ago

10 Ways To Use Hydrogen Peroxide To Keep Your Kitchen Spotless - Tasting Table

If you were a child of the '70s or '80s, you may remember the bubbling sound of hydrogen peroxide fizzing on an open wound. Back then, it was the go-to for parents who were looking to disinfect the cuts and scrapes that their kids would come home with. Since then, science has shown that it's actually not all that great for a wound, but there's no need to throw out that bottle if you do find one.
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fromFast Company
1 day ago

The power that'll fuel NASA's Gateway Lunar Space Station

NASA's Gateway will use two roll-out solar arrays (ROSAs), each football-end-zone sized, delivering 60 kilowatts continuously to power the lunar station.
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fromLondon On The Inside
2 days ago

Learn How to Biohack Your Mind and Body at the 1N Labs Pop-Up

1N Labs Shoreditch pop-up offers biohacking experiences, free immersive weekend sessions, brain-mapping, cognitive drinks, and nicotine lozenge tastings through Feb 6, 2026.
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fromHarvard Gazette
1 day ago

How COVID-era trick may transform drug, chemical discovery - Harvard Gazette

A pooled group-testing approach applied to catalyst screening dramatically reduces experiments needed to identify cooperative catalyst combinations for chemical reactions.
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fromNature
3 days ago

Daily briefing: Cancer cells stay hidden using stolen mitochondria

Cancer cells acquire immune-cell mitochondria that activate a mitochondrial pathway enabling immune evasion and lymph-node invasion.
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fromFortune
1 day ago

For 15 years, a neuroscientist has studied raccoon intelligence in Central Virginia. Then a drunk one passed out in a nearby liquor store | Fortune

Raccoons are highly intelligent, curious problem-solvers overlooked by neuroscience because practical lab constraints favored rodents.
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fromFuturism
1 day ago

Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

SETI@home used distributed volunteer computing to analyze radio telescope data, producing large datasets and refining sensitivity despite no confirmed extraterrestrial detections.
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

Here's How to Profit From NASA's Artemis Moon Missions

Amentum, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Rocket Lab stand to capture multi-billion-dollar revenue from NASA's Artemis lunar program.
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1 day ago

Winter Night Out Idea: See Classic Sci-Fi Films in a Planetarium | KQED

Chabot offers adult Sci‑Fi Nights with planetarium screenings, free public telescope viewings, late NASA Ames Visitor Center access, and youth sky programs.
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fromFast Company
1 day ago

Neuroscience just showed how 1 type of activity stops your brain from aging

Regular engagement in creative activities correlates with younger brain age, stronger neural connections, and greater benefits for higher expertise, with dancing adding physical advantages.
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fromScienceDaily
1 day ago

Vitamin A may be helping cancer hide from the immune system

Retinoic acid signaling in cancer cells and dendritic cells suppresses anti-tumor immunity, and blocking this pathway restores vaccine effectiveness.
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fromFast Company
1 day ago

The northern lights could be visible in more than a dozen U.S. states this weekend

Northern lights may be visible across up to 15 US states Friday, with peak visibility between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

How Precision Sniper Technology Reduced the Need for Massed Infantry

Infantry once relied on numbers to solve uncertainty. When soldiers could not see or hit targets precisely, the answer was more troops and more fire. Sniper technologies quietly overturned that logic. By extending range, improving accuracy, and increasing awareness, they allowed small teams to dominate space once controlled only by massed formations. Precision replaced presence, and patience became a battlefield advantage. Here, 24/7 Wall St. is taking a look at the sniper technologies that totally changed the game.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

Astronomers Spot Mysterious Bar-Shaped Cloud of Iron Inside an Iconic Nebula

A bar-shaped cloud of ionized iron atoms, with slightly more mass than Mars, was discovered in the Ring Nebula and its origin remains unknown.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

Mysterious Little Red Dots' in Space Are Likely Cloaked Black Holes

Giant, rapidly growing black holes enshrouded in dense ionized gas likely explain the early-universe “little red dots” seen by JWST.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago

Has figure skating reached the limits of human performance?

It was at a relatively minor event in upstate New York in September 2022 that Ilia Malinin, the self-anointed Quad God who was fast becoming the biggest name in figure skating, finally landed the jump that so many people had thought impossible. Others had tried quad axels in competition over the years. All of them had fallen. That extra 180 degrees of rotation necessary for the only jump in skating that starts with a forward-facing entry proved to be a half-revolution too much.
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fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

2026 stargazing: Eclipses, meteor showers and supermoons

Except for penguins and Antarctic scientists, few will be able to enjoy February's annular solar eclipse. That's because this eclipse will see the moon pass between the Earth and sun across the path of the southern continent, reaching a maximum at around 12:12pm UTC. People living in Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the southern parts of Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia, will only see a partial eclipse March 3.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The whole thing was just mind-blowing': my trip into the abyss to see the Titanic

Andrew Rogers won a supermarket competition that sent him on a rare civilian expedition to view the Titanic wreck aboard Russian submersibles in 1998.
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from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

Triple-Leveraged Biotech ETF Doubles as Regulatory Winds Shift in 2026

Triple-leveraged LABU multiplies daily biotech index returns threefold, offering amplified gains and losses tied to biotech FDA catalysts and sector momentum.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

How Music Enhances Our Brains and Our Lives

Music training strengthens brain rhythms and learning increases synthesis of proteins necessary for memory, supporting neuroplasticity and resilience against age-related decline.
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2 days ago

BP accused of insidious' influence on UK education through Science Museum links

Campaigners have accused BP of having an insidious influence over the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) in the UK through its relationship with the Science Museum. Documents obtained under freedom of information legislation show how the company funded a research project that led to the creation of the Science Museum Group academy its teacher and educator training programme which BP sponsors and which has run more than 500 courses, for more than 5,000 teachers.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

In Florida, the temperatures are plummeting. Iguanas might do so, too

Green iguanas (Iguana iguana) are not native to the U.S. but were brought to Florida in the 1960s, where they have, for the most part, flourishedexcept, that is, when temperatures have dropped below 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). These chilly conditions can cause a cold shock in the lizards. And because the iguanas tend to sleep in trees, getting cold shocked can sometimes cause the animals to fall from the skies in an infamous Florida phenomenon.
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fromTravel + Leisure
1 day ago

A Complete Guide to the Best Meteor Showers to Watch in 2026

2026 meteor showers offer easy, low-effort viewing under dark skies, with notable events including the Lyrids and Eta Aquariids having distinct peaks and viewing conditions.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

Incredibly Well-Preserved Cheetah Mummies Show Big Cats Once Roamed Saudi Arabia

Researchers have discovered the naturally mummified and skeletal remains of 61 cheetahs, which were hidden deep inside caves in northern Saudi Arabia for hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of years. The find indicates that these big cats roamed the Arabian Peninsula for millennia before they disappeared from the landscape between 49 and 188 years agoevidence that bolsters an effort to rewild the region with modern-day cheetahs, according to Ahmed Boug, general director of the National Center for Wildlife in Riyadh.
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1 day ago

Mosquitoes Show a Clear Preference for Human Blood after Deforestation

Mosquitoes in remnants of Brazil's Atlantic Forest predominantly fed on humans, showing species-level preference linked to deforestation and increased disease risk.
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fromZDNET
3 days 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.
fromNature
4 days ago

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

DNA variants near a gene called MSRB3 - which is important for hearing in humans - could determine whether a dog's ears are pendulous like a basset hound's or stubby like a rottweiler's. Researchers analysed the genomes of thousands of canines and found that small, single-letter changes to DNA in a region of the genome near MSRB3 could boost the gene's activity. The boost can increase the rate at which ear cells proliferate, resulting in longer ears.
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2 days ago
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NASA astronauts left space yesterday. They just splashed down off San Diego.

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NASA astronauts left space yesterday. They just splashed down off San Diego.

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fromFast Company
3 days 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
2 days 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
2 days 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.
2 days 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
3 days 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
2 days 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
2 days 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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2 days 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
3 days 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
3 days 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
2 days 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.
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2 days 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
2 days 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
3 days 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
3 days 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
2 days 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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2 days 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.
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2 days 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
3 days 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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2 days 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.
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2 days 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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2 days 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
3 days 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
3 days 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
4 days 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.
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4 days 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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fromwww.ocregister.com
3 days 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
4 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
4 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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4 days 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.
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