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A YouTuber's experiment implanting a mapped fruit fly brain into Minecraft went viral, but scientists say the hype obscures what actually…
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“It's a snapshot of one brain — a dead brain at that — not a living, breathing creature that truly perceives what is going on.”— Polygon · full quotes →
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Swedish team cuts quantum computing cycles from thousands to one, reducing errors and moving toward fault-tolerant systems.
began Sep 9now
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“The fundamental building blocks of quantum computers, known as qubits, are so sensitive that even the smallest disturbance can cause the quantum state to…”— Lei Du · full quotes →
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The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model will help researchers analyze decades of lunar data to support human return missions.
began Sep 10now
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“IBM is going to the Moon. Sort of.”— Sam Becker, Fast Company writer · full quotes →
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Spectroscopy of gas released by 3I/ATLAS shows it formed at temperatures below -240°C, far from its home star.
began Sep 8now
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“Powerful, large-format IFUs with high sensitivity in the blue optical spectrum – like WEAVE-LIFU on the WHT – are opening new frontiers for the study of comets…”— Rubén Sánchez-Janssen · full quotes →
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PM pitches India as space partner, citing ISRO's track record and ambitious 2035-2040 targets.
began Sep 10now
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“We invite France and the world to be co-travellers in India's next space frontier”
— PM Narendra Modi · full quotes →
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Analysis of 3,000 type Ia supernovas challenges the standard cosmological model that treats dark energy as fixed.
began Sep 7now
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“We've rebuilt 3 decades of astronomical observations into a single, consistent framework… Instead of confirming the standard model of cosmology, which assumes…”— Ryan Camilleri · full quotes →
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Fermi Explorer, a $15 million probe using existing technology, is billed as a message-in-a-bottle expected to be overtaken before it arrives
began Sep 7now
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“Even it it would work after all that time, the signal would get lost in noise.”— Oh_ffs_seriously · full quotes →
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Archaeologists near Chan Chan found a Chimu funerary platform sealed for nearly 600 years, escaping the plunder that destroyed most other…
began Sep 8now
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“the discovery of the decade”— Unnamed archaeologist, archaeologist quoted by NYT · The New York Times · full quotes →
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A newly documented octopus species challenges assumptions about cephalopod solitude and reproduction.
began Sep 9now
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“The more I learn about octopus, the more they seem like alien species. They have something like 8 different brains, can regenerate limbs, incredibly smart, can…”— tiffanyh · full quotes →
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Research team uses anechoic chamber to understand how tobacco hornworms sense predators through tiny body hairs.
began Sep 2now
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“Our ongoing research suggests the tobacco hornworms can hear using tiny, supersensitive hairs on their body.”— Binghamton University research team, Biologists and engineers · Phys.org · full quotes →
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An international team used a new 'Quantum Galileo Interferometer' to show gravity affects a quantum superposition exactly as Einstein's…
began Sep 2now
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GSLV-F17 successfully places the 2,367-kg satellite into transfer orbit, ending ISRO’s quiet stretch since its January 2026 launch failure.
began Sep 1now
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“I am very happy to announce that the GSLV-F17 vehicle has successfully and precisely injected the advanced Earth observation satellite EOS-05 in the intended…”— V. Narayanan, ISRO Chairman · The Hindu · full quotes →
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University of Florida researcher Christopher McCurdy, who advises policymakers on kratom safety, accepted travel, donations, and symposium…
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“The leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, a substance that has left a trail of death and addiction around the world, has routinely…”— ProPublica · full quotes →
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Research identifies key molecular pathways that could lead to new drug treatments for severe autism.
began Sep 2now
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“It's an unprecedented resource for the field. A lot of people interested in understanding autism and drug development are going to be using this.”— Dr. Daniel Geschwind, Professor of human genetics at UCLA · NPR News · full quotes →
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The rotorcraft's 17,315 feet of wiring and 374 connectors are now in place as the 2028 launch approaches.
began Sep 3now
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“The harness doesn't do anything by itself, but it is necessary for everything else to function.”
— Jackie Perry, Dragonfly lander harness lead, APL · NASA (science.nasa.gov) · full quotes →
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The Isle of Mull bird that experts didn't expect to survive has been photographed soaring over Scotland's west coast.
began Sep 3now
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“I'm in awe of this bird!”— Dave Sexton, Retired RSPB officer, sea eagle expert · BBC News · full quotes →
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An MIT committee co-chaired by Eric Klopfer and Samuel Madden says AI can credibly complete nearly all coursework, pushing schools toward…
began Sep 2now
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“credible solutions and provide reasonable responses to almost any written assignment”— MIT Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training, MIT faculty committee · gadgetreview.com article · full quotes →
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A 2002 paper by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch on deadline effects, cited over 2,100 times, shows signs of fraud.
began Aug 31now
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“We conclude that the data in Studies 1 and 2 were tampered with.”— Datacolada researchers · Datacolada blog post · full quotes →
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Israeli structural biologist who unlocked the ribosome's atomic structure has died.
began Aug 31now
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“Yonath was one the country's Israel's greatest scientific minds, winning numerous awards over her decades-long career”— Times of Israel, News outlet · full quotes →
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A 6,500-year-old circular enclosure near Prague shows deliberate solar and lunar alignments a millennium before Stonehenge's.
began Sep 1now
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“Circular enclosures are completely unknown in our region for this period, which already makes the site exceptional.”— Petr Krištuf, Lead archaeologist, University of West Bohemia · UWB press release · full quotes →
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A pea plant pulled from a Kinsale garden led three schoolgirls to a three-year home experiment challenging expert consensus on cereal…
began Aug 30now
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Genetically modified marine bacteria boosted rock weathering by 2.6-fold, potentially scaling up a natural climate process to industrial…
began Aug 28now
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“Our study embraces the concept of biologically inspired engineering and how synthetic biology can be applied to enhance normal climate-regulating processes…”— Pamela Silver, Wyss Institute Founding Core Faculty member · Wyss Institute at Harvard · full quotes →
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A new nonprofit backed by Starcloud's founders plans a $15 million, 2029 launch of a 1kg probe on an 80,000-year journey to another star…
began Sep 1now
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“I also got excited and then disappointed!”— Philip Johnston, Starcloud/Fermi Explorer founder · TechCrunch · full quotes →
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The NASA observatory launches successfully toward its destination 1 million miles away, where it will survey dark energy and distant stars.
began Aug 30now
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“The combined gravity of the Sun and Earth will give Roman a stable vantage point with a clear, unobstructed view to survey deep space.”— Reddit post · Reddit · full quotes →
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The joint Mercury probe must now separate its twin orbiters before settling into polar orbit around the planet.
began Aug 31now
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Research led by Sean Raymond suggests the Sun captured non-native material during close encounters with other stars over 4.6 billion years.
began Aug 29now
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“The Solar System has long been suspected to contain captured, non-native material. The recent ISO discoveries have now confirmed directly that extraterrestrial…”— Sean Raymond, Lead researcher, Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory · 404 Media · full quotes →
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A spike in sick sea lions off the Central California coast is linked to a toxin in algae causing disorientation and seizures.
began Aug 28now
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“A spike in the number of sick sea lions off the Central California coast has specialists concerned about a brain-altering toxin in algae they said is causing…”— NY Post reporting · NY Post · full quotes →
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23d ago
The provided materials contain only headline titles with no article text, quotes, or substantive content.
began Sep 1now
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More than 100 volunteer expert panels advising on long COVID, vaccines and other research have been shut down since Trump took office, with…
began Aug 29now
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“something that could benefit so many individuals like myself and my community”— Netia McCray, Long COVID patient, former advisory committee member · NPR · full quotes →
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The young elephant received an experimental mRNA shot targeting elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, a leading killer of young elephants.
began Aug 31now
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“Tula-Tu is the first elephant on the West Coast to receive an mRNA vaccine for elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus.”— The Oregonian, news outlet · full quotes →
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A Vermont project with 6,000 young trees aims to restore the iconic species by breeding for natural resistance to the pathogen that killed…
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“The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back.”— AP News · AP via Feedx · full quotes →
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Researchers find that blocking AHR protein could enable damaged nerves to regrow in mice with nerve and spinal cord injuries.
began Aug 28now
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“When neurons are injured, they must deal with stress while also trying to regrow their axons. We discovered that AHR functions like a brake that shifts neurons…”— Hongyan Zou, Study senior author, Mount Sinai · Science Daily · full quotes →
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A quantum gravity-based navigation system delivered 10x better accuracy than conventional methods in its inaugural sea test.
began Aug 28now
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“World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea”— Interesting Engineering · Google News (Interesting Engineering) · full quotes →
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Only 1,811 cuttlefish arrived to breed on South Australia's Cuttlefish Coast this year, down 97% from 63,000 last year.
began Aug 25now
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“Along the eight kilometres of coastline, there would normally be millions of eggs… we only found about 440 eggs.”— Manny Katz, Diver and researcher · BBC News · full quotes →
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Researchers find that blood molecule patterns predicting lifespan in dogs mirror those in humans, offering insights into aging biology.
began Aug 29now
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“Researchers with the Dog Aging Project found that patterns of small molecules in dogs' blood were linked to longer or shorter lifespans in remarkably similar…”— Dog Aging Project · Science Daily · full quotes →
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