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University of Glasgow researchers found undocumented oyster habitats by searching for Gaelic and Scots words in coastal place-names.
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“This is a really exciting outcome, for a project that started off looking for the historic distribution of oysters along the West Coast.”— Dr Anna McGregor, Coastal ecology expert, Project Eisirean lead · Mastodon · full quotes → 2 sources
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Scientists report unusually scarce wasp populations and smaller individuals, linking the collapse to spring weather swings and repeated…
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“If data back this up, their absence worries me greatly because – love them or hate them – wasps are important in ecosystems as pest-controllers, pollinators…”— Unnamed wasp biologist · full quotes → 3 sources
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Astronomers clash over whether mysterious cosmic objects are supermassive black holes or a new phenomenon: giant stars hiding black holes…
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“The field has gotten very polarized.”— Anna-Christina Eilers · full quotes → 4 sources
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will search for exoplanets by monitoring hundreds of millions of stars for the subtle brightness…
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“Microlensing is exciting because it functions as a tool that can help astronomers find planets that are difficult to find in other ways.”— Thomas Fauchez · full quotes → 3 sources
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Three brothers navigated human obstacles to set a record for land mammal dispersal, though poaching snares killed other pack members.
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“the glass is half empty and the glass is half full”— Professor Scott Creel · full quotes → 5 sources
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Stellar-occultation observations with the James Webb Space Telescope show the small Centaur's two-ring system has shifted over just a few…
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“JWST stellar occultation reveals unexpected changes in Chariklo's ring system”— @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz · full quotes → 4 sources
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Astronomers study the comet's ion tail for the first time, revealing it formed far from starlight in extremely cold conditions.
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“Finding that it's so rich in nitrogen tells us it likely formed in extremely cold conditions, far from its home star.”— Lea Ferellec · full quotes → 3 sources
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A 253-electrode BCI lets paralyzed patients speak and gesture simultaneously via AI, researchers report in Nature Neuroscience.
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“I Have a Lot to Say”— patient profiled by NYT · full quotes → 5 sources
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Yunnan University researchers built a moisture-tuned perovskite cell that keeps working meters below the ocean surface, addressing…
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“autonomous marine power systems and submerged Internet of Things infrastructure”— Researchers (Simin Ma's team) · full quotes → 5 sources
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Physicists used the Large Hadron Collider to simulate cosmic ray showers in the lab for the first time, testing competing computer models.
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“We used the world's first laboratory collisions of oxygen atoms with protons to simulate cosmic rays in the lab. Our results are now published in Physical…”— Jesse Liu · full quotes → 4 sources
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Brain imaging reveals deaf adults allocate more neural resources to edges of visual field, using sight as early-warning system.
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“Without sound cues, deaf people use vision as an 'early warning system' for peripheral events.”— Study researchers · full quotes → 5 sources
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Avi Loeb, Harvard astrophysicist leading the new UAP Science Advisory Council, says the US government is applying scientific rigor to…
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“I cannot disclose the contents but I will say that the U.S. government is sincere in its efforts to understand UAP based on the scientific method of data…”— Avi Loeb · full quotes → 2 sources
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A 1997 ornithological find led to the Jocotoco Foundation, which now protects 50,000 hectares and shelters one in eight of Earth's bird…
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“It had this crazy call, sounding like an owl; but we had no idea what it was, and to be honest I never thought we would find out.”— Robert Ridgely, Ornithologist · full quotes → 3 sources
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and partner telescopes released 16 new images showcasing galaxies across different types and evolutionary…
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“The NASA Chandra X-ray telescope team has released a gorgeous new gallery of galaxies 🤩 This is one of my favorites: II Zw 096.”— astraughnomer.bsky.social · full quotes → 2 sources
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Astronomers continue searching for a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer solar system that could explain clustering of distant objects.
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“The existence of a roughly Neptune-mass Planet Nine could explain why the few known extreme trans-Neptunian objects seem to be clustered together in space.”— Space.com · full quotes → 3 sources
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Research on people who cannot visualize challenges the theory that mental imagery works like perception in reverse.
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“ignore the adage that correlation does not establish causation”— Arnold and colleagues, Authors of review · Hacker News · full quotes → 4 sources
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Developer counts all possible 4x4 sudoku grids and puzzles using brute-force search and structural equivalence.
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“There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus! ... Or 288, depending on what counts as different solutions to you.”— baldino · baldino.dev blog · full quotes → 3 sources
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US researchers exposed artificial eye lenses to the International Space Station environment to determine if they can withstand…
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“A trip to Mars could take months. So what happens if an astronaut develops a serious eye problem halfway there?”— Euronews · full quotes → 3 sources
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Interactive visualization maps all known periodic orbits where three masses return to starting positions.
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“You can now contribute compute via your browser to help find novel orbits. If you find a linearly stable orbit, you get to name it!”— threebodyorbits · full quotes → 3 sources
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A near-real-time portal aggregating citizen-science bird sightings across Europe draws praise for its migration visuals and criticism over…
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“It's odd that you can see the borders between Belgium and France for various birds (like the swift and cuckoo), same for the border between Germany and Poland.”— 317070 · full quotes → 3 sources
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ESA's 2026 Space Environment Report finds its long-term sustainability index for orbital debris deteriorated by an order of magnitude in…
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“The time to tackle space debris is now.”— ESA · full quotes → 4 sources
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NOAA announces discovery of nine new sponge species in Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands, bringing known total to 232, as their habitat…
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“There are now more than 232 identified species of sponges in Alaska, and probably hundreds more that we don't know about yet.”— Sean Rooney · full quotes → 3 sources
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A new feasibility study finds even the best-case lunar water reserves can't sustain a million-person Moon city long-term, despite ample…
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“Even in the best-case scenario, with 98% efficient recycling of water — the same as achieved on the ISS —a one-million-person city will run out of water in…”— Martin Elvis · full quotes → 6 sources
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Skywatchers document rare alignment of crescent moon and Venus.
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“The crescent Moon and crescent Venus emerging from behind it, yesterday”— blisterpearl.bsky.social, Skywatcher, Bluesky user · Bluesky · full quotes → 2 sources
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Early winter rains trigger the best Murchison wildflower display in over a decade, with rare species thriving among CSIRO's observatory…
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“We've helped trace new populations of protected wildflowers, resulting in one already being reduced from a priority 1 to a priority 3 protected species last…”— Andrew Whitmarsh · full quotes → 3 sources
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Southern Illinois University researchers developed a system to transform PET plastic and agricultural waste into food ingredients through…
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“Microbes are very clever. So, we are using their traits to solve the problems we created.”— Lahiru Jayakody, Associate Professor, SIU Carbondale · Science Daily · full quotes → 4 sources
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Australia's only nuclear reactor, running since 2006 at Lucas Heights, is now also central to battery research.
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“In nuclear medicine, what they're doing is diagnosing, staging and treating diseases like cancer.”— Shaun Jenkinson, ANSTO CEO · full quotes → 4 sources
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NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day explains how hydrogen from the Big Bang, stellar fusion, and supernovae created the elements that make…
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“I kinda knew this, but it still blows my mind: "The hydrogen in your body and present in every molecule of water came from the Big Bang."”— juliette@mastodon.green · full quotes → 4 sources
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Serrapilheira Institute and other private funders are filling gaps left by government cuts, offering a hedge if the October election brings…
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“I don’t know what I would’ve done without that money”— Paulo Teixeira · full quotes → 3 sources
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A King's College London survey finds that perceived alignment with personal views matters more to public trust than scientific expertise.
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“Depends on the scientist Biology, physics etc yes 100% Social science no, that was clear when they tried changing the definition of racism”— TomorrowSpecial255, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes → 3 sources
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A new method using repeated observations could detect exomoons despite instrument noise, though this target showed none.
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“These still-theoretical moons orbit exoplanets in other star systems, and JWST was supposed to find a plethora of them.”— Phys.org · full quotes → 3 sources
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An Australian sea lion at Seal Bay, Kangaroo Island, died of H5 bird flu, the first confirmed case in the species, as authorities warn of a…
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“We have been working very closely with the federal government to highlight that we are willing and able to participate in a trial here in South Australia.”— Emily Bourke · full quotes → 4 sources
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Researchers find that DNA folding changes in brain cells offer new understanding of disease mechanisms beyond plaques and tangles.
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“Our results establish higher-order chromatin alterations as a component of the molecular pathology associated with the disease, which currently affects seven…”— Hansruedi Mathys, assistant professor of neurobiology at Pitt · full quotes → 3 sources
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Research on two fish species reveals their monoamine transporters respond to antidepressants at concentrations up to 10 times lower than…
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“Many of the drugs that target human brain chemistry, such as antidepressants, are still biologically active when they leave the body.”— Phys.org/Environmental Science & Technology study · full quotes → 3 sources
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OpenAI's AI agents cracked the decades-old Navier-Stokes blow-up problem, capping a summer of AI math breakthroughs that left…
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“mathematicians may be the canary in the coal mine for a lot of other professions”— Andrew Sutherland · full quotes → 7 sources
