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Sodium may be the underdog of battery chemistry, but new research shows it could soon punch far above its weight. As global demand for energy storage from electric vehicles to resilient power grids explodes, scientists are pushing hard to develop alt...
As the Trump administration deploys Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Charlotte, North Carolina, residents are fighting back. Over the past few days, ICE has made over 250 arrests in the area, leading to an estimated 56,000 student ...
Light's Magnetic Secret Revealed Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday Effect, overturning a 180-year belief that only light's electric field was invol...
NASA Captures Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet On Wednesday, NASA released detailed photographs of the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas as it made a brief pass through our solar system. Discovered over the summer, 3I/Atlas is only the third confi...
Meta is proud to build cutting-edge, wearable technology that empowers people with disabilities to perform daily tasks with more independence. Their AI glasses – Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta Vanguard, and Meta Ray-Ban Display – allow for hands-free supp...
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Millions of people around the world lack access to clean potable water, a problem that is only getting worse with rising temperatures and a growing population. Yet, the atmosphere contains six times more water than all the fresh water in rivers, acco...
The performance of "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" took place a few days before the band played its first show in Australia in a decade :focal(3875x2583:3876x2584)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/...
Quantum Computers Simulate Complex Physics Scientists study matter under extreme conditions to uncover fundamental behaviors. The Standard Model of particle physics contains the equations needed to describe these phenomena, but in many real situa...
Scientists Gene-Edit Fungus into Protein-Packed, Meat-Like Food Using 70% Less Land Researchers in China have unveiled a modified fungus that not only tastes like meat but also cuts production environmental impact by 61%. The Jiangnan University...
Today, NASA released the most detailed images yet of 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object observed in our solar system. During a press conference on November 19, NASA confirmed the icy rock poses no danger to Earth, and contrary to certain c...
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An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging :focal(750x500:751x501)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/68/0a/680aee75-c50d-4910...
New Tactile Patch Turns Flat Screens into Lifelike Textures Northwestern University engineers have developed the first haptic device that matches human resolution in touch. The ultra-thin wearable, called VoxeLite, recreates tactile sensations wi...
Dog Mom Reads Fake Letter Loaded with Pup's Favorite Words For pet parents, there are dozens of universally adorable situations. When your cat cozies up in your lap and starts "making biscuits," you will likely react with an almost-involuntary "a...
Meta has announced the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to their Segment Anything Collection. These advancements will help build the next generation of creative media tools, simplifying video editing and offering new ways to interact...
Robert Therrien's World of Everyday Wonder Emerges in a LA Retrospective When Robert Therrien passed away in 2019 at 71, he left behind a series of small note cards, each bearing a labeled line drawing. To those closest to him, they felt like leg...
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When it comes to mating, female mosquitoes call the shots, researchers report. A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life. With the stakes so high, it would make sense for these ins...
Google's New Gemini 3 Offers Versatile "Vibe-Coding" Responses Google has unveiled a major upgrade to its flagship multimodal model, Gemini 3. The new model boasts improved reasoning capabilities, more fluid multimodal functionality across voice,...
Anchorage-dependent cells require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to survive, grow, and reproduce. In the biomedical industry and others, culturing these cells is crucial, but current techniques used to separate them f...
From the Ryder Cup to self-driving cars, AI-ready networking is becoming a critical component of success across industries. As businesses move toward distributed, real-time AI applications, tomorrow's networks will need to parse even more massive vol...
Humans Sync Their Blinks and Brain Waves to a Song's Beat While you may not realize it, your physical responses to music, like nodding your head or tapping your foot, are conscious decisions that you can control. However, according to neuroscient...
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In mid-October, a mysterious object cracked the windshield of a packed Boeing 737 cruising at 36,000 feet above Utah, forcing the pilots into an emergency landing. While the object was likely a remnant of a weather balloon, the speculation that it wa...
Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming Takes Flight In a groundbreaking demonstration, the US Air Force and three major defense contractors have successfully linked an F-22 Raptor fighter jet with a GA-ASI MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft. This milestone event, ...
Brian Alpert's path was always destined for the aerospace industry, but his journey turned toward NASA's Johnson Space Center during his sophomore year in college. That was when Tricia Mack, who works in NASA's Transportation Integration Office withi...
The Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania On a quiet street in Chestnut Hill, you'll find a small grey-green home that, on first glance, might look quite ordinary. Keep looking, however, and you'll begin to notice unusual specificitie...
NASA is inviting media to attend the launch of the first crewed Moon mission under its Artemis campaign. The Artemis II test flight, targeted for early 2026, will send a crew of four astronauts - NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, an...
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As its whiskers flitter, the mouse's brain sparks with activity. A tiny implant records the electrical chatter and beams it to a nearby computer. Smaller than a grain of salt, the implant is powered by and transmits data with light. Unlike most impla...
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Perlmutter Supercomputer Simulates Quantum Chip at Unprecedented Scale More than 7,000 NVIDIA GPUs have been used to simulate a quantum microchip, pushing the limits of one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. This unprecedented full-scal...
NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Launch The NASA Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission, on the mobile launch platform at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a full moon in the backgr...
The Phillips Collection to Sell Major Works, Vatican Returns 62 Artifacts to Indigenous Peoples Controversial Sale at The Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection, an art museum in Washington, DC, plans to auction off major works by artis...
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Researchers at ChristianaCare's Gene Editing Institute have demonstrated that turning off the NRF2 gene with CRISPR technology can make lung cancer cells responsive to chemotherapy again. By blocking this gene, the treatment restores how tumors react...
The message engraved in an ancient goblet's intricate artwork may have a different meaning than experts first believed. After reexamining the renowned ˁAin Samiya cup, an international team of archaeologists argue the small, silver drinkware doesn't ...
Rodin's Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Comes to the US for the First Time Auguste Rodin, the renowned French sculptor, was deeply inspired by ancient Egyptian art. Over his lifetime, he amassed a collection of over 6,000 objects, including mo...
The A.I.-generated image hung in Wales' National Museum in Cardiff for a few hours before staffers and museumgoers noticed its presence By Ella Feldman - Daily Correspondent November 17, 2025 10:01 a.m. :focal(3847x2492:3848x2493)/https://tf-c...
Javier Téllez Wins $50,000 PAMM Pérez Prize The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has awarded its annual Pérez Prize to New York–based artist Javier Téllez. The award, which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000, was presented to the artist at ...
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Scientists uncover a massive hidden crater in China that rewrites Earth's recent history A recently uncovered and unusually intact impact crater is offering scientists new insights into how objects from space have struck Earth throughout its hist...
A surgeon in Florida has used a robot to remotely remove a simulated brain clot from a cadaver in Scotland, suggesting future stroke surgeries could be completed across vast distances. The transatlantic procedure was carried out by Ricardo Hanel, a ...
Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma wanted the jewel's location to be kept secret for 100 years after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1922. Their descendants now plan to display it at a museum. For decades, the 137-carat yellow diamond that belong...
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a microscope that captures signals across an intensity range fourteen times wider than conventional systems. The device records both forward and backward scattered light without using dyes, allowi...
Meta is now accepting applications for the 2026 Data Center Community Action Grants program. This initiative provides direct funding to schools, nonprofits, and community organizations working on projects that benefit the communities where Meta build...