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Curiosity Mars Rover Freewheels Onward
Curiosity has two modes of operation. Catherine O'Connell-Cooper (UNB) explains the rover's planning on June 5th, 2026, for the Mars Science Laboratory Mission.
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Kenya secures $700,000 to help communities recover from climate disasters.
Kenya just secured a landmark Sh90M ($700K) in climate disaster funding—the first African nation to do so. It will identify Kenyans who suffered climate losses over the past decade.
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The surprising reason a cliff-stranded dog found his way home in Oregon.
A dog, not a cat, needed rescuing from a cliff face in Bend, Oregon this June. Maverick, a dark dog, blended perfectly into the cliff after his leash broke, stranding him overnight.
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Dungeons & Dragons helps students open up in therapy.
D&D isn't just a game anymore. Therapists are using the beloved tabletop RPG, popularized by "Stranger Things," to facilitate group therapy, tackling grief, trauma, and more through fantasy.
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Forget oil wells: Washington just turned captured CO2 into jet fuel.
Jet fuel from thin air? America's first commercial plant, AirPlant One, is now open in Washington, turning captured CO2 and renewable electricity into E-Jet fuel. This tech could revolutionize aviation.
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The mountain lion learned a valuable lesson about this family's pup.
A mountain lion snatched Denise Buchanan's small dog just steps from her porch. Wild animals pose a constant threat; always watch your pets, especially small ones.
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South Africa's pangolins find new protectors in unexpected courtrooms.
Eight years in prison: Two wildlife traffickers, Edward Phiri (46) and Tlhoriso Ralph (51), were sentenced in South Africa for smuggling a vulnerable Temminck’s pangolin.
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Miley Cyrus welcomes rescue tortoise.
Miley Cyrus, a longtime animal advocate, just adopted Wags & Walks' first-ever tortoise! The 20-year-old Sulcata, Teru, found his forever home with the Hannah Montana star in May 2026.
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Your tiny home now welcomes a full-sized bathtub and living room.
Forget tiny house compromises. The Berenstein Bear prioritizes comfort with an extra-wide design, offering a spacious living area, generous kitchen, and even a bathtub.
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Can a moon rock reveal Earth's earliest secrets?
A rare meteorite from Mali is unlocking 4.5-billion-year secrets of lunar catastrophes. Its unique composition helps astronomers understand how the Moon, Earth, and solar system formed.
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Lee Krasner's art arrives in Paris for her first French show.
Hot on the heels of the Met's Krasner-Pollock show, Olney Gleason and Gagosian unveil their own Lee Krasner exhibition in Paris this October. Get ready for a double dose of Krasner!
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A poet's words bloom from a life reclaimed.
Poet Christian Wiman, "dead on the table" multiple times, found suffering isn't life's only truth. His rare readings are difficult, but his poetry explores a profound "afterlife.
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From fractions to free throws: How basketball brightens math class.
Struggling with fractions? Danish students improved test scores by 15% after a workshop combining math lessons with basketball. Hoops might be the key to unlocking math for disengaged learners.
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Millions welcome a love story that rewrites what's possible on screen.
Heated Rivalry" exploded in popularity, thanks to its acclaimed male-on-male sex scenes between hockey rivals Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie). But there's more to this $12M hit.
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Ten years after Borneo's communities saved their river, here's how they did it.
Indigenous activists from 8 nations and Sarawak longhouse delegates converged in Borneo's Tanjung Tepalit in Oct 2015. Their mission: WISER, the World Indigenous Summit on Environment and Rivers.
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Today's Hope-Up: The Brains Are Getting Smarter, The Grid Is Getting Greener
From mapping fruit fly brains to solar outcompeting coal, this week's Hope-Up reveals how deeper understanding and ingenious solutions are driving progress across science and energy.
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Autism: A spectrum, not one condition.
Autism isn't one condition. Brain scans reveal two biologically distinct forms, identified by how brain regions communicate. This discovery could transform diagnosis.
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Deep-sea explorers discover new life thriving on whale graveyards.
Deep-sea researchers found the world's largest whale graveyard, uncovering dozens of carcasses and a thriving ecosystem of potentially new species feeding on the remains in the ocean's lightless depths.
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Quantum computing's quiet leap: Fewer qubits, vastly fewer errors.
IQM Quantum Computers just unveiled "barbell codes," a new error-correcting code slashing logical error rates by 1,000x and needing 8x fewer qubits than surface code.
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Where sidewalks cracked, flowers now bloom for LGBTQ+ youth.
Wisconsin's Pride Month blooms: Colorful flowers sprout from sidewalk cracks, symbolizing hope for 1.7 million LGBTQ+ youth often overlooked.
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Unlocking the hidden lives of whitebait helps protect future fish.
Think whitebait are tiny? UC researcher Dr. Ben Crichton studied kōkopu, a whitebait species that can live over 10 years! These nocturnal, territorial fish are just one of six species.
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For 800 million, a kidney disease drug rewrites the script.
Finerenone protects kidneys! New findings show it reduces major health risks for chronic kidney disease patients without diabetes.
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The Guggenheim welcomes World Cup fans for matches and a Zidane film.
Catch World Cup fever at the Guggenheim! This summer, the NYC museum livestreams select matches Friday afternoons at Frank Pub's, a pop-up at The Wright restaurant.
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A 745-mile whale graveyard fuels vibrant life on the deep ocean floor.
The ocean floor is a whale graveyard, but it's no biohazard. A "whale fall" creates a complex ecosystem, feeding and housing marine life, with bones fossilizing into ancient history.
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That 'missing link' in the universe? A cosmic signal just revealed a clue.
A strange LIGO signal could be the first evidence of a primordial black hole. This discovery might finally link these ancient objects to the enduring mystery of dark matter.
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Manas Park's rhinos, once gone, now welcome new calves.
Poaching decimated Manas National Park's 100 Indian rhinos by the 90s. Now, reintroduction efforts are bringing them back, with new calves born, but their future still needs active support.
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China's Z01 robot finds its balance with graceful Tai Chi.
A Chinese humanoid robot stunned an industrial exhibition, performing Tai Chi with fluid, human-like grace. Zoomlion's Z01 showcased advanced motion control and dynamic balance, captivating audiences.
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Colorado's busiest highway now welcomes more than cars.
I-25, Colorado's busiest highway, funnels 100,000 cars daily through Denver's exurbs. But this concrete artery disastrously truncates wildlife movements, leading to fatal collisions for deer, elk, and bears.
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Fruit fly brain rewrites behavior.
Unlock the fruit fly brain! A new connectome maps every neural connection, revealing how complex behaviors emerge from distributed circuits, not a single control.
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While you weren't looking, a quantum detector just brightened terahertz imaging by 20x.
Quantum metasurfaces just boosted terahertz detection 20x! This breakthrough brings practical THz tech significantly closer.
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Imagine a universe without dark energy: Mathematicians rewrite the cosmos.
Dark energy: a cosmic illusion? New math suggests the universe's accelerating expansion might not need it, challenging cosmology's core.
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Medical scans just got a powerful 3D upgrade.
Ultrasound interpretation is tough: 2D images become 3D in a technician's mind. MIT researchers just made it easier, developing a new approach that visualizes a 3D augmented-reality image of the scanned object.
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Iron and water: The backyard battery that just scaled up grid storage.
Decarbonizing steel could also store massive amounts of electricity. New research merges molten oxide electrolysis with iron-based flow batteries, offering a lithium-free energy storage solution.
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Could a familiar medication help protect women from breast cancer?
GLP-1s are exploding in popularity, with 1 in 8 Americans now using them. These drugs don't just aid weight loss; they also lower blood pressure, reduce heart disease risk, and improve liver health.
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Artists Reclaim Their Stories From Colonial-Era Photos
Zurich's new exhibition features twenty renowned artists surveying global photographic heritage. Discover how photography captures, and perhaps violates, its subjects.
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Celebrate these young students: Reading and math scores are on the rise.
9-year-olds defied pandemic school closures, showing progress in math and reading. But for 13-year-olds, the story is starkly different.
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The data center cooling solution quietly borrowed from nuclear science.
AI's boom demands massive data centers, projected to consume 9-17% of US electricity by 2030. A third of that power cools AI chips—a problem Ferveret aims to solve.
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America's grid just flipped: Solar outpaces coal for the first time.
Solar just surpassed coal as a US electricity source for the first time ever! In May, solar provided 12.8% of the nation's power, beating coal's 12.2% and marking a huge renewable energy milestone.
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A new model helps scientists hear the quiet hum of isotopes.
Uncover a material's atomic makeup? Researchers use spectroscopy, shining light on a substance and analyzing how it's absorbed, emitted, or scattered. Every atom reacts differently.
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Four centuries in silence, now a Finnish burial reveals its story.
Centuries-old burial in Finland reveals genetic links to Sámi populations and a remarkably mobile life.
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