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WorldPingThe two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight.
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WorldPingThe more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be.Columnist Michael Marshall explores how both can be true…
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WorldPingA breakthrough on the Navier-Stokes equations could be worth a $1 million prize, but a mathematician has serious questions about how OpenAI got there so fast.
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WorldPingEstuaries across the United States are facing the same trends of warming waters, algal growth and declining oxygen concentrations that threaten water quality and fish populations, regardless of geographic location, according to new research led by a…
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WorldPingPeople in Vancouver experienced an increase in police drug seizures during the first year of British Columbia's drug decriminalization pilot project, according to a Simon Fraser University study.
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WorldPingHydrogen-powered cars, power stations and portable chargers all rely on fuel cells. At the heart of each fuel cell is a catalyst that speeds up the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and water.
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WorldPingToward the end of their lives, low-mass stars undergo an abrupt dip in brightness, also known as the luminosity bump. While the endpoint of this bump is well understood, its onset has remained elusive.
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WorldPingUsing ALMA, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary, finding chaos that indicates they emerged from different backgrounds.
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WorldPingThe Danube gudgeon had been considered extinct in the Inn River for more than 100 years. Only a few years ago, the highly endangered species was rediscovered there.
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WorldPingNew observations of the composition of distant galaxies offer insights into the earliest phases of the universe and confirm decades of scientific understanding of the elements and particles produced by the Big Bang, according to a new study.
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WorldPingOn back-to-school night in 2005, I eagerly entered my youngest child's first-grade classroom. The walls were festooned with brightly colored responses to the prompt: "Draw something you remember."…
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WorldPingCornell researchers have used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown way cells control how proteins move inside them, a process essential for growth, communication and movement that is often disrupted in cancer.
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WorldPingUsing NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before.
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WorldPingViewing "thinspiration" content on TikTok increases self-objectification and worsens mood, while viewing body-positive content also increases self-objectification but is linked to a more positive mood, according to a new study published in PLOS One b…
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WorldPingMore than 3,000 scientific article titles across disciplines have made use of Beatles song titles and lyrics, according to a study published in PLOS One by Gabriel Budel of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and colleagues.
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WorldPingAnalysis of fossilized remains from dinosaurs known as troodontids reveals how one species' hip and leg bones may have developed over its lifespan, from embryo to adult—with potential implications for resolving longstanding taxonomic challenges.
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WorldPingResearchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors and adjust their actions when circumstances change—a cognitive ability that may help explain the animals' sophisticated proble…
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WorldPingUntil just over a decade ago, ring systems were thought to be exclusive to the giant planets of the solar system, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
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WorldPingA team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier than previously supposed.
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WorldPingScientists have identified a "climate teleconnection" between the Rocky Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, where warm spots left a kink in the jet stream that intensifed weather in the western U.S.
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WorldPingHunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.
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WorldPing"When you look up at the night sky, most of those stars have planets."…
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WorldPingThe human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process…
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WorldPingUnusually high temperatures over the mountainous region can kick-start a chain of events that ultimately leads to a severe deluge on the US West Coast, scientists say…
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WorldPingStrange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound.This marks the earliest known example of probable substance addiction…
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WorldPingResearchers have captured the moment two DNA molecules zip together, overcoming their identical negative charges to pair up and revealing a mechanism that has puzzled scientists for more than 20 years.
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WorldPingFor thousands of years, human urine has had real value. After our bodies absorb nutrients from our food, they excrete the rest—mainly via urine. An adult produces about 500 liters (132 gallons) a year.
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WorldPingResearchers combined 100-plus images of a single black hole into an AI-powered video to chart the activity of a mighty blazar's jet.
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WorldPingAmericans' confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci as a source of trustworthy public health information declined over the four months from April to August 2026 in a survey conducted after he appeared before the U.S.
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WorldPingThe Anthropocene became part of the zeitgeist after Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen launched the idea in 2000.
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WorldPingFinding a fossilized dinosaur egg is exceptionally rare, but finding a stash of more than 250 shell fragments in the chilly southern reaches of the planet is even more surprising.
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WorldPingCanada's last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.
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WorldPingThe term "benefit corporation" is becoming increasingly familiar as a label for companies with a hybrid commitment to the social good and profit-making. Interestingly, the term itself has taken on a hybrid meaning.
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WorldPingWith little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end.However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt for reality's undiscovered ingredients…
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WorldPingTwisteddoodles on spies through the ages — full report at New Scientist.
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WorldPingTom Gauld on an introduction to basic philosophical astronomy — full report at New Scientist.
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WorldPingWhy do people appear younger and better-looking in a mirror than in a photograph? Are humans the only animals that cry? If so, why?
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WorldPingReaders continue to share stories of how their own dogs respond to aircrafts…
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WorldPingA reader thinks outside the box on ways to mitigate against this slow-forming issue…
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WorldPingIn Australia, many Indigenous communities have connections and stories linked to the she-oak.
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WorldPingWe have all seen something suddenly break: a phone screen cracks, a plastic object snaps or a piece of glass shatters. To our eyes, the failure seems to happen all at once. But what if the most important part of the break happens long before the final snap?
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WorldPingA new comparative review, published in The Anatomical Record, examines factors that may lead to birth complications among humans and other mammals.
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WorldPingLast November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, including shipping.
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WorldPing"We can – and must – get on the right path."…
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WorldPingThe crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission – NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – visited Huntsville, Alabama, Sept.
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WorldPingA new study looks at "consciousness steering" in AI, but could this technology actually achieve this level of self-awareness in the first place?
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Live Science
WorldPingAnthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Live Science
WorldPingUnited States Space Command just held its first-ever "Apollo Maneuvers" exercise, which saw spacecraft maneuvering in orbit through simulated contested environments.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Space.com
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