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UK team plans lunar satellite to seek 21cm hydrogen signal
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are developing a suitcase-sized satellite called CosmoCube to orbit the moon and measure the redshifted…
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Pentagon introduces western civilization course in its schools
The Department of Defense Education Activity will offer a high school course, Western Civilization to 1500, this fall using a textbook from Encounter…
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UT Austin proposes streamlined undergraduate core curriculum
The University of Texas at Austin unveiled a proposal to replace its sprawling set of more than 600 core course options with a smaller, structured…
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German auto industry employment falls to lowest since 2005
Germany's automotive industry employed 691,500 people at the end of the first half of 2026, down 42,300 jobs or 5.8% year-on-year, Destatis reported…
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Kansas enacts statewide ban on student cell phones
Kansas has enacted HB 2299, a statewide law banning personal cell phones and similar devices for K‑12 students during the school day, signed by…
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U.S. retail sales fall as tax refund boost fades
U.S. retail sales unexpectedly declined 0.6% in July, the largest monthly drop since May 2025, reversing a revised 0.2% gain. The report attributes…
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Dangote refinery plans October IPO to broaden Nigerian ownership
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has submitted an application for a roughly $5 billion initial public offering to Nigeria's securities regulator as part of…
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Heatwave fuels wildfires across Europe
A new wave of record heat and exceptional dryness has driven multiple wildfires across France, central England and northern Greece, forcing…
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Thai schools tighten bag checks after deadly shooting
Students at a Bangkok primary school now undergo systematic bag and pocket checks after a deadly Aug 7 attack in which a 14-year-old killed his…
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Supertankers go dark to transit Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb
Supertankers are prolonging periods of going dark by turning off automatic tracking to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb…
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Pony.ai and Uber plan deployment of 2,000 robotaxis across Europe
Pony.ai and Uber announced an expanded strategic partnership to collaborate on deploying more than 2,000 Pony.ai Robotaxis across Europe, building on…
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Silver Lake in talks to acquire Workday
Silver Lake has held confidential talks in recent months to acquire Workday, a human-resources and financial management software company with a…
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Ancient warming thinned forests, reducing carbon storage
Researchers report that forests thinned dramatically during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum about 56 million years ago after massive volcanic…
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Apple hires Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs
Apple has appointed Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs, with his start date on August 31 and a reporting line to Jennifer Newstead…
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University of Michigan to cover first-semester grades
The University of Michigan's largest college is developing a pilot that will show first-semester grades as pass or no credit on external transcripts…
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Golar signs EPC deal for fourth FLNG vessel
Golar LNG has signed an engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore to build its fourth floating LNG…
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Pakistan names lunar rover Jinnah-1
The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission officially named Pakistan's first lunar rover Jinnah-1 after a nationwide contest that drew about…
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Hundreds of private colleges face closure
The USA TODAY Excerpt episode examined the growing wave of small private college closures after Sterling College in Vermont shut in May. A Huron…
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Antofagasta cuts 2026 copper forecast, earnings rise
Antofagasta's shares fell about 5% in early London trading after the company lowered its 2026 copper output forecast to 625,000–655,000 tonnes…
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Nigeria rolls out university UniPods to commercialize research
The federal ministry of education, working with UNDP and Tech4Dev, plans to deploy about 41 University Innovation Pods (UniPods) across Nigerian…
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German ministers clash over river engineering or restoration
Germany's heat wave has lowered water levels on the Rhine, Danube, Elbe and other rivers, revealing sandbanks and severely disrupting cargo shipping…
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Codelco expects lower copper output this year
Codelco expects to produce less copper this year, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Chilean state-owned miner grapples with…
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Spain sees total solar eclipse for first time in more than century
A total solar eclipse traveled from the Arctic region of northern Russia, across Greenland and near Iceland, then swept over northern Spain and the…
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AstroRad vest reduces astronaut radiation exposure
A team led by StemRad tested the AstroRad radiation-shielding vest on two instrumented female phantoms aboard NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission and…
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