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Teen volunteers fight Borneo peatland fires in Superman costume
Indonesian peatland fires have burned over 200,000 hectares between January and July, producing thick smog that reached Malaysia and prompting the…
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NASA to launch Roman space telescope next week
The Roman space telescope, named for Nancy Grace Roman, will launch on the 30th aboard a SpaceX rocket and deploy about 1.5 million km from Earth…
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Delayed rains and low Nile levels deepen Sudan farming crisis
Delayed seasonal rains and sharply lower Nile flows are worsening an agricultural collapse in Sudan already driven by internal war and rising input…
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Interior cuts Colorado River water allocations to three states
The Department of the Interior signed 2027–2028 operating guidelines on Aug. 21 that reduce Colorado River allocations to Arizona, Nevada and…
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Starcloud raises $250 million at $2.3 billion valuation
Starcloud Inc. said it raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation in a Series A extension led by Manhattan West and joined by Nvidia and Cisco…
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Senescent cells accumulate and drive age-related tissue dysfunction
Senescent or "zombie" cells are living cells that stop dividing but remain metabolically active and alter tissue function. They show markers such as…
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Thunderstorms produce seismic signals that map shallow crust
A Penn State team built a seismic model to interpret thunder-induced 'thunderquake' signals and tested it using two years of data from a 4 kilometer…
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China solar expansion reduces bird biodiversity
A Science paper by researchers from China, Vietnam, and the United States analyzed over 2,000 Chinese counties and found that rapid expansion of…
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Communities shift to climate-based forestry
Harela and similar tree festivals highlight longstanding cultural respect for trees while raising practical questions about modern afforestation…
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Study finds Earth microbes could survive in lunar south pole
A new study compared laboratory survivability data for three bacteria and two fungi commonly found on crewed missions with lunar south pole maps and…
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Study finds cytotoxic CD4 T cells abundant in supercentenarians
Researchers analyzed blood from 28 Japanese participants and reported that rare cytotoxic CD4 T cells (CD4 CTLs) increase with extreme age, with…
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Astromech raises $20 million to build evolution early-warning ai
Astromech, co-founded by Ben Lamm and Harvard geneticist George Church, announced $20 million in new funding at a $3.8 billion valuation and plans to…
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Researchers propose leflunomide to prevent CAR T brain toxicity
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine published a perspective arguing that damaged mitochondria can create a self-sustaining…
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LandSpace lands Zhuque-3 booster in successful propulsive recovery
LandSpace on Tuesday recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 orbital-class rocket with a propulsive, four-leg touchdown after launching from…
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Google AI enables controllers to issue binding contrail altitude instructions
The UK launched a £5 million Operation Blue Skies trial that gives Google AI contrail forecasts to NATS controllers, who can issue binding altitude…
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LandSpace lands and recovers Zhuque-3 first stage
Chinese start-up LandSpace launched Zhuque-3 on August 19 from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone and successfully landed and…
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Sophie Adenot will perform first spacewalk by a French woman
Two astronauts will conduct a spacewalk at about 8:35 a.m. ET on Aug. 18, when NASA’s Anil Menon and ESA’s Sophie Adenot will exit the International…
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Chile scientists map Antarctic pearlwort genome
Chile-based researchers under the Polarix project produced the most complete genetic map to date of Colobanthus quitensis, one of only two flowering…
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Veolia sues nine companies over PFAS contamination
Veolia has filed a complaint in Delaware Superior Court against nine companies it says caused PFAS contamination in the Red Clay and White Clay…
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SpaceX launches Starlink and Globalstar satellites from Florida
SpaceX conducted multiple Falcon 9 missions from Cape Canaveral in early-to-mid August, including a Starlink launch at 11:58 a.m. Aug. 11 with a…
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Deaths and setbacks highlight gene therapy safety debate
Gene therapy shows life-changing promise but recent adverse cases have renewed safety debates. Science reported a six-year-old girl's death after an…
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China boosts wetland conservation to protect migratory birds
The article reports that China is strengthening wetland conservation and cross-border cooperation along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, where…
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China launches Long March 12 to deploy SatNet satellites
China successfully launched a Long March 12 Y8 from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan on August 16 around 04:10 UTC, placing a cluster of…
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Computer models estimate organ biological age
Scientists at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute used 25,712 high-resolution tissue images from 983…
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