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SpaceX attempts first orbital Starship launch to deploy Starlink
SpaceX plans a Starship launch at 7:15 a.m. ET during a 75-minute window that will first fly suborbital and then attempt a more powerful second burn…
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UN warns radio interference could undermine weather and climate observations
The International Telecommunications Union and the World Meteorological Organization warned at a Geneva expert seminar that increasing use of radio…
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European seas record highest summer surface temperatures
Satellite and buoy records show European sea-surface temperatures reached their highest summer levels since 1982, averaging 21.6 C between June and…
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Earth microbes survive simulated Enceladus ocean
Scientists led by William Orsi recreated a miniature version of Enceladus's ocean by mixing water, salts, carbonates and powdered rock to match its…
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SpaceX aims Starship for first orbital flight
SpaceX plans to launch Starship Flight 14 on Sept. 28 within a 75-minute window starting at 8:15 a.m. EDT, aiming to reach orbit for the first time…
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UN leaders adopt declaration on sea level rise
The UN General Assembly approved the UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise by consensus, creating the first UN-wide political framework focused on legal…
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Google launches prototype satellite to test TPUs in orbit
Google is preparing to launch a prototype satellite under Project Suncatcher to test whether its Tensor Processing Units can operate in low Earth…
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Light speeds antibody detection of colorectal cancer biomarker
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University used laser irradiation in a light-induced acceleration system (LAC-SYS) to speed antibody-antigen…
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Bennu sample suggests formation near solar system ice line
Researchers at ETH Zurich measured iron, titanium and chromium isotopes in about half a gram of material from asteroid Bennu returned by the…
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Stroke promotes glioma growth by altering astrocyte calcium signaling
A study published in Nature Cancer reports that ischemic stroke can actively reshape the brain to favor glioma progression. In mouse models and in…
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UVM wins NSF grant to build connectomics observatory
The University of Vermont received a $19 million National Science Foundation grant to create the National Connectomics and Ultrastructure Volume…
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Singapore team builds lutetium atomic clock
A team at the National University of Singapore developed an atomic clock using the element lutetium and says it is the world’s most stable and…
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China's FAST telescope marks 10 years of operation
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) marked its 10th anniversary since inauguration on September 25, 2016, and the…
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Anthropic's AI discovers CRISPR-like system in bacterial DNA
Anthropic says its AI model Claude autonomously identified a CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacterial DNA after 21 hours scanning a large DNA sequence…
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Anthropic says AI found new molecular machine in virus DNA
Anthropic reported that its AI model Claude identified an unusual protein pattern, named ART, in bacteriophage DNA adjacent to a CRISPR-like…
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NASA advances PRIMA far-infrared telescope to phase B
NASA has advanced the PRIMA (Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) to Phase B, moving preliminary design and technology development forward…
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Study finds 12.5 trillion tons of polar ice lost
An international team assembled the longest satellite record of ice-sheet mass balance, extending Greenland data to 1972 and Antarctica to 1979 and…
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Governments fall short of 30% biodiversity protection by 2030
Research led by Campaign for Nature finds governments are on course to miss the Kunming-Montreal '30 by 30' target to protect 30% of land and seas by…
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New amoeba replicates at record high temperatures
Researchers reported a newly discovered amoeba, Incendiamoeba cascadensis, from Lassen Volcanic National Park that grows and divides at temperatures…
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Hylenr completes phase 1 validation study of lattice fusion
Hylenr announced completion of Phase 1 of an independent validation study of its lattice confinement fusion (LCF) BRT-NiUCS-2 reactor at Texas A&M…
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OpenAI and mathematicians clash over Navier‑Stokes solution
OpenAI said its models solved the Navier‑Stokes problem, a Clay Millennium Prize question, but a public dispute erupted after NYU mathematician…
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Global leaders begin talks on climate, AI and renewables
Global leaders opened a week of talks during the United Nations General Assembly and New York Climate Week as new reports raised alarm and offered a…
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Astronomers confirm youngest known exoplanet Elias 2-24 b
Researchers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, a giant exoplanet less than one million years old, using archived Keck Observatory images compared with ALMA…
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Communities block data center projects in the United States
Community and advocacy campaigns disrupted roughly 45 proposed data center developments valued at about $68 billion in the second quarter of 2026…
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