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AtLAST, a telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe
- May 19, 2026
A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels. If you have ever seen the Milky Way in...
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How a shifting Nile landscape shaped the rise of the ancient empire of Kush in Sudan
- May 19, 2026
When I first became co-director of an archaeological project at Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan in 2018, I was amazed by the site's pyramids, temples a...
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Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon emissions isn't the engineering
- May 19, 2026
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the most energy-intensive and logistically complex sports on the planet. The events involve cars, of course, but also...
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Grokipedia selectively draws on more-right leaning news sources, says new study
- May 19, 2026
A large-scale analysis of Grokipedia, the world's first AI-written encyclopedia, has found that while many Grokipedia articles closely resemble their...
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Fast deliveries worsen conditions for e-commerce warehouse workers
- May 19, 2026
Holding off on that late-night online order of a book, blender or blue jeans could ease the strain on a warehouse worker. Consumers' around-the-clock,...
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Decoding the balance between life-and-death proteins
- May 19, 2026
In every organism, the regulation of cell populations is a constant process. This balance relies on a continuous interplay between "guardian" proteins...
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Less low cloud cover lets in more heat from the sun—and may lock in centuries of sea level rise
- May 19, 2026
According to NOAA, the global average sea level has risen 8–9 inches (21–24 centimeters) since 1880. The rate at which the sea level is rising is incr...
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A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop
- May 19, 2026
The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelli...
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Overlooked 'history force' may skew particle motion by up to 60% in shaken fluids
- May 19, 2026
Physicists at the University of Bayreuth have investigated the so-called Basset–Boussinesq history force acting on particles in fluids. Due to the dif...
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Climate catch-22: Cleaning up air pollution could speed key Atlantic current decline
- May 19, 2026
It may sound counterintuitive, but new research suggests that cleaning up air pollution could contribute to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Ove...
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Innovative Mars rovers 'swim' through the sand
- May 19, 2026
Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burro...
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New form of NAND flash data storage for deep space missions can survive 1 million rads
- May 19, 2026
As space missions travel farther from Earth, spacecraft must increasingly be able to process and store their own data. Soon, artificial intelligence (...