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Chicken wings in zero gravity: China tests first-ever oven aboard space station

Twenty-eight minutes. That's all it took for Chinese astronauts aboard their space station to grill chicken wings using a revolutionary new oven, dramatically outpacing NASA's 2020 cookie-baking experiment that required over two hours for a single treat. Crew members from the Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21 missions recently fired up their space barbecue, preparing New Orleans-style chicken wings and black pepper...

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Google’s Project Suncatcher aims to build orbital AI data centers powered by sunlight

Google's Project Suncatcher plans to launch orbital data centers by 2027 using satellites equipped with AI chips powered by continuous sunlight, potentially generating eight times more energy than Earth-based solar panels. This...

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Light bends matter: Scientists find laser-triggered shifts in Janus 2D semiconductors

Rice University scientists discovered that laser light can physically push atoms in ultra-thin Janus semiconductors, causing measurable shifts in their crystal structure through a phenomenon called optostriction. This...

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Scientists observed a black hole flare that 'shined with the light of 10 trillion suns'

Scientists recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare ever observed, located 10 billion light years away from a black hole 500 million times more massive than our sun. The flare likely occurred when the black hole's...

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Elon Musk Announces Proposal to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

Elon Musk proposed using AI-controlled satellites to combat climate change by precisely adjusting how much sunlight reaches Earth, expanding beyond his current 9,000 Starlink satellites. Scientists consider solar geoengineering...

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Are We Trashing Earth’s Loneliest Spot?

Point Nemo, Earth's most remote ocean location over 1,600 miles from any land, has become a designated "space graveyard" where over 260 spacecraft have intentionally crashed since 1971. The massive International Space Station...

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Regulators have promised Australian residents three hours of free solar power a day

Australia's massive solar installations create daily electricity surpluses, leading to the "Solar Sharer" program launching July 2026. Households with smart meters get three hours of free daily electricity during peak solar...

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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black

Scientists discovered over 111,000 spiders living together in the world's largest spiderweb inside Albania's Sulfur Cave, marking the first time these two common species have shown colonial behavior. The spiders have genetically...

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'As if a shudder ran from its brain to its body': The neuroscientists that learned to control memories in rodents

Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez and his lab partner developed a groundbreaking technique to artificially control memories in rodents by using laser light to activate specific brain cells. When they optogenetically stimulated...

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Chimps Can Change Their Minds. Why Can’t We?

Scientists found chimpanzees can rationally evaluate evidence about hidden food, changing their initial choices when presented with stronger information, demonstrating flexible thinking beyond humans.

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“Tiny T. Rex” Makes Big Waves in Paleontology Community

Paleontologists have settled a long-standing debate about small T. rex-like fossils found in Montana's Hell Creek Formation, including the famous "dueling dinosaurs" specimen from 2006. By analyzing bone growth rings and computer...

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Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

Tesla operates a secret lab in Palo Alto where dozens of workers wear camera-equipped helmets and 40-pound backpacks to record every human movement, from wiping tables to AI-generated tasks like twerking and crawling. These "data...

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Scientists Finally Captured A Groundbreaking Image Of Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

Scientists successfully captured the first-ever image of two supermassive black holes orbiting each other in the quasar OJ 287, located 5 billion light-years away. This groundbreaking visual confirmation of a binary black hole...

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This celestial object orbiting Earth may have a surprising origin

Comet 2025 PN7, discovered in August, may actually be debris from the lost 1964 Soviet Zond 1 spacecraft that failed while traveling to Venus.

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Flexible hydrogel heart patch cuts tissue damage by 50% and boosts recovery rates

MIT engineers developed a flexible hydrogel patch that delivers three drugs in timed phases to damaged heart tissue. Testing in rats showed 50% less tissue damage and 33% higher survival rates.

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See the largest, most detailed radio image of the Milky Way yet

Astronomers used seven years of Australian telescope data to create the largest radio image of the Milky Way, spanning 60,000 light-years and helping discover an estimated 1,700 undiscovered supernova remnants.

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First-ever single top quark production with W and Z bosons observed by scientists

CERN scientists detected an extremely rare particle collision that happens once in every trillion proton impacts, producing a single top quark with W and Z bosons. This discovery could reveal new physics beyond current theories.

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Cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone chip coming in 2026, per new report

Apple is developing its most affordable MacBook ever, priced under $1,000 and powered by an iPhone A-series processor rather than the M-series chips used in current Mac laptops. The machine, code-named J700, is currently being...

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Tesla may become first car ever hit by meteorite after mysterious object falls from sky

A Tesla's windscreen partially melted and glass exploded inside the cabin when something hot and mysterious struck the vehicle during a nighttime drive on a South Australian highway. The car kept driving in self-driving mode,...

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Scientists discover the nutrient that supercharges cellular energy

Researchers found that leucine, an amino acid in meat and dairy, boosts cellular energy by protecting mitochondrial proteins. Disrupted leucine metabolism affects fertility and cancer survival, revealing new treatment targets.

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What Happens to Physics When A.I. Makes a Demo Video?

OpenAI's Sora AI video generator was tested to create a physics demonstration showing two balls of different mass being dropped to compare their falling speeds. While the AI impressed with its fast video generation capabilities,...

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Scientists teach bacteria the octopus’s secret to camouflage

Scientists at UC San Diego successfully engineered bacteria to mass-produce xanthommatin, the natural pigment that gives octopuses and squids their remarkable color-changing camouflage abilities. By linking bacterial survival to...

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Greek sanctuary and unique Bronze Age artifacts found in famous Italian cave

Archaeologists found a Greek sanctuary (4th-1st centuries BCE) and Europe's only underground Bronze Age pile dwelling in Italy's Pertosa-Auletta caves, revealing 8,000 years of continuous human occupation.

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Ancient viruses hidden inside bacteria could help defeat modern infections

Scientists at Penn State discovered that ancient, dormant viruses embedded in bacterial DNA for millions of years actually help protect bacteria from new viral infections by producing specialized proteins that block viruses from...

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