A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordia...

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SpaceX: What can scientists learn from a Falcon 9 rocket hitting the Moon?

While the collision was an accident, it is a unique scientific gift for planetary geologists that could provide important data for future space missions.

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How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed

YouTube video by Be Smart

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The truth about blushing: why we do it, how we can resist it – and why it’s actually good for us

Humans are the only animals whose faces redden with embarrassment. Should we see that as an affliction, or as a blessing?

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What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?

New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago

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Scientist Constructs "Big Picture" of Mars Water from Rover Data

Rover data from more than 20 years ago has revealed clues to the existence of liquid water on ancient Mars. The NASA Spirit Rover carried a specialized instrument called a Mössbauer Spectrometer that ...

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German WWII shipwrecks resurface in Danube River

Record droughts have exposed over 200 boats scuttled near Serbia in 1944.

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New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet

Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet. Researchers were able to peek with the help of a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

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Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'

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Mobilis In Mobili

A 1930s effort to reach the Earth's northernmost point via antiquated submarine.

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I was a death row lawyer. Here’s why I now joke about capital punishment

In my standup, I’m not trivializing the death penalty. I’m getting people to stay engaged when the subject is uncomfortable

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The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

YouTube video by Practical Engineering

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The secret codewords that scammers hate

Deepfake scams might use your voice, but they don't know what's in your head. Five minutes of preparation could save your loved ones from falling for fraud.

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Social Media’s Last Taboo

It’s okay to be every kind of person online — except struggling.

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NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission - NASA Science

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have successfully freed up power on Voyager 2, extending how long the spacecraft can continue to do

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YouTuber Hank Green Never Let ChatGPT Write a Word, but His Audience Turned on Him Anyway. It’s a Warning For Founders

Green's ChatGPT snafu happened the same week LinkedIn rolled out a 'seems like AI slop' button. Founders should pay close attention to the turning tide on AI in content.

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The Star That Exploded Without Hydrogen

Twenty five years ago a star in the constellation Puppis blew itself apart and then vanished behind a curtain of its own soot. Astronomers knew only that the explosion contained no hydrogen at all, wh...

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Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion

A set of engineered safeguards could protect Earth's habitability for 9.1 quadrillion years, according to new research.

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The Seinfeld Chronicles

The Seinfeld Chronicles digital edition visually and sonically presents an entirely unnecessary data-driven exploration of every episode of Seinfeld.

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A Diver Found a $3 Million Gold Cross Hidden Under a Shipwreck. Then a Thief Replaced It With a Plastic Fake.

Tucker’s Cross remains at large.

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Refuse collectors help Italian woman recover binned €1m lottery ticket

Winner called waste management team after she realised stub showing she had hit the jackpot had been thrown away

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Antarctica’s Blood Falls teems with life from unexpected source

Despite being over 20 miles from the ocean, it's organisms are pretty salty.

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New crater likely to form after SpaceX rocket slams into the moon | CNN

A SpaceX rocket will collide with the moon Wednesday. While Earth is safe, studying the impact could protect future lunar astronauts.

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A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History

The average person isn't equipped to fact-check every video in their feed.

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‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality

Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again

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Capital, Punished

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Amazing High-Res Photo Shows a Butte Rising From Mars

Reminds me of Utah.

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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI | Quanta Magazine

AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understa...

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The Mysterious Case of the JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall

Why would a perfectly good plane suddenly go rogue? The answer was disturbing enough to ground 6,000 aircraft.

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