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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist at Harvard, seen after she was released from U.S. federal custody in Boston in 2025.
Farmers in Gurez store their harvests underground to last the Himalayan winter. As the practice fades, local varieties and handed-down skills are disappearing too Hajra Begum rolls a potato in her hands, checking its skin for cuts, soft spots and signs of rot. After a day harvesting in her family's field in Chorwan, a remote mountain village in Gurez, Indian-administered Kashmir, she is sorting the crop for winter storage. Some of the potatoes will feed her family through the cold months; others...
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Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared so extraordinary the astrophotographer who captured it is fighting accusations it was created by AI. To create his spectacular image now viewed millions of times online Brendan Larsen spent two hours in September snapping hundreds of photographs of the night sky over Mount Taranaki in the North Island...
GeekSpin - 5 hours 6 min agoFor decades, archaeologists have excavated the sun-baked layers of Egypt's historic Nile Delta, assuming they had uncovered everything this legendary ancient site had to offer. But as it turns out, history was keeping a massive secret just beneath their boots. Thanks to high-tech satellite scans from space, scientists have mapped a colossal, 2,600-year-old religious complex […] Read the original article here: Satellite scans reveal 2,600-year-old complex buried in Egypt...
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GeekSpin - 5 hours 54 min agoWhen two black holes collide, they can merge into one enormous black hole. But what if one black hole could do the opposite and split into two? A new theoretical study suggests that this strange possibility isn’t completely forbidden by physics. Under extraordinarily specific conditions, a black hole spinning close to its maximum possible speed […] Read the original article here: Scientists find loophole that lets black holes split apart...
The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".
Conservationists estimate that there are fewer than 250 swift foxes left in the Lone Star State. The post Cat-sized foxes in Texas are in trouble. Big guard dogs could help. appeared first on Popular Science .
The olive ridley sea turtle nest is the third one ever documented on the nation's West Coast.
The USS 'Silversides' received its first dry dock overhaul in 50 years. The post WWII submarine returns to Michigan after extensive restoration appeared first on Popular Science .
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, burning up in the process Nasa's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has spent two decades studying the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, burning up in the process. The satellite, which was designed to operate with its three telescopes for just two years, is no longer able to steer or observe, and its re-entry is uncontrolled. Continue...
The language was already endangered when Black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner documented its speakers in 1935. The post Oldest recordings of Louisiana Creole discovered in Indiana archive appeared first on Popular Science .
Preparing the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in 2004. The 1.5-ton spacecraft is about the size of a pickup truck.
Retraction Watch - 11 hours 42 min agoBioengineered retracted 119 papers in October amid investigations into suspected paper mill activity and other integrity-related concerns at the Taylor & Francis journal. Clarivate delisted Bioengineered from its Web of Science platform in May 2025, after placing it on hold a year earlier. In July 2025, the publisher suspended new submissions to the journal, which … Continue reading Bioengineered retracts 119 more papers as investigation continues...
The issue is part of wider concerns the government is not focused enough on the environment.
GeekSpin - 12 hours 43 min agoA gene treatment called optogenetic therapy has partly restored sight in legally blind patients, and a new study shows that the treatment appears to be safe, according to an international team of researchers. The approach uses light to switch nerve cells on and off, the same technique that won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology […] Read the original article here: Gene therapy partially restores sight in blind patients...
Archaeologists in Romania say a recently opened Roman sarcophagus appears to hold the traces of a child's short life and the care taken to honor it. Inside the 1,800-year-old stone coffin, found near the ancient city of Tomis (modern-day Constanta) on the Black Sea coast and opened Oct. 27,...
Scientists just pulled a "back from the dead" moment with a tiny, toxic primate in Indonesia. The Bangka slow loris, last noted in scientific literature in 1937 and flagged by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as possibly extinct in 2015, is very much alive, per a new study...
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One of NASA's workhorse telescopes is about to be cremated. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to hunt powerful gamma-ray bursts, is expected to fall back to Earth early Wednesday, with most of its 1.5 tons burning up in the atmosphere, NASA says. A few dense components,...
A New Mexico judge's fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.
A New Mexico judge's fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.
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