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Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System
Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among Kids and Teens—and It’s Not the Same Disease Adults Get
Why Pickles Light Up When You Electrocute Them
Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs—and Not Just Once
Google Is Already Having Problems With Its Latest AI Model
Micron’s DRAM Revenue Shot Up 343% Compared to Last Year, Courtesy of RAM Shortage
Taxpayers Have Been Subsidizing Meta’s AI Data Centers: Report
1 in 8 Cancers Are Caused by Infections. The Biggest Culprit Isn’t HPV
Something Strange Happens When an Old Heart Is Transplanted Into a Young Body
This Pill Will Change Cancer Treatment Forever
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(From September 27, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Los Angeles Has a Flea Problem—and It’s Fueling Typhus Outbreaks
Your Body Heat Could Power the Next Generation of Wearables
The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They’re One of Astronomy’s Biggest Discoveries in Decades
New Technique Bypasses 1,024-Bit RSA Without Factoring It
More Than 1 Million Americans Are Taking Ozempic and Other GLP-1s Without an Approved Reason. Is That Actually a Problem?
These Scientists Are Charting a New Future for Organ Transplantation—and It Starts With Pigs
How Vulnerable Is the US if This Super El Niño Hits as Hard as Predicted?
Astronomers Finally Pick Up Radio Signals From a Planet Beyond Our Solar System
Alarming Study Finds New Evidence That the Sun Can Produce Catastrophic ‘Superflares’
Dengue Is Surging in Florida—and It’s Claimed Its First Life in Nearly 100 Years
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(From September 6, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
OpenAI Claims We’re in the ‘AGI Era’ With Release of GPT-6 Astra
Ozempic and Other GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections—Including TB
Scientists Say a Key Trigger for Alzheimer’s Damage Isn’t Even in the Brain
Physicists Detected a Signal That Defies Explanation. It Could Be Dark Matter—or Something Stranger
Raindrops Carry Tiny Electrical Charges That Eat Through Your Car’s Fresh Paint Job
Dyson’s Smart Toothbrush Uses a Camera to Floss Your Teeth
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From August 30, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Remember the Earthquake That Hit New York in 2024? Scientists Finally Found the Source
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting a Major Upgrade. But What Would Actually Surprise Physicists?
NASA Is Launching a $4 Billion Space Telescope on Sunday. Here’s Why You Should Care
SpaceX’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Spaceport Could Be an Environmental Disaster
Congresswoman Wants to Add Images to Legislation to Keep Pace With the Post-Literate Future
The HPV Vaccine Isn’t Just Preventing Cervical Cancer, New Research Reveals
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Best Evidence for Dark Matter Yet
Scientists Develop Microbes That Make Vanilla Cookies Out of Plastic Bottles
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From August 23, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
These Transistors Engineered With Bacteria Are Literally Alive, if a Little Slow
Moderna and Merck’s mRNA Melanoma Vaccine Looks Like a Game Changer
Don’t Call This Flying Camera a Drone Unless You Want It to Get Banned
People Are Rushing to Find Ways to Remove Claude’s AI Text Watermark
Scientists Uncover Worrying Link Between This Popular Erection Drug and Blindness
This Star Orbits So Close to Our Galaxy’s Black Hole That Spacetime Twists Around It
Heisenberg Said Empty Space Isn’t Really Empty. A Magnetic Star May Have Finally Proven Him Right
Data Centers Will Eat 12% of US Electricity by 2030. This Platinum Fuel Cell Fix May Help
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From August 16, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria Is Having a Killer Summer
Scientists Don’t Actually Know How Long Fungi Can Live. The Reasons Are Kind of Weird
Physicists Made 10,000 Particles Defy Newton’s Third Law for an Hour. Here’s How
Data Centers Will Eat 12% of US Electricity by 2030. This Platinum Fuel Cell Fix May Help
‘Super’ El Niño Could Push Earth’s Temperature 13 Years Ahead of the Current Warming Trend
Liver Injuries Are Up 400%—and Alcohol Isn’t the Main Reason Why
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From August 9, 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water?
This Super El Niño Could Trigger the Highest Sea Levels Ever Recorded on the California Coast
Meta Officially Ruled a ‘Public Nuisance,’ Judge Orders It to Pay $567 Million
Oh Cool, AI Is Inventing New Biological Viruses Now
This Startup Will Pay You $50 to Let AI Read Your Mind
Liquid Fluoride Can Stop Cavities Without Drilling, Major Trial Finds
SpaceX Agrees to Remove Temporary Gas Turbines at Colossus Data Center By 2027
Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in California City
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From August 2, 2026)
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Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected
A Daily GLP-1 Pill Could Curb Heavy Drinking
Researcher Faces Investigation for Concealing 6-Year-Old Girl’s Death in Gene-Editing Trial
Starship’s Heat Shield Looked Great After Flight 13, But Experts Spotted Something Troubling
This El Niño Is on Track to Become the Strongest on Record by a ‘Mind-Blowing Margin’
Viagra Could Be a Secret Weapon Against Cancer
There’s a National Blood Supply Crisis Happening Right Now
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From July 26 2026)
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Environmental Orgs Say Space-Based Data Centers Could Violate Federal Law
Things Are Getting Messier With the Explosive Diarrhea Parasite, as Officials Chase Down Multiple Outbreaks
What Happens if You Cut a Photon in Half? The Answer Is Trippy
Scientists Uncover Strange Effect Ozempic Might Have on Your Hair
Scientists Finally Found the Universe’s Missing ‘Ordinary’ Matter
China Wants to Slam a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid at Mach 26
This Hidden Pattern in the Sun Could Predict Solar Storms Years in Advance
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Its Biggest Upgrade Yet. What Comes Next Could Change Physics
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(From July 19 2026)
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The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is Officially Blowing Up
Mutant Rodents Are Developing Rat Poison Resistance
New York Issues the Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium on New Large Data Centers
Humanoid Robots Just Performed Surgery Using Standard Medical Tools
These Look Like Ordinary X-Rays. They’re Not
The Memory Shortage Is So Bad That Smartphone Shipments Hit a Record Low
Economists Are Comparing the AI Boom to the Industrial Revolution—Not in a Good Way
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(From July 12 2026)
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Scientists Say Some Black Holes Are Born From Other Black Holes
Space Force Has a New Weapon to Blind Enemy Satellites
Leap Seconds Were a Headache. Now Timekeepers Are Considering a Leap Hour
Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Hits Grim New Milestone as Cases Top 1,000
China Just Caught a Rocket Booster for the First Time, Taking Aim at SpaceX
Trees May Not Slow Climate Change as Much as Scientists Thought
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(From July 5 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Meta Goes the Way of xAI, Considers Renting Computing Power as Own Model Flails
Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center
Oh Great, a Parasite That Causes Explosive Diarrhea Is Spreading Right Now
Oracle’s Data Center Warning Is a Worst-Case Scenario for the Whole AI Boom
NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit
The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All
Holy Crap, We Were Way Off About How Many Insect Species Live on Earth
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From June 28 2026)
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The Race to Build the Next Generation of Weight Loss Pills Is Heating Up
Data Centers Were the Biggest Losers of the Week
IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-1-Nanometer Chip Technology
Strange Side Effect Found Among Ozempic Users—and It Has to Do With Smell and Taste
Say Hello to the New Species of Fly Officially Approved to Clean Human Wounds
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From June 21 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Norway Says AI Ain’t for Education
Scientists Spent 13 Years Bouncing Radar Off Europa. Here’s What They Found
Russia Might Be Ready to Give Up on Its Leaky ISS Module
Just 16% of Americans Believe AI Will Positively Impact Society, Pew Poll Finds
Scientists Find Intriguing Link Between Ozempic and Violent Behavior
How Serious Is the Universe’s Expansion Problem?
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This is the Lockheed L1011 Jumbo jet with a Pegasus solid rocket motor attached. This is the last scheduled mission for Pegasus. They have used these rockets since the 1990s.
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(From June 14 2026)
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SpaceX May Not Be Forced Into Your Pension Fund After All
ISS Astronauts Told to Shelter in Place as Air Leak Saga Continues
Scientists May Have Found a Way to Detect a Third Type of Magnetism
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Is Ready for Its Biggest Test Yet
The Ocean Is Earth’s Largest Wireless Dead Zone. This Antenna Could Change That
Can Our Model of the Cosmos Work Without Dark Energy? New Research Says It Can
‘Gold Standard’ for Mental Health Diagnosis May Leave Patients Miscategorized, Study Finds
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(From May 31 2026)
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The Ham Radio: Where Did 750,000 Operators Go?
There’s a Hidden Signal in the Sun, Study Suggests
‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First
Can Ozempic Treat Alcoholism? Here’s What You Should Know
‘Catastrophic Governance Structure’ and Murky Financials Complicate SpaceX IPO
Scientists Identify Potential New Source of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs—and It’s Not What You Think
Where 8K TVs Flopped, Samsung Hopes 6K Monitors Will Push Screens Forward
Ozempic Is Finally Turning the Tide Against Obesity, New Data Shows
China Launched Artificial Embryos to Orbit to Find Out If We Can Have Space Babies
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From May 24 2026)
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SpaceX IPO: Nice Try Though
Ridiculously Distant Galaxies Found by JWST Have Now Been Proven To Be Something Else
That Dreaded Air Leak on the ISS’s Russian Segment Is Back
Scientists Identify Atomic Trick That Keeps Gold Shiny
Delta CEO Details Why He Thinks Amazon Leo Beats Starlink
The Scandal Over a Supposedly AI-Written, Award-Winning Short Story Is Troubling. Or Just Mean?
Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Most People Are Right-Handed
The Satellite Industry Boom Is Driving an ‘Untested Geoengineering Experiment,’ Scientists Warn
New Quantum Processing Technology Points to Life After the Transistor, Maybe
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From May 17 2026)
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Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech
Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers
No Pill Currently Prevents Covid-19. This One Just Might
Earth Is Zipping Through a Giant Interstellar Cloud. Here’s How We Know
One of the Largest Physics Surveys Ever Finds No One Agrees on Anything
Georgia Data Center Secretly Guzzled 30 Million Gallons of Water Before Paying a Dime
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From May 10 2026)
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Tesla Recalls Cybertrucks Over Concerns Their Wheels Could Come Off
Cranks Are Already Peddling Ivermectin for Hantavirus
Watch NASA’s Curiosity Rover Struggle to Break Loose From a Rock on Mars
Energizer’s New Coin Batteries Prevent Fatal Burning If Kids Swallow Them
What if Dark Matter Doesn’t Actually Exist?
More Than a Third of All New Podcasts Are AI-Generated
What if Dark Matter Doesn’t Actually Exist?
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From May 3 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Ozempic Breath Is on the Rise—and So Is This Unlikely Winner
NASA’s Lithium-Fed Nuclear Thruster Flares to Life in First of Its Kind Test
Scientists Exposed Flies to Crushing Hypergravity. The Results Were Unexpected
May to Bring Early Summer to the West While the East Freezes
Weird Quantum Gadget Spits Out Chaotic ‘Sound Particles’
Elon Musk Will Earn a Company Bonus if He Drops a Million Colonists on Mars
The Anti-Data Center Movement Notches a Huge Victory in Data Center Alley
Astronomer Finds a Shortcut to Mars by Following an Asteroid’s Journey Through Space
Light-Propelled ‘Metajets’ Could Enable 20-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri, Study Suggests
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From April 26 2026)
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Utah Startup Claims Its Lab-Grown Sperm Can Produce Embryos, in Potential Fertility Breakthrough
The Best GLP-1 Drug on the Market Is Even Better Than We Knew
Fruits and Vegetables Might Be Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Non-Smokers. Cool, Cool, Cool
Things Are Finally Looking Up for Intel and It Has CPUs to Thank for It
Physicist Bends Light With Gravity to Make New Mobile Sensing Device
Blue Origin Offers an Explanation for Its Embarrassing Satellite Mishap
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
Last Friday this picture of the Hubble Space Telescope was taken by another satellite that was 35 miles away at the time.
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(From April 19 2026)
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NASA Plans to Start a Fire on the Moon in First-of-Its-Kind Experiment
The Unexpected Reason Why Your Migraines Might Get Worse Depending on the Air
After 100 Years, Engineers Finally Discover Why Rubber Is So Tough
Iceland Just Got Its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 to Remind Everyone How Great Mythos Is
The Newest Alzheimer’s Drugs Might Be Worthless, Review Finds
Could This AI-Simulated Brain Lead to Human Mind-Uploading?
Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe
Scientists Are Using Lightning in a Bottle to Turn Methane Into Methanol
FCC Exempts Netgear from Foreign-Made Router Ban for Some Reason
Norway Man Cured of HIV With Brother’s Stem Cells
This Experimental Drug Could Be a Game Changer for Pancreatic Cancer
This Memory Chip Survives Temperatures Hotter Than Lava
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(From April 12 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Ozempic Shreds Bones? How a Small Study Turned Into a Big Health Myth
Gizmodo’s Favorite Photos From NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission
OpenAI: Hey, We Also Have a New Tool That Is So Scarily Powerful We Can’t Release It
In Medical First, a Single Therapy Knocked Out 3 Autoimmune Diseases at Once
Scientists Move Closer to Male Birth Control With No Hormones, No Snip
Anthropic’s New Model Is So Scarily Powerful It Won’t Be Released, Anthropic Says
Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral
SpaceX Starship V3 Engine Goes Up in Flames at Texas Site
Trump’s Congratulatory Call With the Artemis 2 Astronauts Was Painfully Awkward
Scientists Watch Brain’s Self-Cleaning Process During Sleep in Real Time
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From April 5 2026)
Some links you might want to check out for yourselves:
Behold These Breathtaking Views of Earth Captured by the Artemis 2 Astronauts
Rubin Observatory Spots Over 11,000 Asteroids in Record Haul
Data Centers Create Heat Islands Stretching 6 Miles, Study Finds
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
China Is Trying to Grow New Forests in This Notorious Mega-Desert. It’s Working
RAM Prices Are Threatening the Viability of the Raspberry Pi and Single-Board Computing
LLMs Will Protect Each Other if Threatened, Study Finds
This $400 (Not) AI Keychain Is Pointless, Extravagant, and Weirdly Lovable
America’s Latest Unfounded Health Panic: ‘Vaccinated’ Blood Donations
A Cosmic ‘Dead Zone’ for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests
Vaping Comes With a Cancer Risk, Review Finds
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(From March 29 2026)
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Physicists Stretch, Blur, and Reverse Time’s Arrow in Wild Quantum Engine
Palantir CEO Says Only the Neurodivergent Will Survive the AI Takeover
Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point
April Set to Unleash Some Wild Weather Across Parts of the US, Meteorologists Warn
Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online
JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons
New Covid-19 Variant BA.3.2 Is Spreading and May ‘Evade Immunity,’ CDC Warns
Finally, Some Good News in the Fight Against Lyme Disease
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From March 22 2026)
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Quantum Computers Will Tap Out Before Breaking Encryption, Theory Claims
Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence
Physicists Say They’ve Cracked the Mystery of Volcanic Lightning
Grid Down? Scientists Say Your EV Could Provide the Needed Backup Power
Scientists Built Tiny, Portable Atomic Clocks—and Naturally, They’re Headed for Drones
Python Blood Could Kickstart the Next Big Thing in Weight Loss
Think the RAM Crisis Is Bad Now? It Just Keeps Getting Worse
SpaceX Fires Up Its Biggest, Baddest Rocket Yet: Starship V3
Peter Thiel’s ‘Steroid Olympics’ Startup Wants to Sell You the Sketchy Peptides
The US Grossly Undercounted Covid Deaths Early On, Updated Toll Shows
Quitting Ozempic Could Hit Your Heart Hard, Study Finds
This May Be the World’s First Quantum Battery
New NASA Chief Aiming for Moon Landings Every Month in 2027
CERN Nails Down Elusive Heavy Proton Cousin After Detector Upgrade
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(From March 15 2026)
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Woman Gets Infested by Maggots, Sneezes Them Out
Musk and Bezos Moon Landers Could Leave Artemis Astronauts Stranded, NASA Watchdog Warns
A Daily Multivitamin Might Actually Slow Down Your Biological Clock, Study Finds
Startup Emerges From Stealth With Bold Plan to Beam Solar Power to Satellites
Earth’s Spin Is Slowing at a Pace Not Seen in Millions of Years—and You Can Guess Why
New Research on Muscle Loss Suggests Humans Will Really Suffer on Mars
Our Sun Was Born in a Hellish Part of the Milky Way. New Research Explains How It Escaped
Rocket Companies Win as Feds Retreat on Orbital Debris Crackdown
America’s Smoking Habit Just Hit a Wild Milestone That Once Seemed Impossible
Should You Be Taking Peptides?
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(From March 8 2026)
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US Data Centers Could Require as Much Water as New York City by 2030, Study Shows
The Curious Case of the Block ‘AI Layoffs’
A Brain-Invading Worm Spread By Rats and Snails Has Reached California
Scientists Find a Built-In Weapon Against Peanut Allergies: Human Spit
xAI Exec Says Have Grok Check Your Taxes. Here’s How That Could Go Very Wrong
Study Finds Surprising Trend Among Ozempic Users Taking Fewer Doses Than Usual
Scientists Claim They’ve Finally Made the Elusive ‘Hexagonal’ Diamond
OpenAI, in Desperate Need of a Win, Launches GPT-5.4
Medical Journal Admits 138 of Its Case Reports Were Entirely Made Up
Study on Alt-Med Breast Cancer Treatments Finds a Grim Side Effect: Death
ChatGPT Health Underestimates Medical Emergencies, Study Finds
Google’s Chatbot Told Man to Give It an Android Body Before Encouraging Suicide, Lawsuit Alleges
‘Musclezempic’ Could Be the Future of Weight Loss
Did Life Hitch a Ride to Earth? Scientists Smashed the Living Crap Out of Microbes to Find Out
The Stupidest Glitch Imaginable Killed a $72 Million Lunar Mission in a Single Day
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(From March 1 2026)
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Wild Study Proposes Possible Link Between Solar Flares and Earthquakes
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
NASA Announces Major Revamp of Its Artemis Moon Program
The Donut Lab Solid State Battery Claims Are Crazy. I Brought Receipts
A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages
Trump Says US Is Cutting Off Anthropic for Refusing to Drop AI Safeguards
Sam Altman Insists He Also Has Principles as Anthropic’s Pentagon Stand Off Continues
Scientists Injected Stem Cells Into Fetuses to Treat a Birth Defect. Here’s What Happened
The Pentagon Wants X-Ray Vision to Spot Hidden Threats From Over Half a Mile Away
There’s a Wild Reason Scotch Tape Screeches—and It Has to Do With the Speed of Sound
The Most Elusive Color in Chemistry Might Surprise You
Neanderthal Men and Human Women Were Most Likely to Hook Up, Study Finds
Same Poop, Different Results: At-Home Gut Health Tests Are Wildly Inconsistent, Study Finds
Trees Fire Off Ultraviolet Sparkles During Thunderstorms, Scientists Confirm
After a Near-Perfect Test, NASA’s Artemis 2 Rocket Is Rolling Back to the Garage
Flat Molecules Aren’t Actually Flat. Blame Quantum Physics
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(From February 22 2026)
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A Simple Blood Test Could Eventually Tell You When Alzheimer’s Is Coming
It’s Not Just Your Screens: Why So Many People Suddenly Need Glasses
This Galaxy Is 99% Dark Matter—and Basically Invisible
Could Water Be the Future of Space Propulsion? This Startup Thinks So
Giant X-Rays Deliver the Sharpest View Yet of Fusion Plasma Gone Haywire
AI Companies Bought Out All of Western Digital’s Hard Drives for 2026 Already
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(From February 15 2026)
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Moderna Has a Promising New Flu mRNA Vaccine. Trump’s FDA Wants Nothing to Do With It
Your Daily Coffee Fix Could Be a Secret Weapon Against Dementia, Study Finds
America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next
A Sexually Transmitted Fungus Is Making Itself Cozy in the US
Largest Dictionary of English Slang Is Now Free Online to Help You Talk Like a Zoomer
Scientists Say We Might Have 33 Senses. Here’s the Breakdown
How Many Times Do You Fart a Day? ‘Smart Underwear’ Says It’s Way More Than You Think
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From February 8, 2026)
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Elon Musk Is Convinced He Can Turn Low-Earth Orbit Into a Gigantic Data Center
Space Data Centers, Musk’s Latest Scam
Sorry, 8K TVs Have Flopped
That Soothing Sleep Noise Might Be Sabotaging Your Dreams
Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory
Measles Outbreak in South Carolina Linked to Brain Swelling in Kids
An $88 Million Satellite Died Early—and Still Blew the Lid Off Industry Emissions
A Possible Lunar Impact in 2032 Could Spark Days of Meteor Showers on Earth
New Mexico Newborn Dies After Mother Drank Raw Milk, Prompting Fresh Warnings
Pfizer’s Experimental Weight Loss Drug Shows Promise as a Once-a-Month Shot
We’re Nowhere Near Ready to Make Babies in Space, Experts Warn
CDC Refuses to Take Blame for Measles Spiraling out of Control
Is Lead Exposure Really Declining? A Century of Hair Holds the Answer
The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From February 1, 2026)
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Could Poop Pills Be a Secret Weapon Against Cancer?
Kids Are Overdosing on GLP-1 Drugs, and It Can Get Dangerous Fast
Winklevoss Twins Shut Down NFT Marketplace in Another Sign Crypto Art Is Dead
A Bizarre Link Between Colorblindness and Bladder Cancer Might Actually Make Total Sense
AI Sifts Through a Mountain of Hubble Data, Uncovers Hundreds of Cosmic Weirdos
US Pediatricians Give Middle Finger to RFK Jr., Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations
What If Cancer Holds the Key to New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease?
Researchers Have Mapped the Universe’s Dark Matter Like Never Before
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From January 25, 2026)
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This Lamp Visualizes the Perpetual Electromagnetic Storm in Which We Live
AI Agents Are Poised to Hit a Mathematical Wall, Study Finds
Professor Reports That OpenAI Deleted His Work, World Laughs in His Face
A Rare, Deadly Fungus Is Making People Sick in Tennessee
6 New Weight Loss Drugs That Could Dethrone Ozempic
You’d Be Surprised How Few Companies Are Behind Half the World’s CO2 Emissions
Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview
No, Earth Won’t Lose Gravity for 7 Seconds on August 12, NASA Says
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(From January 18, 2026)
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Uncovering the details on Donut Lab’s Solid State Battery
China’s Proposed Megaconstellations Would Flood Orbit With 200,000 Satellites
Finally, Some Good News in the Fight Against Cancer
Scientists Finally Figured Out How Some People Get Drunk Without Drinking
Millions Used Their Computers to Search for Aliens. Now Scientists Have 100 Signals Worth a Closer Look
Man’s Switch to Keto Diet Triggers Bizarre, Rare Rash
Humanoid Robots Are Here… and Embarrassingly Bad at Being Our Servants
China Just Built Its Own Time System for the Moon
The Weirdest Gadgets We Saw at CES 2026
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From January 11, 2026)
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The Sad Tech of CES 2026
Investigating the FIRST Solid State Battery in HISTORY
Is Donut Labs Misrepresenting Their Solid-State Battery Technology?
Ozempic Quitters Pay a Heavy Price, Research Shows
NWS AI-Generated Weather Predictions Are Making Up New Towns
Google Just Stuffed a Bunch of New AI Into Your Gmail
Astronomers Discover Unusual Asteroid Spinning Faster Than Anything Its Size
Woman Visits the Galápagos and All She Got Was This Exotic Eye Parasite
Do I Have the ‘Super Flu’? Here’s What You Need to Know
NASA Orders ISS Medical Evacuation—but Here’s the Real Surprise
Iconic Hubble Telescope Could Be Dead in 3 Years
Will 2026 Be the Year That the AI Industry Stops Crowing About ‘AGI’?
Weight Loss Drugs Like Zepbound Could Help Treat Arthritis, Trial Shows
Researchers Just Sampled 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Air—and It’s Not What They Expected
Utah Becomes First State to Let AI Prescribe Medication
Florida’s Surgeon General Is Now Peddling Fake Water
Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds
Silicon Valley Is Flirting with a Very Stupid New Way to Die
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From Paul’s SpaceNet Report:
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(From January 4, 2026)
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The ‘Super Flu’ Is Hitting Kids Hard—and Some Aren’t Surviving
Scientists Scanned 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals. Here’s What They Found
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Raw Oysters Behind Salmonella Outbreak Sweeping Across the US, CDC Warns
People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children
SpaceX Will Move Thousands of Starlinks Closer to Earth in 2026. Here’s Why
Startup Satellite Hits 1,800 Degrees, Cooks Up Plasma in Orbit for the First Time
A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Threatens People Around the World, Scientists Warn
As Measles Cases Top 2,000, the U.S. Is on Brink of Losing Its Elimination Status
A Deadly Mad Cow-Like Disease Is Spreading Among North American Deer
Something Is Making Humanoid Robot Makers Worry: The Robots Suck
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(From January 4, 2026)
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