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Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk

AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

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The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

A new at-home test for infected ticks could help diagnose Lyme disease more quickly and accurately, potentially reducing…

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

# Summary Researchers propose framing brain development as an engineering problem: How can a genome-sized program…

388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest

So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.

Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

BBC Verify examines the impact of drought and extreme heat on western European rivers, fields and mountains.

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

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The case for overhauling American science

How is parkour helping these seniors avoid injuries?

In one of the world's fastest aging countries, older people are finding creative ways to stay healthy.

Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones

A Finnish study of 2,264 participants found that higher coffee consumption was associated with healthier body…

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

Researchers have established new lower and upper bounds for the Grothendieck constant, narrowing its value to between…

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Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

Earth.nullschool.net

Earth.nullschool.net is an interactive visualization platform that displays real-time global weather and environmental…

THC in cannabis may reduce nightmares in people with PTSD

A drug made up of THC, the main psychoactive component of cannabis, reduced the severity and incidence of nightmares in…

Fishers detonate a bomb every hour on one Indonesian coral reef

The use of explosives to kill fish is widespread across the tropics, and acoustic monitoring in an Indonesian…

Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan

"We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."

How bad is the UK drought and how long will it continue?

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and…

Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution

A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times,…

Why do people ask so few questions in conversation? 

We've perhaps been conditioned to not ask too many questions, in case it comes across as rude or prying.

Indian solar mission's new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries

Why is the Sun's corona millions of degrees hotter than its surface?

US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer

Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.

How Gödel's Proof Works

In 1931, Kurt Gödel proved that any mathematical system based on a set of axioms will inevitably be incomplete—there…

Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship

Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?

AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

By 2030, AI data centers are projected to consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity annually—nearly triple the combined…

‘Remarkable’ discovery upends our understanding of how brains store memories

Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our…

Compute-Optimal Is Not Cluster-Optimal

# Summary Researchers developed MOSAIC, a framework showing that optimizing AI models for computational efficiency…