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Doctors Say These Health Tracker Metrics Actually Matter

While wearable devices offer extensive health data like heart rate, steps, and sleep quality, experts question which metrics are truly…

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Quantum error correction enables constant processor recalibration

Quantum computing faces many practical challenges beyond major hurdles like hardware qubits and exotic states, including the critical issue of…

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New Research: AI Visibility Rankings Are Mostly Statistical Noise

AI visibility tracking data is unreliable because generative models produce varied responses each time, making citation shares mere snapshots of…

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Jupiter-Sized Planet Survives Its Star’s Death

The James Webb Space Telescope observed WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized planet that survived the death of its Sun-like star…

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Anthropic Uncovers Hidden ‘Workspace’ Inside Claude

Anthropic developed a "Jacobian lens" tool that reads Claude's hidden "J-space" region, revealing unspoken concepts the model reasons with but…

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Einstein’s Theory Gets Its Most Precise Test From Orbiting Sphere

Scientists achieved the most precise measurement yet of frame dragging (the Lense-Thirring effect) around Earth, reducing uncertainty to just 0.2…

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Surgeons Control Humanoid Robots in World-First Pig Surgery

In a world-first experiment, humanoid robots successfully removed gallbladders from live pigs, with skilled human surgeons remotely controlling their movements…

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NASA Funds Hardware for ‘Skyfall’ Mars Helicopter Mission

NASA awarded a $13 million subcontract to Firefly Aerospace to build the aeroshell for the nuclear-powered Skyfall spacecraft, which is…

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Robots Dominate RoboCup 2026, Eye Human World Cup Next

Beijing's Booster Robotics swept all three humanoid football divisions at RoboCup 2026, with 38 of 59 teams using their machines,…

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Startup 3D-Prints Kidney and Liver Tissue in Space

Auxilium Biotechnologies successfully bioprinted kidney and liver tissue aboard the ISS, marking a first for both tissue types in orbit,…

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Europe’s Air-Conditioning Revolution Is Coming

The International Energy Agency projects that two-thirds of households worldwide could own an air conditioner by 2050, as global temperatures…

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City Labs Debuts First Commercial Nuclear Satellite

City Labs has launched BOHR, the first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, using a tritium-based "betavoltaic" battery…

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Miami’s City Labs achieves first commercial nuclear power in space

City Labs launched the BOHR satellite, described as the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and nuclear CubeSat, into orbit on…

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Ocean Rift Zone Experienced Sudden Burst of Spreading

A French research team achieved a breakthrough in 2024 by remotely capturing a major tectonic event along the Australian-Antarctic plate…

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Tick-Linked Meat Allergy May Be More Common Than Thought

A new study found that up to 30% of people in certain U.S. areas have antibodies for alpha-gal syndrome, a…

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Dragonflies Maneuver Like Fighter Pilots, Study Shows

Male dragonflies engage in mid-air "dogfights" using simple rules focused on maintaining a tactical position over rivals, mirroring human fighter…

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How AI is bringing autonomous robots to workplaces and homes

General-purpose autonomous robots are moving from science fiction to reality, driven by modern AI and attracting billions in venture capital…

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British Space Startup Sends Longevity Lab to Orbit

A British startup, Mass Balance, has launched a self-contained lab into orbit to study how zero-gravity affects biological reactions, aiming…

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Oldest Americana Artifact Flown in Space Revealed

In April 1985, the space shuttle "Discovery" carried two 15-inch miniature Statues of Liberty made from copper removed during the…

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The Web Grows a Second Layer, Approaching a Third

The article explains that multiple new machine-readable formats (OKF, ARD, LLMs.txt, MCP) are emerging for AI, but they form distinct…

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