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April 20, 2026, 01:22 PM - 5 min read
The study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The same also applies to all bilateral animals, meaning animals whose bodies can be divided into roughly mirror-image left and right halves.
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April 19, 2026, 01:43 PM - 7 min read
Young people used AI to try on different identities, process real-life relationships, and re-author difficult real-life scenarios. Some people created “clones” of themselves, with superpowers or self-affirmingversions of themselves.
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April 17, 2026, 12:49 PM - 9 min read
Galaxies and stars from the contraction phase effectively collapse into black holes, erasing most of their detailed structure but preserving their mass. Could these black holes be dark matter? For decades, the leading candidate has been a fundamental particle — but none has been detected despite extensive searches.
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April 8, 2026, 03:25 PM - 5 min read
Inspired by bats, a new ultra-low-power sensing system enables tiny drones to navigate through darkness, smoke and dust, where cameras and other light-based sensors fail.
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March 25, 2026, 02:49 PM - 7 min read
The United States and its allies have built a layered system to watch the skies day and night. This system uses satellites in space, radar on the ground, ships at sea and aircraft in the air. It also depends on well-trained military members from U.S. Space Command who make quick decisions with the data.
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March 22, 2026, 12:41 PM - 6 min read
A great deal of visual processing in the brain goes on well below our conscious awareness. People with blindsight report that they are unable to see, either entirely or in a portion of their visual field. However, when asked to guess what is there, they can often do so with remarkable accuracy.
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March 19, 2026, 02:03 PM - 6 min read
People living with hearing loss often rely on visual predictive cues to understand and follow conversation.
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February 8, 2026, 01:41 PM - 6 min read
WOH G64 is special as it is transforming on a human time scale that is usually not the case when scientists observe stars. Is this star offering scientists an opportunity not to be missed to witness the final death throes of massive stars?
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January 29, 2026, 04:33 PM - 6 min read
A runaway black hole of a million or billion solar masses will create huge disruptions to the stars and gas around it as it travels through a galaxy.
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November 13, 2025, 06:10 PM - 4 min read
Floated as a tender closing on November 20, this initiative promises to consign outdated jigs and paper blueprints to history in favour of laser-sharp digital guidance, slashing build times and errors on the factory floor.
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August 20, 2025, 01:45 PM - 8 min read
Is our universe perfectly flat or does it have curvature to it like a sphere, or flare outwards like a horse saddle? That depends on how dense the universe is, and mapping galaxy clusters helps us measure the density of a hypothetical force known as dark energy.
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August 6, 2025, 06:33 PM - 4 min read
Indexing a journal in a database of scientific literature improves its visibility and makes it easily discoverable to researchers and the public, while de-indexing removes it.
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