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Physicists find major clue to matter’s biggest mystery | Scientific American

Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter

At 28, her breakthrough could upend the global rare earths industry - Futura-Sciences

Specializing in news analysis via desk research and international wire services, the team focuses on transforming raw information into accessible, verified content. This curation and synthesis process ensures constant monitoring of technological innovations and major scientific breakthroughs.

India needs robust systems for advanced therapies | Hindustan Times

India has already shown what is possible when science, policy, infrastructure and institutions move with a shared sense of purpose. Applying that same mission mindset to advanced therapies can ensure that scientific breakthroughs do not remain isolated achievements but become treatments that ...

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News: U.S. and World News Headlines : NPR

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Artificial Intelligence News. Everything on AI including futuristic robots with artificial intelligence, computer models of human intelligence and more.

The latest AI-powered martech news and releases | MarTech

Nielsen’s DoubleVerify deal helps verification as AI takes on more media decisions, raising new questions about trust and transparency.

Space exploration

Job titles of the future: Space travel agent | MIT Technology Review

Roman Chiporukha is turning from earthbound luxury travel to an exclusive new frontier.

Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers

President Donald Trump is ordering the U.S. Navy to remove the advanced system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carriers and return to using older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers.

Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight to 2027 | Space

Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to February 2027. The company hasn't been to space since June 2024.

Renewable energy progress

Utah Clean Energy’s Climate Innovation Center earns official zero energy and zero carbon designations

It’s official: Utah Clean Energy’s Climate Innovation Center has achieved two of the most rigorous standards for building performance in the country: the Zero Carbon Certification™ and Zero Energy Certification™ through the International Living Future Institute.

'One step forward, one step back' - clean energy jobs growth stifled by canceled projects

Thousands of clean energy jobs were created, but project cancellations offset gains, according to advocacy group E2 and Atlas Public Policy.

Pasadena Launches New Solar, Energy Storage Initiatives to Advance 2030 Clean Energy Goal ‹ ColoradoBoulevard.net

Pasadena Water and Power is moving forward with two new initiatives designed to expand local clean energy and help the city reach its goal of providing 100% car

Medical advancements

Ph.D. admissions fell 15% over past year as international applications drop | The College Fix

The AAU claims the decline is a significant cause for concern, as fewer doctoral students “means a thinner bench of innovators, fewer future scientific and medical breakthroughs, and a diminished capacity for the United States to compete against China and other nations in an increasingly ...

Breakthrough To Restore Aging Joints Could Help Treat Osteoarthritis : ScienceAlert

One of the most disappointing and most relatable parts of aging is the experience of a joint no longer doing what it's supposed to do: knees that hurt when you bend down, shoulders that clunk.

Company Notebook - BusinessWest

Country Bank Tops List of Best Massachusetts Banks WARE — Country Bank has been named to the Forbes list of America’s Best-In-State Banks 2026, ranking in first place in Massachusetts. […]

World news

Arsenal in talks over Quansah; transfer news; Giuliani slams Infantino’s critics: football – as it happened | Championship | The Guardian

All latest from the football world, including a look ahead to the EFL season, transfer deals and some huge news at Liverpool

Climate Change | United Nations

Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.

Iran live updates: Trump says he'll declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory - ABC News

Here's how the news is developing. ... Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, posted a response on social media to President Donald Trump's statement that the Strait of Hormuz would be declared a U.S.

Artificial intelligence

Twitch faces backlash over Amazon using content to train AI

Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. | TechCrunch

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images.

Climate solutions

From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now

Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

🔒 How to stop global warming

The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement

Wildfires, heat waves and blackouts exposed the green agenda’s dangerous flaws

From Canadian wildfires to European heat wave deaths, decades of green ideology have blocked forest management, air conditioning and nuclear energy.

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Voyager 1 is whispering back to Earth with a radio transmitter about as powerful as a refrigerator light bulb, from roughly 16 billion miles away. Its signal takes almost a full day to reach us — and, nearly 49 years after launch, it still arrives. For now. - ScienceBlog.com

Voyager 1 transmits at roughly 22 watts, but recovering that signal after more than one light-day depends on precision pointing, known coding and NASA's largest radio antennas.

Bat activity jumped 50% over Midwest solar farms as farmers planted nearby fields, and researchers think vegetation beneath panels may be the reason

The findings add to a growing body of work looking at what happens when renewable energy projects are placed within working landscapes.A solar development does not have to be ecologically empty ground. Where native vegetation is established and maintained, the space beneath the panels can function ...

Astronauts’ weight-bearing bones lose around 1 to 1.5 percent of their mineral density every month in microgravity — and with a journey to Mars potentially lasting nine months, their bodies could already be substantially deconditioned before they take a single step on another planet.

NASA's monthly bone-loss range shows the scale of the Mars-transit risk, but individual outcomes depend on duration, exercise, nutrition and whether loss continues linearly beyond six months.

Voyager 1 isn't dying because anything failed — nearly 50 years of interstellar travel and every original system still works. The mission is ending because a plutonium battery losing 4 watts a year eventually runs out of watts

Voyager 1's four-watt annual power decline is real, but the mission has also survived failed memory, ageing thrusters and a deliberate programme of instrument shutdowns. ... Artist's concept of a Voyager spacecraft travelling through interstellar space.

China Names Its First Space Tourists as $440,000 Suborbital Seats Fill Up

China space tourism has a new frontrunner: Beijing startup InterstellOr has named 22 paying passengers for its CYZ1 spacecraft at $440,000 per seat — including a 73-year-old factory worker turned engineer — targeting a 2028 suborbital launch while both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have ...

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The Aztec Empire's tribute system collected vast quantities of goods from subject peoples, from feathers to cacao to jade.

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