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• Financials drive European stocks bounce after Fed hit - Investing.com

  01-08-2019 10:48 via investing.com
  Financials drive European stocks bounce after Fed hit  Investing.comLondon Stock Exchange to Buy Refinitiv for $27 Billion  The New York TimesLondon Stock Exchange agrees to buy Refinitiv in $27 billion deal  CNBCLondon Stock Exchange buys data provider Refinitiv in $27 billion deal  CNNBritain's LSE lands 'defining' $27 billion Refinitiv deal in data drive  ReutersView full coverage on Google News
  
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• From the archive: Can Apple make the first wantable smartwatch?

  31-08-2026 23:43 via popsci.com
  
  Editor’s note: This story was originally published in July 2015What makes a gadget worth wearing? Apple is betting it knows better than anyone, and today they’ll likely reveal the final details of the Apple Watch–the most anticipated piece of technology since, well, the last Apple device to hit the streets.Apple is rarely a first mover in electronics. We’ve all grown used to the company walking into existing markets and redefining them: the original Macintosh, the iMac, t
  
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• Can Apple Make The First Wantable Smartwatch?

  31-08-2026 23:35 via popsci.com
  
  What makes a gadget worth wearing? Apple is betting it knows better than anyone, and today they’ll likely reveal the final details of the Apple Watch–the most anticipated piece of technology since, well, the last Apple device to hit the streets.Apple is rarely a first mover in electronics. We’ve all grown used to the company walking into existing markets and redefining them: the original Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. When it decides to jump in a pool, it
  
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• National Parks commemorate ties to WWII ahead of 85th Pearl Harbor anniversary

  31-08-2026 23:04 via popsci.com
  
  The United States’ 63 official National Parks are often renowned for their natural beauty, but many of them are also hubs of history. To help honor both the country’s 250th birthday and the upcoming 85th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than a dozen locations are participating in World War II Across America’s National Parks. According to a recent announcement, three parks from around the country will highlight “different parts of America’s wartime sto
  
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• History-making mother bear could be big Fat Bear Week 2026 contender

  31-08-2026 22:17 via popsci.com
  
  We are mere weeks away from Fat Bear Week 2026, but the brown bears (Ursus arctos) gorging on salmon at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are already showing off that beautiful bulk. Based on a recent video posted by explore.org, Bear #910 might be a major contender for this year’s competition.Bear #910 is a female brown bear that was first spotted in 2019 at Katmai’s Brooks River. She is about 10.5-years-old, has large, blonde, floppy ears, which can help viewers pick her
  
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• Rainbow Serpent rock art grew larger as Europeans colonized Aboriginal Australia

  31-08-2026 20:32 via popsci.com
  
  Few entities from Australia’s Aboriginal cultures are more powerful than a Rainbow Serpent. Often likened to an archetypal mother goddess, the beings are associated with concepts like creation and chaos. Rainbow Serpents even possess the ability to fold the cosmos itself (often known as Dreamtime) to blend the past and the present. While stone wall paintings and rock arrangements of Rainbow Serpents across Australia date back hundreds of years, many examples of these revered deities appare
  
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• New fabric stays cooler than white cotton—and it’s purple

  31-08-2026 19:08 via popsci.com
  
  With the dog days of summer nearing an end, many are counting down the days until they can give the darker clothes in their wardrobe a bit more love. Though plenty of people flout seasonal rules and wear all-black year-round, light-colored fabrics are typically the better choice during  hotter months because they reflect sunlight and can help keep us cool. This heat-reflecting logic is also partly responsible for the old decree, “don’t wear white after Labor Day!” But what
  
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• Raccoon rescued after sticking its head in a Cape Cod drain grate

  31-08-2026 18:11 via popsci.com
  
  Animals sometimes get stuck in the strangest (and most terrible) of places. From a peanut butter jar to a car’s front grill, wildlife experts have certainly seen it all. But when Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts received a call about a raccoon trapped in a drain grate earlier this month, their veterinary staff had their hands full with three other emergencies. While they couldn’t get to the trapped raccoon right away, other animal lovers were ready to step in. T
  
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• Biologists discover why snake embryos always coil to the right

  31-08-2026 17:00 via popsci.com
  
  When it’s time to finally greet the world, snakes emerge from their shells with the longest bodies of any vertebrate animal. This remarkable evolutionary achievement is only possible due to their limber gestational contortions. Snake embryos develop in a tight spiral, and these early stage coils always form dextrally, or towards the right. But how (and why) the reptiles consistently favor this right angle has baffled biologists for years.“There is a touch of mystery to spirals,&rdquo
  
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• September Stargazing: Summer’s official end, a big ol’ moon, and a chance to see Neptune

  31-08-2026 15:00 via popsci.com
  
  September 9Epsilon Perseids Predicted peakSeptember 22Autumnal EquinoxSeptember 26Neptune in Full OppositionSeptember 26Full Harvest MoonThe days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, the temperature is dropping. That’s right, folks, summer is officially over! Well, not quite yet, but the month of September ushers in the official beginning of fall, along with a rare chance to see the solar system’s most distant planet, the Epsilon Perseids meteor shower, and a full moo
  
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• What Happened To the AI Job Apocalypse?

  31-08-2026 04:07 via technocracy.news
  
  AI is the ultimate disruptor, but the employment apocalypse hasn’t happened as predicted… so far. What we have is employment churn, but not necessarily employment burn. Across multiple industries, employees are reporting increased job stress and burnout because of strain of using AI. Many employees are reporting more work because AI gives them more tasks to do.⁃ Patrick Wood Editor.A recent report from Stanford reviewed the latest employment data and found that, so f
  
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• How to take better photos on any smartphone

  30-08-2026 19:00 via popsci.com
  
  Our phones get better camera hardware and image-processing software with each passing year, but most of the time when we’re snapping photos we’re not doing anything other than pointing and shooting—and then moving on.And clearly speed and convenience are benefits. Today’s best phones let you capture great images without worrying too much about lighting, framing, white balance, or any of the other considerations a professional photographer would think about. At the sa
  
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• Virginia scientists discover the cues black bears use for hibernation

  30-08-2026 16:31 via popsci.com
  
  Researchers have long assumed that the timing of American black bear (Ursus americanus) annual hibernation mostly depends on temperature. However, new research indicates that how the bears know it’s time to hibernate might be more complicated than they once thought. A team from Virginia Tech investigated how temperature and daylight hours interact to influence the species’ hibernation behavior. To do so, the team followed the activity of four wild, pregnant female bears througho
  
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• Can apps really make you fluent in another language?

  30-08-2026 14:03 via popsci.com
  
  For the last five months, I’ve had a daily date with a little green owl. It cheers me on when I finish a language lesson and sends passive-aggressive reminders when I put it off. A few months in, I was thrilled to realize I could follow bits of a German conversation I happened to overhear. But I still wondered: If I keep using this app, will I actually be able to understand entire conversations and express myself clearly? So I asked some experts.What language apps do wellApps like Duo
  
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• NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches

  30-08-2026 13:38 via popsci.com
  
  Today at 7:26 a.m. EDT, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope officially launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon Heavy’s 27 Merlin engines generated over 5 million pounds of thrust, and pushed the rocket through the atmosphere. It got it’s “first taste of space” about four minutes after liftoff.The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope shortly after launch. Image: NASA
  Roman is now en route to
  
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• Archaeologists Discover Evidence of “Brands” 3,200 Years Before Modern Capitalism

  30-08-2026 12:48 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers found that brands existed long before modern capitalism. Long before modern corporations and capitalism, craftspeople may already have been producing goods with a recognizable identity that traveled far beyond their place of origin. An international team led by Marta Luciani of the University of Vienna has found evidence that distinctive painted pottery made in [...]
  
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• Fears of more flooding in Nepal, 100 Americans among the missing as rescue efforts step up

  30-08-2026 12:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  KATHMANDU — Authorities in Nepal have warned of the risk of further flooding after heavy rainfall, as China sheds light on the scale of the disaster in its Tibet region.
  
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• “Zombie” Cells Reveal a Surprising New Driver of Chronic Inflammation

  30-08-2026 03:51 via scitechdaily.com
  Dysfunctional mitochondria may drive age-related inflammation by helping switch on inflammatory genes, and blocking SLC25A1 reduced that activity. As people age, senescent cells accumulate in the body. These so-called “zombie” cells have stopped dividing but remain metabolically active, releasing inflammatory molecules that can contribute to persistent inflammation associated with frailty, cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegeneration, and [...]
  
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• The Rare Vision Side Effect of Ozempic and Wegovy You Should Know About

  30-08-2026 02:36 via scitechdaily.com
  Rutgers researchers say the risk is low, but patients should still be aware of the possible association. GLP-1 medications have become widely used for Type 2 diabetes and obesity, with drugs such as semaglutide, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy, and tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, among the best-known examples. The drugs can also reduce [...]
  
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• NASA’s New Space Telescope Could Map the Entire Sky With Hubble-Like Detail

  29-08-2026 23:27 via scitechdaily.com
  NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will combine a panoramic view of the cosmos with powerful tools for probing dark energy and hidden worlds. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is just one day from launch, and it is built to see the universe in a way no major space telescope has before. Roman will combine Hubble-like [...]
  
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• Hidden Deep Beneath Mars, Scientists Find Evidence of a Vast Magmatic System

  29-08-2026 22:11 via scitechdaily.com
  Mars may have built a surprisingly complex crust through large magmatic systems without the plate tectonics long thought necessary. Mars has no moving tectonic plates, yet deep beneath its surface may lie evidence of the kind of vast, interconnected magmatic systems once thought to require them. Researchers from the University of Oxford have found signs [...]
  
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• How gross is wearing your shoes inside?

  29-08-2026 19:00 via popsci.com
  
  Do you take your shoes off when you enter your home? If not, I think you’re disgusting (sorry, not sorry, I’m Canadian)! Jokes aside, there is a real cultural divide around whether you take your shoes off when entering a home. The practice varies internationally. It’s the norm in much of Asia, for example. In the United States, however, the practice varies. A 2018 YouGov poll found that only 31 percent of Americans “always” take off their shoes at home, but mos
  
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• One Tiny Chemical Difference in RNA Could Help Explain the Origins of Life

  29-08-2026 18:57 via scitechdaily.com
  A tiny chemical difference makes RNA better than DNA at forming liquid-like droplets under high temperatures and acidic conditions. One of the biggest puzzles in origin of life research comes before the first cells even existed: How could RNA molecules gather in one place, interact, and help produce early life without cellular compartments to hold [...]
  
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• NASA launches its next-generation space telescope

  29-08-2026 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  NASA on Sunday launched a next-generation telescope into space that is expected to survey hundreds of millions of stars and billions of galaxies.
  
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• Your Gut Microbiome May Be Contagious, Scientists Discover

  29-08-2026 17:42 via scitechdaily.com
  In addition to diet and medication, person-to-person transmission can also play an important role in shaping the microbiome. The human gut contains a vast community of trillions of microorganisms (the microbiome) that helps shape digestion, immune function, and metabolism. A team led by the University of Vienna used a method called ‘reverse ecology’ to show [...]
  
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• Over 10,000 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs are taking California by storm

  29-08-2026 16:18 via popsci.com
  
  Mountain yellow-legged frogs used to be the kings of the mountain. Specifically, the Sierra Nevada mountains, where they were once the region’s most common amphibians only. But their reign has since plummeted dramatically. Now 92 percent of their historic range is void of the colorful animal.“These frogs used to be quite abundant. In the Sierra Nevada mountains, there are reports of showers of frogs jumping as scientists walked along a lake bank, and even of it being difficult to tak
  
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• New Drug Combination Shows Promise Against Advanced Prostate Cancer

  29-08-2026 14:23 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers identified a promising approach to slowing treatment-resistant prostate cancer by targeting two key cancer pathways at the same time. Prostate cancer is diagnosed in about one in eight men during their lifetime. Many survive the disease, but for some, it eventually spreads beyond the prostate and becomes metastatic. In the United States, prostate cancer [...]
  
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• Why you shouldn’t trust everything you find in an AI web search

  29-08-2026 14:00 via popsci.com
  
  One of the many ways that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can help you is in searching the web. Indeed, if you load up the Google website these days, AI search is pretty much forced on you—the traditional, ranked list of blue links is some way down the page, if it appears at all.This new type of information retrieval can feel more natural and convenient—like having a conversation with an expert rather than diving through pages and pages of results—but is it actually any mor
  
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• Scientists Find a Troubling Effect of Sitting That Exercise Couldn’t Prevent

  29-08-2026 13:08 via scitechdaily.com
  Improved fitness did not prevent prolonged sitting from impairing blood-vessel function in the legs. Long hours of sitting are often treated as something a good workout can offset. But new research from Dalhousie University suggests the cardiovascular effects of prolonged inactivity may be harder to undo. Published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, the [...]
  
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• NASA administrator explains how Roman Telescope will change understanding of the universe 

  29-08-2026 04:08 via nbcnews.com
  NBC News' Gadi Schwartz speaks with NASA administrator Jared Isaacman about the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope launch, the Artemis III launch in 2027, and SpaceX's new Louisiana Starbase.
  
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