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• NASA Triumph: Science Restored on Hubble Space Telescope After Gyro Glitch

  01-05-2024 09:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  On April 30, 2024, NASA announced it restored the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to science operations on April 29. The spacecraft is in good health...
  
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• Yosemite National Park highlights Indigenous arrowhead crafting

  11-09-2026 21:31 via popsci.com
  
  There is a simple reason why Indigenous arrowhead crafting has remained largely the same for thousands of years—if something works, it works. The earliest examples of these lethal tools date back around 74,000 years ago to Stone Age Ethiopia, but the skill is still practiced today by trained artisans around the world. Yet, the process isn’t only a matter of breaking rocks into sharp-edged projectiles.. As Yosemite National Park officials recently highlighted, there is more to this ve
  
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• Previously classified 9/11 documents released by CIA on 25th anniversary of attacks

  11-09-2026 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The CIA released 71 declassified documents related to the 9/11 attacks on Friday, the 25th anniversary of deadly Al Qaeda terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
  
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• Tiny crabs discovered hitching rides on sea snakes

  11-09-2026 20:11 via popsci.com
  
  Many organisms often set up their homes on sea turtles. Known as epibionts, the most noticeable passengers are usually the algae and barnacles clinging to the marine reptile’s protective shell. Other epibionts include tiny crabs in the Planes genus who frequently hitch rides inside the crevices between a turtle’s shell and body.Biologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently confirmed a surprising addition to crustaceans’ roster of ocean taxis, however. After exami
  
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• Octopuses Hitching Rides on Dolphins, the Largest Viking Silver Hoard Discovered, and Daily Sugary Drinks Could Raise Stomach Cancer Risk

  11-09-2026 19:19 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Discover the top stories from Sept. 5 to Sept. 11, 2026, including photos of an octopus riding a dolphin and how a daily sugary drink could increase your stomach cancer risk.
  
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• Now recruiting: North Korea looks abroad for talent in its scheme to infiltrate U.S. companies

  11-09-2026 19:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  North Korea’s surreptitious push to plant employees in U.S. companies has expanded to include remote workers from other countries, such as Iran and Lebanon, according to U.S. government and foreign agencies and several cybersecurity researchers.
  
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• New moment of silence held for those lost to 9/11 health effects

  11-09-2026 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  A moment of silence was held near ground zero in honor of those who have been impacted by the health-related effects of the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York.
  
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• Dog poop not picked up? Blame people staring at their phones.

  11-09-2026 18:32 via popsci.com
  
  Anyone who regularly walks a dog has likely felt the heavy pull of their smartphone to break up the monotony. Though the hustle and bustle of modern life makes multitasking more appealing than ever, distracted dog walking can put the pooch and its owner in dangerous spots. It may also contribute to piles of abandoned, unscooped poop.That last point comes from a new study published in the journal Society & Natural Resources by researchers at the University of Surrey in England. The team spent
  
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• How to craft pocket notebooks for pennies

  11-09-2026 17:17 via popsci.com
  
  E-ink tablets are much easier on the eyes and often even allow users to write on them using a stylus, but the bells and whistles frequently come with a steep price tag. Luddites on a budget still frequently opt instead for a classic pocket paper notebook,but even then, the portable thought journals frequently feel unnecessarily expensive. A pack of three miniature Moleskine journals currently costs $13, leaving many aspiring writers to jot down their ideas on scraps of paper and coffee shop rece
  
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• Will Spiking Diesel Prices Drive Autonomous Trucking?

  11-09-2026 16:57 via technocracy.news
  
  With the national price of diesel hitting $6.05 as California hits $8.00 per gallon, one wonders what will happen to the trucking industry that delivers the goods across America. Labor is the largest expense for trucking, so many trucking companies are planning to switch to autonomous trucks. In the meantime, a slew of independent trucking companies are biting the dust. This is a fundamental change in our economic system. ⁃ Patrick Wood Editor.Swedish freight company Einride’s a
  
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• The cubs from Katmai’s ‘Brady Bunch’ blended family are all grown up

  11-09-2026 16:05 via popsci.com
  
  To the untrained eye, two female brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve look like any other bears. But Bear #609 (Bean) and Bear #620 were raised in Katmai’s historic Brady Bunch-esque blended family.Between mid-August and October 2022, Bear #910 blended her family with her sister Bear #909’s family. In the process, she adopted her sister’s 2.5-year-old female yearling cub (a one- to two-year-old cub still with its mother), while she hers
  
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• Apple sealed the iPod shut, and hackers have been prying it open ever since

  11-09-2026 15:36 via popsci.com
  
  I recently found my old iPod Video, and it still works. More importantly, it still has the version of Most Precious Blood’s “So Typical My Heart” with original vocalist Tom Sheehan singing. I’ve been toying with the idea of modding the iPod so it works with wireless headphones. I probably never will, but it’s fun to think about.That itch has followed the iPod for its entire life. Apple built a sealed music player, and people spent the next two decades prying it open
  
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• In 1959, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship set sail before the world was ready

  11-09-2026 14:54 via popsci.com
  
  By the time naval architecture firm George G. Sharp tasked Jack Heaney with the design of the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Glasgow-born designer had already broken many styling norms. In the mid-1940s, Heaney transformed routine ocean transport into a festive occasion when he designed the interiors of the SS President Wilson and SS President Cleveland with Hawaiian murals, carved glass panels, and a smoking lounge dressed in playful, exotic wall art. His gift for making
  
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• 25 years ago, Tom Brokaw anchors 9/11 NBC News Special Report

  11-09-2026 14:52 via nbcnews.com
  25 years ago, Tom Brokaw delivered an NBC News Special Report on September 11, 2001, after terrorists hijacked four commercial planes and carried out coordinated attacks against targets in the U.S. Two were flown into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon, and one – after the passengers and crew fought back – crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.
  
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• Anthropic Says it Blocked Efforts to Use AI for Biological Weapons

  11-09-2026 14:12 via today.com
  AI company Anthropic says it uncovered multiple attempts by researchers linked to foreign governments to use Claude and other tools for work that could lead to deadly bioweapons. That research was detected and blocked by Anthropic but experts say this kind of example is just the tip of the iceberg. NBC’s Christine Romans reports for TODAY.
  
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• ‘Never Forget’: How Americans remember Sept. 11

  11-09-2026 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  From an 11-year-old watching the towers fall on a classroom TV to a doctor treating victims in a conference room, NBC News readers share their searing memories from Sept. 11, 2001.
  
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• The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here

  11-09-2026 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.
  
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• More AI researchers warn of AI's threat to humanity

  11-09-2026 03:19 via nbcnews.com
  NBC News' Tom Llamas spoke to two more artificial intelligence researchers about the potential threat A.I has to humanity. This comes after AI researcher Jacob Coxon shared a viral tweet saying he believed AI could kill humanity in the next decade. Llamas also spoke to Incoming Professor at UC Berkley Sayash Kapoor who also warns of risk, but says policy proposals and regulations can help prevent further threats. 
  
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• Growing chorus of A.I. insiders warns of possible extinction of humans

  11-09-2026 00:43 via nbcnews.com
  Former employees from some of the top A.I. companies say the potential of future models is nothing short of the killing of all humans. NBC News’ Christine Romans reports.
  
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• Two researchers who left Anthropic and Google warn AI could become ‘uncontrollable’

  11-09-2026 00:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  After Jacob Coxon roiled the AI industry with his viral departure from Anthropic, two more researchers are speaking out about their concerns over AI safety.
  
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• People Who Drink Sugary Beverages Every Day May Have More Than Double the Risk of Developing Stomach Cancer

  11-09-2026 00:30 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how a study of over 100,000 U.S. adults found a link between a daily sugary drink and gastric cancer.
  
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• 160-Million-Year-Old ‘Squid Butt’ Fossil Is the Chunkiest Belemnite Ever Found

  11-09-2026 00:15 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how two chunky fossils found in Wyoming revealed a new species of squid-like animal that lived 160 million years ago.
  
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• Fossil Feathers Hidden in Dinosaur Poop May Explain Why Some Birds Survived Mass Extinction 66 Million Years Ago

  10-09-2026 23:45 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how feathers in dinosaur poop from the Hell Creek Formation could help explain why some birds survived the mass extinction while others died out.
  
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• A Marble Slab at Hadrian’s Villa Records a Lightning Strike Romans Believed Came From a God

  10-09-2026 22:45 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how an inscription at Hadrian’s Villa reveals the Roman ritual of burying lightning-struck material and marking the ground as sacred.
  
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• ‘Squid butt’ fossil belongs to one of the ‘chunkiest’ cephalopods ever discovered

  10-09-2026 22:10 via popsci.com
  
  Thanks to having the “chunkiest squid butt” ever seen on an ancient cephalopod, paleontologists have discovered a 160-million-year-old octopus cousin. The newly identified fossils are described by an international research team in their study recently published in Papers in Palaeontology, which also includes a potential explanation for Wyoteuthis linsterorum’s hefty proportions. Just like today’s tentacled ocean dwellers, the Mesozoic squid ancestor likely had no problem
  
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• A 2,000-Year-Old Ring May Reveal New Clues About Pontius Pilate’s Administration

  10-09-2026 22:05 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how reanalyzing a 2,000-year-old ring with a possible link to Pontius Pilate is shedding new light on the people who helped govern Roman Judea.
  
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• 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals a Surprisingly Strong Primordial Magnetic Field

  10-09-2026 20:24 via scitechdaily.com
  Ancient meteorite minerals reveal a surprisingly strong magnetic field from the solar system’s first 200,000 years. About 4.6 billion years ago, before the Sun and planets existed in their familiar forms, the solar system was a vast cloud of gas and dust. Within a few million years, this “solar nebula” collapsed and flattened into a [...]
  
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• Humans experimented with mind-altering drugs 25,000 years ago

  10-09-2026 20:21 via popsci.com
  
  We humans love our mind-altering substances. Cultures around the world have discovered, ritualized, and simply experimented with alcoholic drinks and ingestible drugs for millennia. However, recent archaeological evidence indicates humanity possibly began utilizing psychoactive plants much earlier than previously believed. Based on findings published in the journal Science Advances, some communities in present-day Indonesia enjoyed the effects of betel nuts as long as 25,000 years ago. This push
  
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• Humans experimented with drugs 23,000 years earlier than we thought

  10-09-2026 20:21 via popsci.com
  
  We humans love our mind-altering substances. Cultures around the world have discovered, ritualized, and simply experimented with alcoholic drinks and ingestible drugs for millennia. However, recent archaeological evidence indicates humanity possibly began utilizing psychoactive plants much earlier than previously believed. Based on findings published in the journal Science Advances, some communities in present-day Indonesia enjoyed the effects of betel nuts as long as 25,000 years ago. This push
  
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• Scientists May Have Cracked the Mystery of the Moon’s Unequal Hemispheres

  10-09-2026 19:49 via scitechdaily.com
  Chang’e-6 samples suggest the Moon’s two very different sides may have formed when uneven heating drove magma from one hemisphere to the other. The Moon presents two dramatically different faces. Its Earth-facing hemisphere is rich in dark volcanic plains, while the farside is dominated by older highlands and a much thicker crust. New analyses of [...]
  
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