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• 'Neighbor maps' reveal the genome's 3-D shape

  27-10-2016 12:33
  
  A group coordinated by SISSA Trieste has built a 3-D computer model of the human genome. The shape of DNA (and its sequence) affects biological processes and is crucial for understanding its function. The study has provided an approximate but realistic 3-D identikit of the human genome. The resulting structural reconstruction, based on experimental information and statistical methods, will be refined as new experimental data become available. The study is published in Scientific Reports.
  
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• World’s tallest Day of the Dead sculpture erected in Mexico City

  30-10-2026 17:30 via Popular Science
  
  Mexico City has broken a Guinness World Record during its preparations for this year’s Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) celebrations. At nearly 110 feet tall, the colorful sculpture of a female skeleton currently standing in the capital city’s town square (the Zócalo) is officially the world’s tallest La Catrina monument. The roughly 11-story project made from steel and fiberglass required about 140 people to assemble, and overshadows the town of Puerto Vallarta’s 92.3-foot Catrina
  
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• Male black bear ‘Nugget’ wins Introvert Award for his adorable hiding technique

  30-10-2026 16:48 via Popular Science
  
  Like the patient Paul, a male black bear (Ursus americanus) named Nugget would rather hang back alone than jump right into the salmon fest. For his solo tendencies, the team at Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska have awarded Nugget the 2026 Introvert Award.“For much of the season, Nugget could be seen wedged between rocks by lower falls,” the U.S. Forest Service team writes. “If you saw a furry, black head with glassy eyes poking out of a crack—that’s Nugget! You could also
  
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• Seven young condors released in northern California

  30-10-2026 16:12 via Popular Science
  
  In 1986, there wasn’t a single California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) left in the wild. Thankfully, it wasn’t because the birds of prey had gone extinct, but they were getting close. In the 1980s, there were fewer than two dozen condors remaining in the wild. That’s why the United States Fish and Wildlife Service moved them into a captive breeding and release program. Now, the Northern California Condor Restoration Program has released seven young condors into the wild in Yurok Count
  
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• World War II’s baby gas masks are as unnerving as you’d imagine

  30-10-2026 14:54 via Popular Science
  
  Time forgets the vast majority of inventions—usually for good reason. As parents and children everywhere get ready for trick-or-treating, we’d like to turn your attention to one such invention: the baby gas mask. In the November 1938 issue of Popular Science, “a doll demonstrates the use of the baby gas mask” in an undeniably creepy image. The word mask is perhaps a misnomer here, because this contraption actually completely engulfs the baby as “filtered air is pumped in with an artif
  
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• Why your favorite candy tastes different now

  30-10-2026 14:03 via Popular Science
  
  It’s candy—I mean, Halloween—season. But, I mean, let’s be real: The two are kind of interchangeable at this point. But have you ever bitten into your favorite candy bar only to think, “This really doesn’t taste the way it used to?” Well, it turns out, you might be onto something. Candy companies really do sneakily change their recipes. Our taste buds also change as we get older. So what’s really going on here? Are candy companies changing their recipes or do we just taste thing
  
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• Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We’re About to Find Out.

  30-10-2026 11:00 via NYT > Science and Technology
  “This is the first pure-play L.L.M. company to go public, to open its books so we can actually look at the underlying business of this A.I. boom.”
  
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• Gamma-ray burst is one of the brightest in decades

  29-10-2026 21:15 via Popular Science
  
  A gamma-ray burst (GRB) that has confounded astronomers is one of the brightest cosmic light shows in the past 20 years. Although the cosmic explosion first appeared inexplicably weak, researchers now believe it actually shot about one billion years’ worth of solar energy into the cosmos through a beam no thicker than a pencil.“We see hundreds of GRBs every year, but the oddballs are the most informative ones,” said Roberto Ricci, a radioastronomer at Italy’s National Institute of Astrop
  
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• MIT develops robot that slithers through intestines like a snake

  29-10-2026 20:10 via Popular Science
  
  Worms are usually the last thing someone wants in their gut. Just ask this unfortunate Alaskan bear recently spotted with several multi-foot long tapeworms hanging out of its butt. However, a  new type of gut-crawling worm being designed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), may actually be here to help. Their soft robot, called BIOSENTER, is designed to autonomously inch through the crowded, cramped, and coiled small intestine, contracting and extending its body muc
  
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• Rare glob-eyed fish spotted in ocean’s twilight zone

  29-10-2026 19:01 via Popular Science
  
  Few deep-sea species will cause an entire research vessel’s crew to rush into the control room to catch a glimpse—but the barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) is one of them. During the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s (MBARI) recent eight-day Diving Deep for Delicate Drifters expedition, oceanographers aboard the David Packard were reunited with one of these rare, surreal creatures for the first time in nearly five years. This time, they successfully recorded the ethereal fish
  
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• Extremely chill bear named Paul wins a Dude-approved award

  29-10-2026 17:09 via Popular Science
  
  Like people (and snowflakes), no two bears are alike. Some have their own innovative fishing styles, or “walk on water,” while others will even adopt cubs who are not their own. And a bear named Paul is known for his patience. Paul lives in southeastern Alaska, where he spends his summers catching fish in Anan Creek. He is also the winner of the 2026 Dude abides Award from the United States Forest Service team in Tongass National Forest.According to the team, Paul exhibits the patience and n
  
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• Permanent Daylight Saving Time is dangerous for kids, new research says

  29-10-2026 16:00 via Popular Science
  
  Daylight Saving Time (DST) has always been contentious. In the United States, the debate resurfaces almost as regularly as everyone shifts their clocks backwards in the fall and forward in the spring. Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives even passed a bill called the “Sunshine Protection Act” to make DST permanent. However, the legislation hasn’t progressed much further since July, and we are mere days away from falling back.That’s for the best, according to a team of bio
  
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• The puppy-sized bats of Madagascar are shrinking

  29-10-2026 15:00 via Popular Science
  
  It’s the stuff of nightmares. A bat the size of a large-breed puppy with five-foot-wide wingspans darting across the sky. But don’t worry. The giant flying foxes want fruit, not your blood. However, biologists do have something to worry about regarding these enormous winged mammals. Madagascar flying foxes (Pteropus rufus) are shrinking. They have been getting smaller over the past several decades, which biologists suspect may be related to an increase in large-scale commercial hunting. A s
  
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• The creepy science behind sleep paralysis ‘demons’

  29-10-2026 14:02 via Popular Science
  
  Have you ever woken up in the dead of night to find your limbs locked tight? Perhaps as you moved your eyes to the corner of your room, you spotted a demon lurking in the shadows, watching as you struggled against an invisible force. Sleep paralysis is creepy!If you can take any comfort from your experience, it’s to know that sleep paralysis has a long and storied history of tormenting humanity. Why is sleep paralysis such a shared, spooky experience? And who exactly is that shadowy figure sta
  
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• Microsoft’s Profit Jumps 32% Despite Big Increase in Spending

  28-10-2026 21:37 via NYT > Science and Technology
  The company’s free cash flow stayed positive in the last quarter even as it spent $45.2 billion on data centers and offered to pay workers to leave.
  
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• Spider named after Stephen Colbert has twice as many chromosomes as you

  28-10-2026 21:01 via Popular Science
  
  Stephen Colbert’s tenure as host of The Late Show sadly ended when CBS cancelled the historic series in May, but his 11-season run was only possible thanks to a prior gig. From 2005 to 2014, former The Daily Show alum played a larger-than-life, egotistical caricature of himself for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. In 2008, a team of entomologists even named newly discovered species of trapdoor spider after him: Aptostichus stephencolberti. And yes, the “t” in “stephencolberti” is
  
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• Touchscreen shirt shows photos, plays videos, and answers calls

  28-10-2026 20:04 via Popular Science
  
  Engineers and computer scientists have spent the better part of the past 15 years trying to integrate mobile phone technology into clothing. The closest example of these so-called “smart clothes” becoming a retail reality came in 2017, when blue jean behemoth Levi teamed up with Google to release its Jacquard trucker jacket. On the surface, it looked just like the iconic denim original, but its cuff had touch sensors and haptic feedback built in. By fiddling with those inputs, wearers could
  
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• Dog’s paw print found in a 3,700-year-old brick

  28-10-2026 19:00 via Popular Science
  
  Archaeological relics often leave a lot to the imagination. Corroded jewelry and the tattered remnants of ancient clothing only tell part of a much larger story, but sometimes an object offers up a bit more detail. Occasionally, an artifact such as a piece of pottery is so well-preserved that even its creator’s signature is still legible thousands of years later.In Turkey, archaeologists recently excavated an unexpectedly pristine example of one Bronze Age artist’s proof-of-authenticity. How
  
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• Bear with multiple tapeworms sticking out of its butt wins award

  28-10-2026 18:17 via Popular Science
  
  As intestinal parasites go, tapeworms are the stuff of nightmares. Though they can grow over 80 feet long in extreme cases, they often measure less than one-inch-wide. The intestinal parasites feast on their hosts, sucking valuable nutrients from mammals. And then there’s the havoc they wreak on bear butts. One bear spotted in southeastern Alaska’s Tongass National Forest this summer knows all about that. The unnamed bear was spotted with multiple long tape worms poking out of its butt as i
  
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• ‘Hell chicken’ dinosaur likely dined on fruit, not meat

  28-10-2026 16:02 via Popular Science
  
  Don’t let the name fool you: Infernogallus jamesi, aka the “hell chicken,” wasn’t some kind of ancient apex poultry. After extensively reviewing some of the most complete fossilized remains ever found of this Cretaceous era dinosaur, paleontologists now theorize the beaked species didn’t even enjoy meat at all. Instead, soft fruits were on the menu. The findings do more than simply repair the reputation of a turkey-sized dinosaur. In a study recently published in Nature Communications,
  
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• 2026 Audio Awards: 40 products to upgrade your listening experience

  28-10-2026 14:59 via Popular Science
  
  Last year, we started a tradition. For our second annual roundup of outstanding audio gear, we worked even harder to find the highlights. From October 2025 to October 2026, we sat our ears down in hotel suites and a Honda Fit, toured factory floors and demo rooms with the same criteria as last year: make us feel something. What we found were headphones, earbuds, speakers, and sources ranging from close to $100 to nearly $100,000 … something for everyone, let’s say. But enough talk. Let’s p
  
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• Fed meeting live updates: No hike expected, but investors watching Warsh for what's next - CNBC

  28-10-2026 14:50 via news.google.com
  Fed meeting live updates: No hike expected, but investors watching Warsh for what's next  CNBCFed meeting live updates: Federal Reserve weighs elevated inflation, midterm elections as October meeting kicks off  Yahoo FinanceHow the Fed is likely to act on interest rates just days before the midterm elections  Fast CompanyFed expected to hold interest rates steady as inflation tops midterm voters’ concerns  NBC NewsThe Fed says it ignores politics. Its rate moves tell a more complicated
  
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• 9 nature-inspired pumpkin carving patterns from the National Park Service

  28-10-2026 14:48 via Popular Science
  
  The approaching All Hallows Eve means the time has come to carve that jack-o’-lantern to light the way for trick-or-treaters or keep the bad spirits away. The National Park Service’s Pumpkin Carving Challenge offers gourd enthusiasts a way to celebrate nature’s spooky side. “Nothing says ‘scary’ quite like a 2,000-pound furry mammal you’ve annoyed launching you into another dimension. Or the tree above. Either way, it comes with a thud. Talk about a smashing Halloween,” the NPS
  
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• Israel Election Results Live Updates: Exit Polls Show No Clear Winner - The New York Times

  28-10-2026 14:44 via news.google.com
  
  Israel Election Results Live Updates: Exit Polls Show No Clear Winner  The New York TimesNetanyahu survives another day with unexpectedly clear backing of Israeli Jews  ReutersIsrael’s election: The battle between change and anti-Palestinian sentiment  Al JazeeraPoll shows Israel’s looming challenge: American indifference  PoliticoIsrael’s voters deny Binyamin Netanyahu a majority  The Economist
  
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• Stock market today: Dow futures fall, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures climb ahead of Fed decision, Big Tech earnings - Yahoo Finance

  28-10-2026 14:38 via news.google.com
  Stock market today: Dow futures fall, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures climb ahead of Fed decision, Big Tech earnings  Yahoo FinanceU.S. stocks edge higher ahead of Federal Reserve decision on interest rates  Pittsburgh Post-GazetteStock Market Today: Stock Markets Mostly Higher Ahead of Fed Rate Decision  WSJTech's relief rally extends as attention turns to tough decisions for the Fed  CNBCStock Market Today: Dow Falls Ahead Of Rate Decision, Warsh Comments; Robinhood Plunges (Live Covera
  
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• Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning and force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win - AP News

  28-10-2026 14:33 via news.google.com
  Rays stun Brewers with 2-run rally in 12th inning and force World Series Game 5 with 4-3 win  AP NewsRays steal Game 4 from Brewers in extras to stay alive in World Series  ESPNThe Opener: Rays Survive, Pratt, Misiorowski  MLB Trade RumorsWorld Series 2026: With pinch-hit, 12th-inning walk-off, Ben Williamson meets the moment in Game 4 and extends the Rays' season at least one more day  Yahoo Sports‘Baseball is amazing sometimes’: Rays and Brewers gave us another World Series game to
  
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• Live Updates: Iran rejects "unacceptable" ideas as Qatari mediators say they presented new draft deal to Tehran - CBS News

  28-10-2026 14:24 via news.google.com
  
  Live Updates: Iran rejects "unacceptable" ideas as Qatari mediators say they presented new draft deal to Tehran  CBS NewsIran sees only unacceptable ideas in latest mediation to end war, official says  ReutersIran calls Qatar’s draft to end the war ‘unacceptable’  NewsNationIran rejects Qatari peace ideas as Trump leaves door open to new strikes  Iran InternationalQatari mediators hand Iran new proposal to end the war  Yahoo
  
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• Live updates: Spain train crash kills at least 30 as witnesses describe devastating scenes - CNN

  28-10-2026 14:02 via news.google.com
  
  Live updates: Spain train crash kills at least 30 as witnesses describe devastating scenes  CNNAt least 30 people reported dead in high-speed Spain train crash  CNBCSpanish train crash: All Spanish cup matches suspended as mark of respect  BBCAt least 31 dead and 80 injured after two trains collide in Spain – latest updates  The GuardianAt least 30 killed in train collision on high-speed line in Spain  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  
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• A US cruise ship suspends a global voyage in Asia due to fuel costs, stranding 200 passengers - AP News

  28-10-2026 14:02 via news.google.com
  
  A US cruise ship suspends a global voyage in Asia due to fuel costs, stranding 200 passengers  AP NewsA U.S. cruise ship ends voyage due to fuel costs and passengers lose their homes  NPRFlorida cruise operator suspends global voyage in Asia due to fuel costs, stranding 200 passengers  Tampa Bay TimesLuxury round-the-world cruise ends abruptly as fuel costs skyrocket  CNBCLuxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs  BBC
  
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• Murkowski endorses Democrat in Alaska governor race - Politico

  28-10-2026 13:36 via news.google.com
  Murkowski endorses Democrat in Alaska governor race  PoliticoSen. Murkowski endorses Democrat JKT in Alaska’s governor’s race  Alaska's News SourceGOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski endorses Democratic candidate in Alaska governor’s race  NBC NewsMurkowski and Murkowski endorse Alaska’s Democratic governor candidate  Alaska BeaconOpinion: 3 former governors, 1 choice for Alaska  Anchorage Daily News
  
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