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• Orbital ATK proposes man-tended lunar-orbit outpost by 2020 for link up with NASA's Orion

  20-05-2016 15:10
  
  Orbital ATK has unveiled a practical new proposal to build a near term man-tended outpost in lunar orbit that could launch by 2020 and be operational in time for a lunar link-up with NASA's Orion crew module during its maiden mission, when American astronauts finally return to the moon's vicinity in 2021 – thus advancing America's next giant leap in human exploration of deep space.
  
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• Excerpt: Introduction to Crucible Of Tokens

  29-09-2026 22:42 via technocracy.news
  Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
  To all of those who have read my books, listened to me in person, on roundtables, videos, and radio: I have heard your cries of “What can we do to protect ourselves?” Here is my answer, in layman’s terms, to help you see the big picture and then take courage and take cover.
  Something is being done to you, and it is being done with your signature.
  It is not being done with a sheriff at the door, or a decre
  
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• Mathematician creates new shape with 8 sides, 26 edges, and 3 holes

  29-09-2026 22:01 via popsci.com
  
  It may be hard to believe, but mathematicians are still discovering shapes. The latest three-dimensional example is far stranger than your standard cube or pyramid. Dubbed the genus-3 polyhedron by Ruslan Mizhaev, the independent researcher’s newly identified shape features eight faces arranged so that every pair shares at least one edge. The end result is an oddity with 26 edges and 24 vertices, with 20 face pairs sharing a single edge while eight others share two faces. And as if the con
  
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• Ukrainian Science Academy, Struck by Drone, Played Key Role in Research

  29-09-2026 20:45 via nytimes.com
  Over 90 percent of Ukraine’s scientific discoveries have been attributed to Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, including advancements in astronomy and military technology.
  
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• Cold War espionage added $4.6 billion to East Germany’s economy

  29-09-2026 20:15 via popsci.com
  
  No matter what side you were on, espionage was a cornerstone of Cold War political life. But it was also big business. Espionage was so integral to East Germany that on the eve of the Berlin Wall’s collapse, spying on the West was juicing the nation’s economy by nearly 7.5 percent. In the manufacturing sector, industrial espionage boosted value by over 22 percent in 1988 alone—roughly $4.6 billion in 2020 prices.These and other insights are analyzed in a recent study overseen b
  
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• OpenAI Unveils Dots, New A.I. Agents to Rival Meta’s Muse

  29-09-2026 19:15 via nytimes.com
  The ChatGPT maker unveiled agents that act as assistants, just weeks after Meta released Muse, as it faces scrutiny over incidents involving its technology.
  
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• Amazon’s Big Deal Days sale starts October 6th, but here are 70 early deals worth buying right now

  29-09-2026 18:37 via popsci.com
  
  Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale doesn’t officially start until October 6th, but the deals have already started pouring in. And while patience is a virtue, that’s not always true when it comes to holiday shopping. Some of these products are likely already hitting their low prices for the year, so postponing your shopping until the sale (or even Black Friday) will only put you behind. We’ve surveyed thousands of deals already so far and come away with this massive list of
  
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• Since 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp has raised $1.3 billion for habitat conservation

  29-09-2026 17:08 via popsci.com
  
  Three hundred thirty-one gorgeous duck stamps. Fifteen finalists. Two days of fierce competition. One winner. For the fourth time, Robert Hautman of Delano, Minnesota, is the winner of the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. His acrylic painting of a pair of long-tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis)will be made into the 2027-2028 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, aka the Duck Stamp. This annual bird stamp raises roughly $40 million per year to support wetland habitat conse
  
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• Technics’ new EAH-A1000 flagship wireless headphones are a fluid mixture of precision and feeling

  29-09-2026 16:00 via popsci.com
  
  In 1994, I got my first summer job at a video store so I could save up enough to stock up on audio gear. I knew, just knew, that if I could get two turntables and a mixer, I could be the next Sasha & Digweed, DJ Icey, or Joey Beltram. And it couldn’t be just any turntables if I was going to headline NASA @ Shelter, The Club at Firestone, Ministry of Sound and/or Renaissance by the time I was 18. It had to be a pair of Technics SL-1200MK2 turntables, the tank-like high-torque
  
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• Fat Bear Week final: It’s Bear #910 vs. Backpack

  29-09-2026 15:18 via popsci.com
  
  Only two remain. Fat Bear Week 2026 comes down to Bear #910 (unofficially known as Dancing Queen) and Bear #89 (Backpack). Which big head will wear the crown? Let’s meet the impressive final two, both of whom come from champion bloodlines.
  Voting opens at 12pm EDT and ends at 9pm EDT (9am-6pm PDT, 8am-5pm AKDT). Read more about the bears battling today below and cast your vote at explore.org. The Fat Bear Week champion will be crowned tonight. May the beefiest bear win.Bear #910Big girl 91
  
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• The world’s loudest birds squawk as loud as a jackhammer

  29-09-2026 15:00 via popsci.com
  
  Two new contenders for the title of world’s loudest bird are flocking into the record books—the bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis) and red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata). The findings are detailed in a study published today in the journal Evolution, and mark another stage in its authors’ quest to understand how evolution shapes bird communication.
  A history of recordsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Jeff Podos and his former graduate student Joã
  
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• How smart are octopuses? Smart enough to use mirror.

  29-09-2026 14:04 via popsci.com
  
  Part of its brain lives in its arms. It can see with its skin. It has no bones at all, allowing it to fit into any space larger than its beak—oh, and yes, it has a beak.This might sound like some fever dream of a next-level alien. In fact, scientists do liken its strange anatomy to something extraterrestrial. But it’s not an alien at all: It’s an octopus, and it’s very much of this Earth. It just happens to be so different from us, it may as well “phone home&rd
  
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• How smart are octopuses? Smart enough to use a mirror.

  29-09-2026 14:04 via popsci.com
  
  Part of its brain lives in its arms. It can see with its skin. It has no bones at all, allowing it to fit into any space larger than its beak—oh, and yes, it has a beak.This might sound like some fever dream of a next-level alien. In fact, scientists do liken its strange anatomy to something extraterrestrial. But it’s not an alien at all: It’s an octopus, and it’s very much of this Earth. It just happens to be so different from us, it may as well “phone home&rd
  
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• Elon Musk Predicts AI Will Beat All Fields by 2028

  29-09-2026 05:55 via technocracy.news
  
  Musk might be right. My AI Capability Multiplier currently stands at 65.5: it will exceed 120 by year-end 2026, 3,100 by the end of 2027, and 45,000 by the end of 2028. This started at 1 on January 1, 2025, just before Trump was inaugurated. AI development is going parabolic even as we speak, sending the world into a state of Future Shock, as Alvin & Heidi Toffler predicted in 1970. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Elon Musk has predicted that AI may outperform humans in every field by 2028. Mus
  
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• Fat Bear Week semi-final results: Backpack and Bear #910 advance to final

  29-09-2026 03:14 via popsci.com
  
  Update, September 28, 2026, 9:13pm EDT: Bear #910 beat Bear #132 and her three cubs in the first semifinal of Fat Bear Week. In the other semifinal match, Bear #164 (Bucky Dent) and Bear #89 (Backpack) went back and forth all day in the closest match so far this year. In the end, Backpack eked out a win and will now face Bear #910 in the final. Voting in the Fat Bear Week final starts tomorrow, September 29, at noon EDT.
  Only four chunky specimens remain in Fat Bear Week 2026. Two ladies with fa
  
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• The Headphone (1) Pro is a whole lotta Nothing, and it’s really something

  29-09-2026 03:00 via popsci.com
  
  Most new wireless active noise-canceling headphones can be explained in a one-pager. Nothing’s new flagship Headphone (1) Pro has, and needs, a 26-page PDF. OK, some of it is splash pages and section dividers, but at least half are a feature-rich showcase of what distinguishes the London-based brand and its mission “to make tech fun and inspire self-expression.” Whether custom EQs that let you tune independent components of a triple-driver array are fun depends on your personal
  
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• Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center

  28-09-2026 21:33 via nytimes.com
  A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
  
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• Bald eagles Shadow and Kaydee share a peaceful morning, Jackie’s memorial service approaches

  28-09-2026 19:00 via popsci.com
  
  As summer melts into the fall, internet-famous bald eagle father Shadow is getting into a bit of a routine with a potential new mate named Kaydee. The two were spotted tucked into the Roost Tree (a tree without a nest where the birds like to perch) after spending the night on the branches. Early in the morning, the pair flew out together. They later appeared on the forest’s Lookout Snag as the morning mist rose over Big Bear Valley.“Kaydee moved closer to Shadow, then stretched her w
  
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• How to help wildlife after a nor’easter

  28-09-2026 18:12 via popsci.com
  
  After killing one person and injuring four, the storm that pummeled the northeastern United States for days is finally winding down. But this early “nor’easter” hasn’t just impacted humans. Its wind, waves, and rain have created problems for local wildlife, too. Here’s what experts at the Cape Wildlife Center in Cape Cod, Massachusetts say you should be keeping an eye out for. Inspect fallen treesWhen removing any trees that were knocked down, it’s import
  
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• Robot dog runs a marathon faster than the average human, all on a single charge

  28-09-2026 17:45 via popsci.com
  
  Engineers in South Korea created a first-of-its-kind robot dog capable of completing a marathon faster than many humans, and it did it all on a single charge. The quadruped, called RAIBO2, ran the 26.2-mile course in the Sangju Dried Persimmon Marathon in Korea in 2024, but details about the event and the robot were recently published in the journal Nature. Custom-built with energy efficiency in mind, RAIBO2 finished the course (with the help of some remote human controllers) in 4 hours, 19 minu
  
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• Fat Bear Week semi-finals: Bucky Dent vs. Backpack and 132 vs. 910

  28-09-2026 16:14 via popsci.com
  
  Only four chunky specimens remain in Fat Bear Week 2026. Two ladies with fascinating backstories, Bear #132 and Bear #910, battle in the first semi-final, while clever big boys Bucky Dent and Backpack face off in the second semifinal.
  Voting opens at 12pm EDT and ends at 9pm EDT (9am-6pm PDT, 8am-5pm AKDT). Read more about the bears battling today below and cast your vote at explore.org. The Fat Bear Week champion will be crowned on September 29.Fat Bear Week bracket, updating September 28. Imag
  
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• 5 ‘trailblazing’ caribou return to Canada’s wilderness

  28-09-2026 16:03 via popsci.com
  
  Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada has five special new inhabitants: one caribou (Rangifer tarandus) bull and four caribou calves. The group is particularly exciting because they were raised through the first conservation breeding program for caribou in North America. Parks Canada released them into Jasper National Park’s Tonquin Valley in June, achieving the breeding program’s first release back into nature. “The four yearlings (calves born last year) and one ad
  
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• The ‘Father of Modern Taxidermy’ wrestled leopards and worked for P.T. Barnum

  28-09-2026 15:03 via popsci.com
  
  Before Carl Akeley came along, natural history museums were somewhat sedate affairs. “You would have, let’s say, the birds of a certain region, all lined up in stiff poses,” says Mark Alvey, who recently retired as a researcher for Chicago’s Field Museum. This sort of taxidermy was purely practical, he explains. “It was for education, so that you could see their anatomy and everything, but it was kind of dull.”This was in the late 19th century, a time whe
  
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• How Scientists Can Shape Public Opinion Over A.I. Risks

  28-09-2026 11:05 via nytimes.com
  Artificial intelligence workers may have leverage to make the world safer.
  
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• NET Zero, AI And Technocracy: What Happens To Freedom In A Surveillance Society?

  28-09-2026 01:13 via technocracy.news
  
  Ordinary Canadian citizens hate their government, and with good reason; the iron teeth of Technocracy are devouring their nation. Oh Canada: “We have our hands full, with either sovereignty, freedom and prosperity or the status to yield, submit and conform into slavery, debt, disease and things worse than death.” For you, it started with Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, who was the Grand Poobah of Technocracy during the 30s and 40s in Canada. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Edit
  
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• Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

  27-09-2026 22:57 via nytimes.com
  An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
  
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• Giant, feathered dinosaur with massive claws and tons of teeth found in China

  27-09-2026 19:03 via popsci.com
  
  Most dinosaurs are pretty weird-looking. But you know a dinosaur must be extra weird looking when paleontologists call it “anatomically bizarre.” That’s the story behind Therizinosauria, a rare group of theropod dinosaurs—flesh-eating species, like Tyrannosaurus rex, along with a few herbivores. And even though therizinosaurs had massive claws, possibly the longest claws ever clocking in at over three feet long(!), these feathered dinos were actually primarily plant eater
  
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• Avengers: Endgame Encore Leads Box Office, Primetime Big Opening Weekend - Variety

  27-09-2026 17:35 via news.google.com
  Avengers: Endgame Encore Leads Box Office, Primetime Big Opening Weekend  Variety‘Avengers: Endgame’ Adds $86 Million At Global Box Office From ‘Encore’ Reissue  TheWrapBox Office: 'Avengers Endgame' Leads Weekend Where Four Films Eye $20M+ Each  Deadline'Avengers: Endgame Encore' sets up 'Doomsday' with 4 new scenes. Here's what happens.  Mashable‘Avengers: Endgame’ Snapping Up $26M at Box Office Amid Crowded Weekend&nb
  
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• Multiple arrests on suspicion of explosives offenses near U.K. base used by U.S. forces - NPR

  27-09-2026 17:02 via news.google.com
  Multiple arrests on suspicion of explosives offenses near U.K. base used by U.S. forces  NPR5 Arrested as Terrorism Suspects Near U.K. Air Base Used by U.S.  The New York TimesTrump Says Suspects Arrested in UK Had Been Under Surveillance  BloombergBomb squad searching vans near U.S. air base in Britain as five men arrested on terror charge  NBC NewsMen arrested in major incident at UK air base used by U.S. forces  CNBC
  
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• Blanche says president has right to restrict access to White House and Air Force One - Politico

  27-09-2026 16:38 via news.google.com
  
  Blanche says president has right to restrict access to White House and Air Force One  PoliticoAG Blanche addresses White House news outlet ban amid litigation, calls access 'a privilege ... not a right'  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosWhite House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee  CNNWhite House Blocks CNN From Covering Trump’s Trip to Tennessee  The New York Times‘You Cannot
  
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