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• Streamlining the measurement of phonon dispersion

  14-03-2017 16:48
  
  As the interest in renewable energy and energy-efficient devices continues to grow, so has the scientific community's interest in discovering and designing new materials with desirable physical properties that could be used in solar cells or energy storage devices. A key tool in this work is High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (HREELS), which involves exposing a material to a beam of electrons of known kinetic energy. While the electrons lose energy when they bounce off atoms in th
  
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• Trump Christens AI As “Super AI” In The Presence Of Arch-Technocrats

  30-09-2026 06:42 via technocracy.news
  
  Never in my career have I seen any President showcase the leadership of a single industry over and over, in this case, Artificial Intelligence. Trump has emerged as Technocrat-in-Chief, promoting the Arch-Technocrats’ agenda to spread AI throughout society, including in government and to blanket the nation with humongous data centers. None of this adds up today, but in due time we will see the end of the matter. In short, they are racing for the finish line to capture all humanity. ⁃
  
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• Bear #89 (Backpack) wins Fat Bear Week 2026

  30-09-2026 03:04 via popsci.com
  
  A new fat bear head wears the crown. Bear #89 Backpack is officially the champion of Fat Bear Week 2026. Backpack beat Bear #910 in the final round of the bracket-style competition where bear enthusiasts from around the world can vote online for their favorite chunky bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Backpack took the title from last year’s champion, Bear #32 (Chunk). Chunk lost to fishing ace and Katmai newcomer Bear #164 (Bucky Dent) in Round 1, Part 2 on September 24.
  
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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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• FBI sends warning to cybercrime group that hacked it after Dutch arrest of ‘leader’

  29-09-2026 20:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  The FBI said that Dutch law enforcement arrested a leader of ShinyHunters, the group that claimed to have hacked the FBI and stolen information on agents.
  
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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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• Trump says he will sign executive order naming AI as Super Intelligence

  29-09-2026 17:16 via nbcnews.com
  During an event launching the website America.gov, President Trump said that he will be signing an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to super intelligence.
  
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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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• Fat Bear Week 2026 winner: Backpack is your champion!

  29-09-2026 15:18 via popsci.com
  
  Update, September 29, 2026, 9:03pm EDT: Bear #89 (Backpack) has won Fat Bear Week 2026, beating out the Bear #910. Backpack, a 20.5-year-old beefy boy, barely edged out the Dancing Queen to claim the crown in an incredibly close contest. Congrats, Backpack!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 bloodline
  
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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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• Trump Set to Host Top Tech Leaders Amid AI Safety Concerns

  29-09-2026 13:12 via today.com
  President Donald Trump is set to host a group of top tech executives to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. It comes as OpenAI announced it is halting the release of its latest model over safety concerns, saying it showed “higher levels of deception” than its predecessors. NBC’s Monica Alba reports for TODAY.
  
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• After summit with tech titans, Trump calls for ‘tremendous self-regulation’ by AI companies

  29-09-2026 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tech CEOs said they agreed on an AI safety “accord,” but it appeared voluntary. The president also unveiled an AI-powered website, America.gov.
  
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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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• New York Times executive fatally shot by his in-laws in Bay Area park, police say

  28-09-2026 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jonathan McKinsey, head of engineering and games player experiences for the Times, was found on the ground at a park with multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
  
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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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