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• When to See the 'Strawberry Moon,' the Last Supermoon of 2021 - Lifehacker

  21-06-2021 19:30 via news.google.com
  
  When to See the 'Strawberry Moon,' the Last Supermoon of 2021  LifehackerWatching the Skies: First full moon of astronomical summer  WOOD TV8Best times and places to watch the ‘strawberry’ supermoon  KTVI Fox 2 St. LouisA full strawberry moon plus much more this week up in the sky  WHSVNew Strawberry Supermoon Doughnut Available At Krispy Kreme For One Day Only On June 24, 2021  Chew BoomView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Wildlife camera in Guatemala captures a once-in-a-decade snapshot

  04-10-2026 16:08 via popsci.com
  
  They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But these new camera trap photographs of a jaguar (Panthera onca) in Guatemala are worth even more, according to conservationists. The camera trap photographs of a male jaguar indicate that jaguars are making use of a wildlife corridor connecting Guatemala and Honduras, proving that the important pathway continues to link jaguar populations in the face of human encroachment into their habitat. In other words, jaguars are still on the move, accor
  
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• What’s the point of beards?

  04-10-2026 14:03 via popsci.com
  
  Charles Darwin—a man who is usually pictured sporting sideburns or a massive beard—famously suggested that male facial hair is like a peacock’s tail, “an ornament to charm or excite the opposite sex.”As brilliant a scientist as he was, Darwin may not have been entirely right.Do beards and mustaches make men more attractive?In a study published in 2012, researchers asked women from two very different ethnic groups, Europeans from New Zealand and Polynesians from Samo
  
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• Extreme Human Traits May Have a Simple Genetic Explanation

  04-10-2026 04:14 via scitechdaily.com
  A study of dozens of human traits suggests that genetic architecture may shift at the extremes. People with unusually high or low cholesterol, blood glucose, body size, and other measurable traits may sometimes have a simpler genetic explanation than scientists have assumed. A new study suggests that rare genetic variants with relatively large effects could [...]
  
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• AI Can Detect Hidden Signs of Aging in the 3D Architecture of DNA

  04-10-2026 03:39 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers have developed an AI system that can detect subtle, age-related changes in the three-dimensional organization of DNA inside mouse blood stem cells. As we grow older, our bodies gradually become less able to produce an adequate supply of blood cells. This decline affects the hematopoietic system, the network of organs and tissues responsible for [...]
  
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• Scientists Found a Hairy-Legged Sea Spider With a Nightmare Mouth

  04-10-2026 03:04 via scitechdaily.com
  Two newly described Salish Sea spiders reveal bizarre grooming and parasite-filled lifestyles while helping close a nearly century-long gap in regional marine biodiversity. Imagine diving into the cold waters off the Pacific Northwest coast and bumping into a tiny creature with bright red eyes, hairy feet, and a three-lipped mouth that resembles a miniature Sarlacc [...]
  
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• Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How the First Stars Changed the Universe

  04-10-2026 00:58 via scitechdaily.com
  A new generation of simulations is uncovering how starlight, gas, and chemistry interacted in the infant Universe. The first stars transformed a Universe made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Their light altered surrounding gas, while their explosions scattered newly forged elements that later became part of stars, planets, and eventually life. Researchers are now recreating [...]
  
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• A New Way To Engineer Heat Could Revolutionize Energy and Electronics

  04-10-2026 00:23 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have demonstrated a new way to dramatically enhance heat transfer across nanoscale gaps using engineered metamaterials. Heat can cross a tiny vacuum gap far more efficiently than ordinary thermal radiation would suggest. Researchers have now shown that carefully patterned metamaterials can amplify this nanoscale energy flow by as much as four times, offering experimental [...]
  
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• Ghost Particles May Decide Whether a Dying Star Explodes or Becomes a Black Hole

  03-10-2026 23:48 via scitechdaily.com
  The fate of a dying massive star may depend on more than its mass and internal structure. A massive star does not always go out in a brilliant supernova. Some instead collapse into black holes, potentially with little or no visible explosion. What determines which path a dying star takes remains one of the major [...]
  
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• 13 unbelievable child car seats from the past century

  03-10-2026 21:03 via popsci.com
  
  Every year, car seats save countless children’s lives. When used correctly, these plush little chairs can reduce the risk of death by up to 71 percent for small humans. That’s really important, especially considering that car crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages one to 13. But it has taken decades of innovation for car seats to become the safe automobile accessories they are today. The early days of children’s car seats were less about safety and more a
  
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• 3 useful ways AI can improve your photos in iOS 27

  03-10-2026 19:00 via popsci.com
  
  Apple’s latest iOS 27 update brings a bunch of useful upgrades, including the new and improved Siri AI app, and the Photos app isn’t left out. Released alongside the new iPhones, iOS 27 brings even more options for organizing and editing your pictures and videos, many of them involving a little AI magic.Here we’re going to look at two brand-new options in iOS 27, plus a related AI-powered feature that was introduced in the previous iOS 18 update and has been improved with the l
  
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• Scientists Find a Possible Way To Interrupt Stomach Cancer Before It Begins

  03-10-2026 18:32 via scitechdaily.com
  A common stomach bacterium may trigger a developmental repair program that pushes gastric tissue toward a precancerous state. Stomach cancer often begins years before a tumor can be detected. During that long interval, the stomach lining can undergo a series of molecular and cellular changes that gradually push healthy tissue toward a precancerous state. Scientists [...]
  
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• Cancer Drugs Could Be Our Next Big Weapon Against Malaria

  03-10-2026 17:57 via scitechdaily.com
  Laboratory tests found that the compounds could kill the malaria parasite both when it causes symptoms in people and when it reaches the stage that can infect mosquitoes. Inside an infected person, the malaria parasite does not stay in one form. It multiplies in blood cells, producing the fever associated with the disease, and later [...]
  
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• Popular GLP-1 Drugs Linked to an Overlooked Side Effect Involving Nails

  03-10-2026 17:22 via scitechdaily.com
  A large multinational study has linked GLP-1 receptor agonist use with a notably higher prevalence of nail disorders, including detachment and discoloration. People taking GLP-1 receptor agonists reported substantially more nail, hair, and scalp problems than comparable adults with obesity or type 2 diabetes who had never used the drugs, according to two multinational studies [...]
  
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• Diet Drinks May Be Just as Effective as Water for Weight Loss, Offering an Alternative to Sugar‑Sweetened Drinks

  03-10-2026 16:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how the longest clinical trial of its kind found people who drank non-nutritive sweetened beverages lost as much wight over two years as those who drank water.
  
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• Common Metal Could Unlock a Cheaper Path to Quantum Materials

  03-10-2026 14:15 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers have created a cobalt-based thin film in which local honeycomb structures generate strong magnetic interactions linked to Kitaev-type quantum materials. A common metal may offer a cheaper route to materials used in quantum research. Scientists created a thin film in which cobalt atoms form local honeycomb patterns and generate strong magnetic interactions linked to [...]
  
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• Whales can’t hear each other in the noisy ocean. This inventor has a solution 200 years in the making.

  03-10-2026 14:01 via popsci.com
  
  When most people think of noise pollution, the image conjured up is one of concrete buildings and crowded streets bursting with beeping car horns and screeching industrial tools. But there’s another flavor of noise pollution happening underwater, across the world’s oceans, and it’s taking an even worse toll on its inhabitants. The constant hum from human-made inventions (think massive shipping boats, deep-sea mining, and offshore oil rigs) has radically transformed the sou
  
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• Scientists Directly Observe the Hidden Geometry of Electrons

  03-10-2026 13:40 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have directly observed a subtle geometric property of electrons in a three-dimensional topological insulator. Electrons moving across the surface of a topological insulator do more than carry electric charge. Their quantum states also possess a geometric structure that can influence how the material behaves. Researchers have now directly observed one measure of that structure, [...]
  
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• This “Atomic Cannon” Could Challenge Einstein’s Theory of Gravity

  03-10-2026 13:05 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists have built an “atomic cannon” to test whether exotic matter falls as Einstein’s theory predicts. Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen have created a tightly controlled beam of muonium, an unusual atom containing an electron and an antimuon. Their advance, described in Nature Physics, clears a major obstacle [...]
  
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• New tech promises to lift entire cities and roads above flood waters

  03-10-2026 03:20 via nbcnews.com
  A Bay Area startup is building "mechanical bison"—autonomous robots that inject woodchips 60 feet deep to literally raise sinking land. Father-son inventors hope this terraforming tech can save flood-prone cities from rising sea levels.
  
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• Biologists Discover a Cellular Pathway That Helps Colorectal Cancer Spread

  03-10-2026 01:14 via scitechdaily.com
  Obesity may boost activity in a tissue repair pathway that helps colon cancer spread, offering a potential target for drugs to prevent metastasis. Most colon cancer deaths occur when tumor cells spread beyond the primary site to invade other organs, most frequently the liver followed by the lungs, in a process called metastasis. In the [...]
  
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• Cannabis Users More Likely to Commit and Experience Violence, Study Finds

  03-10-2026 00:39 via scitechdaily.com
  A large review links cannabis use with higher rates of both committing and experiencing violence, although it cannot establish that cannabis itself is the cause. As cannabis becomes more commercialized and legalized around the world, discussion of its risks has largely focused on what happens to the person using it. Violence adds another dimension because [...]
  
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• A Surprising Brain Signal Could Explain Why Eating Less Protein Extends Lifespan

  03-10-2026 00:04 via scitechdaily.com
  A new paper suggests that limiting protein intake triggers a coordinated response throughout the body that may help explain how protein restriction affects healthy aging. Animals respond to protein restriction, or reduced protein in their diet, by changing how they use energy, grow, and choose food. These adjustments may also help explain why eating less [...]
  
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• Radio Emission Detected from Massive Exoplanet Reveals a Magnetic Field Far Stronger Than Earth's

  03-10-2026 00:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn about the first-ever radio signal detected from an exoplanet, a discovery that may have important implications for understanding magnetic fields. 
  
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• Tiny Hair Bundles Across Squid Skin May Help Explain Human Hearing Loss

  02-10-2026 23:40 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how squid sense water movement with tiny hair bundles, and what those structures could teach us about human hearing.
  
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• New Baby Colobus Monkey at Lincoln Park Zoo has a Bright Pink Face and Stark White Fur 

  02-10-2026 22:40 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn how a newborn's white coat helps relatives keep track of him as he grows into his adult black-and-white coloring. 
  
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• A Few Picoseconds Reveal Superconductivity’s Hidden Breaking Point

  02-10-2026 21:41 via scitechdaily.com
  Ultrafast current pulses let scientists push superconductors beyond their usual experimental limits before vortices and heat could interfere. The method revealed striking differences in how two superconducting materials break down and could expose quantum behavior that conventional measurements miss. Superconductivity is one of the most remarkable behaviors found in quantum materials. When some materials are [...]
  
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• How to Watch For Bats at Night, Build Your Own Rain Barrel, Mine Your Own Gems, and Track the ISS as It Flies By 

  02-10-2026 21:32 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Check out September's roundup of science tips and learn more about the natural world around you.
  
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• 76,000 lighthouses shine in interactive atlas

  02-10-2026 21:30 via popsci.com
  
  While the earliest lighthouses were little more than large bonfires on hilltops, their underlying principle has always been the same for thousands of years. These towering coastal sentinels have helped sailors from around the world navigate vast oceans, avoid dangerous shoals, and sometimes simply find their way home. However, it’s sometimes difficult to comprehend just how crucial the buildings remain for maritime crews—but one fascinating (and frequently hypnotic) online mapping pr
  
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• Mars’ North Polar Ice Is Much Cleaner Than Scientists Thought

  02-10-2026 21:06 via scitechdaily.com
  Beneath the dusty surface of Mars’ north pole, scientists have uncovered surprisingly clean layers of ice that may preserve a hidden record of the planet’s dramatic climate history. Earth maintains a relatively steady posture in space thanks to the gravitational anchor of a massive moon. Mars lacks that stability. Tugged only by two tiny moons, [...]
  
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