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| Metal Foam Could Make Cars Safer — Without Adding Weight | 16 Sep 2026 | 00:08:39 | |
New material could change what happens when a car crashes
Newly found metal foam could cut car crash severity by 48% without adding weight
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| The Mathematical Trick That Can Outsmart Wordle | 15 Sep 2026 | 00:08:45 | |
Researchers Use Math to Ensure a Wordle Win 99% of the Time
Scientists Found a Wordle Trick That Solves 99% of Puzzles
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| Kids’ Brains: Distracted on Purpose? | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:06:48 | |
Children’s developing brains have a surprising advantage
Kids' brains are built for distraction. Sometimes that's a good thing
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| The Picasso That Hid in Plain Sight for Eight Years | 11 Sep 2026 | 00:07:06 | |
Original Picasso Stolen 8 Years Ago Found Hanging in Vacant Apartment by Milwaukee Landlord
Picasso print stolen from Milwaukee art gallery in 2018 found by landlord while cleaning apartment
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| The Cicadas That Time Forgot | 10 Sep 2026 | 00:07:42 | |
Forests recovered, but trillions of cicadas may take centuries to return
Periodical cicadas may be doomed to extinction
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| The Lucky Seven: Myrtle Beach’s Penguin Baby Boom | 09 Sep 2026 | 00:08:36 | |
S. Carolina Aquarium Celebrates ‘Baby Boom’ of Critically-Endangered Penguin Chicks
S.C. aquarium celebrates 'Lucky Seven' penguin baby boom
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| Coral Comeback: Can“Good Bacteria” Help Save Reefs From The Heat? | 08 Sep 2026 | 00:07:23 | |
Red Sea Coral Dying From Heat Stress is Being Revived With Probiotics
Scientists revive coral dying from heat using live bacteria
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| Mindfulness, Blood Pressure & The 8-Week Heart Check | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:08:13 | |
Mindfulness may lower blood pressure in just 8 weeks
Mindfulness May Lower Blood Pressure In Eight Weeks, But Regular Practice Appears Key To The Benefits
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| Are You Born This Way? Your DNA Has Something To Say About Your Personality | 04 Sep 2026 | 00:08:13 | |
How much of our personality comes down to genetics?
Anxious or outgoing? Huge study links ‘Big Five’ personality traits to genetic variants
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| Gotta Trade ’Em All: The Pokémon Card Trade That Sparked a Community Rescue Mission | 03 Sep 2026 | 00:09:01 | |
Pokémon Fans Rally to Help Child After He Was Scammed Out of His Most Valuable Card
Pokémon Fans Rally Around Young Fan Scammed at Pokémon XP
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| Can Wi-Fi Recognize You? The Invisible Fingerprint in Your Router | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:08:06 | |
Ordinary Wi-Fi can identify people with nearly 100% accuracy
Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
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| Honey Bees Could Be Tiny Environmental Warning Systems | 01 Sep 2026 | 00:08:42 | |
Honey bees can warn us when an ecosystem is in trouble
Honey bees can serve as sentinels for environmental health
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| 117 Years Young: Ethel Caterham’s Surprisingly Simple Secret to a Long Life | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:06:44 | |
World’s Oldest Person Celebrates 117 Years of a ‘Nonconfrontational’ Approach to Life
World's oldest person celebrates turning 117
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| NASA’s New Cosmic Super-Scanner Is Ready to Launch | 28 Aug 2026 | 00:08:08 | |
NASA is about to launch a powerful new eye on the universe
Ohio State helps NASA mission lift off to scan the cosmos
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| Can Eating Less Help Us Age Better? | 27 Aug 2026 | 00:08:36 | |
Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits
Cutting Calories to Slow Aging—Without Compromising Health
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| Are You an iPhone Brain or an Android Brain? | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:06:58 | |
Is Smartphone Preference a Left or Right Brain Thing?
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| The Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter | 25 Aug 2026 | 00:07:52 | |
A ghostly ribbon of stars reveals hidden dark matter
Astronomers Discover a Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter
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| Dolphins Are Listening to Their Dinner | 24 Aug 2026 | 00:06:52 | |
Dolphins hunt with sound, but their prey may be listening back
Snooping robot reveals how dolphins use sound to hunt and socialize
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| They Literally Struck Gold! A Jackhammer, a Sewer Pipe, and a $10 Million Mystery | 21 Aug 2026 | 00:08:05 | |
Construction Worker Discovers Gold Hoard After Literally Striking a Gold Bar with His Jackhammer
Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls of Belgian property
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| Tomato Golden Hour | 20 Aug 2026 | 00:06:53 | |
Tomatoes beat drought by using water at just the right time
How tomato 'golden hour' research could help crops survive heat waves and drought
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| Two Planes. One Flight Number. One VERY Alert Air Traffic Controller. | 19 Aug 2026 | 00:07:29 | |
Quick Thinking Air Traffic Controller Caught Mistake and Prevented Possible ‘Disastrous’ Incident in Phoenix
Air traffic controller catches two planes with same call sign, averting disaster
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| Starlink Gets a Science Upgrade | 18 Aug 2026 | 00:08:28 | |
Scientists turn Starlink into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere
Starlink Satellites Could Help Scientists Reveal New Details About Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
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| The Creek That Supercharged Young Salmon | 17 Aug 2026 | 00:07:47 | |
California Creek Restoration Helps Young Salmon Grow Twice as Fast—And Doubles Their Survival Rate
Can Habitat Restoration Help Salmon Recover? Prairie Creek Offers Clues
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| The Space Vest That Could Protect Astronauts From Solar Storms | 14 Aug 2026 | 00:08:31 | |
A vest tested on the Artemis I mission blocked some radiation exposure
Radiation-shielding vest aced Artemis I lunar test, could protect astronauts on moon and Mars missions
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| The Manatee Rescue That Took a Village | 13 Aug 2026 | 00:09:32 | |
Fishing Guide Dials 911 for Entangled Manatee, Leading to Rescue While Calf Watches
In Georgia, rescuers free manatee entangled in crab-pot line in first documented case
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| Superintelligence for Everyone? Zuckerberg’s Big AI Bet | 12 Aug 2026 | 00:08:21 | |
Mark Zuckerberg Makes the Case for Superintelligence for Everyone
Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
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| Full-Fat Dairy Strikes Back | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:07:56 | |
Cheese Lovers Unite: The Benefits of Full-Fat Dairy Documented in Study Without Cholesterol Rise or Weight Gain
For decades, we were told to choose low-fat dairy. New research says otherwise
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| The Booze Battle Just Got More Complicated | 10 Aug 2026 | 00:07:01 | |
Wine, beer, or spirits? Massive study finds a surprising health divide
Wine vs. Beer vs. Spirits: Which Drink Is Linked to the Lowest Health Risk?
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| The Secret Traffic Cops of the Forest? Meet the Pumas | 07 Aug 2026 | 00:06:42 | |
Pumas are making roads safer as deer collisions drop 76%
Pumas are saving human lives in Washington State. Camera-trap footage reveals how
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| Mars Just Revealed One of Its Strangest Landscapes Yet | 06 Aug 2026 | 00:06:27 | |
Mars Rover Discovers Mysterious Field of Honeycomb Textures on Red Planet: ‘Took Our Breath Away’
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars
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| Scratched? No Problem! The Self-Healing Contact Lenses of the Future | 05 Aug 2026 | 00:06:40 | |
Contact lenses that repair themselves with UV light
Scientists Just Made Contact Lenses That Fix Their Own Scratches – Without Needing Replacing
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| Your Brain Has Two Habit Switches—And Scientists Just Found Them | 04 Aug 2026 | 00:07:28 | |
Two brain circuits decide how strongly habits stick
Dual Brain Circuits Drive Habit Formation
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| The Cat Who's 31 Years Old—and May Be the World's Oldest | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:07:01 | |
World’s Oldest Cat Drinks Only Spring Water as She Celebrates 31 Years Old
Secret to 31-year-old cat’s long life? Bottled spring water
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| Webb Unlocks the Hidden Heart of a Galaxy | 31 Jul 2026 | 00:06:22 | |
Webb Telescope captures dusty structures and hidden activity in the Centaurus A galaxy
Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A
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| How One Dad's Library Trips Sparked a Movement Called "Library Dads" | 30 Jul 2026 | 00:06:10 | |
Dad Turned Weekly Library Trips with His Daughter into Beloved Community Event: Meet ‘Library Dads’
New Dad Turns Library Trips with Daughter into Weekly Meetup with Dozens of Local Fathers
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| Your Brain Is Secretly Directing Movies Every Night | 29 Jul 2026 | 00:06:30 | |
Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality
Scientists Finally Figured Out What Makes Your Dreams So Weird
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| Your Credit Card Machine May Soon Catch Criminals All by Itself | 28 Jul 2026 | 00:08:11 | |
Card Skimmers Can’t Hide in Verifone Terminals: Radio Signals Now Know
Verifone Patents Security Technology That Lets Payment Terminals Detect Their Own Tampering
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| One Tiny Puffling, One Giant Reason for Hope | 27 Jul 2026 | 00:07:30 | |
First Puffin Chick in 30 Years Spotted Emerging From Cliffs Along England’s South Coast
First puffin chick spotted in over 30 years at shore
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| Bone Detectives: The Underwater Caves Helping Solve Ancient Mysteries | 24 Jul 2026 | 00:06:12 | |
Underwater cave bones offer a new way to study extinct animals
Bone 'fingerprints' unlock hidden stories of underwater caves
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| Coffee, Caffeine & Your Heart: Scientists Just Brewed Up Some Good News | 23 Jul 2026 | 00:08:30 | |
Coffee may protect your heart but energy drinks could harm it
Up to 5 cups of coffee per day may potentially lower heart disease risk, doctors say
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| Three Kids Trapped Under a Capsized Boat...Until an Off-Duty Firefighter Dove In | 22 Jul 2026 | 00:06:16 | |
Off-duty North Texas Firefighter Saves 3 Children Trapped Under Boat on 4th of July
"You can breathe, baby": Off-duty North Texas firefighter saves 3 children from overturned boat on 4th of July
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| Now You See It… Now You Almost Don't: The Phantom Twist Drone | 21 Jul 2026 | 00:06:00 | |
Tiny drone hits invisible mode by twisting faster than eye can detect
New spinning drone hides in plain sight
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| Winter Mode: Scientists Discover the Hidden Genetic Switch That Reprograms Animals for Winter | 20 Jul 2026 | 00:06:13 | |
Animals have a genetic switch that puts them in winter mode
Study reveals a winter version of the biological clock
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| The Ghost Stars Next Door: Hubble Finds Four Hidden Stellar Corpses | 17 Jul 2026 | 00:07:06 | |
Hubble uncovers four hidden dead stars near the Sun
Dead stars in our cosmic backyard: Astronomers spot four white dwarfs hiding under our noses
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| The Personality Secret of People Who Live to 100 | 16 Jul 2026 | 00:06:52 | |
People Who Live to 100 Have One Thing in Common – And It's Not Just Diet
People Who Live to 100 Have One Thing in Common
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| From Junk Drawer to Data Center: Google’s Brilliant Plan for Old Smartphones | 15 Jul 2026 | 00:05:58 | |
Google gets creative with AI recycling
Google Turns Old Phones Into AI Servers to Fight E-Waste
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| The School Bus That Can Power Your Neighborhood | 14 Jul 2026 | 00:06:46 | |
6 New Electric Buses in Colorado Double as Backup Batteries for Denver Area Power Grid
Cherry Creek’s yellow school buses will double as electric power plants
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| Catnip vs. Mosquitoes: The Plant That Could Replace DEET? | 13 Jul 2026 | 00:07:20 | |
Homegrown catnip rivals DEET as mosquito repellent
Catnip lotion works as well as DEET at repelling mosquitoes, study finds
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| Did AI Just Reopen the Hunt for Dark Matter? A Milky Way Mystery Takes a Surprising Turn | 10 Jul 2026 | 00:06:54 | |
The Milky Way’s Mysterious Glow May Be Dark Matter After All
The Milky Way’s weird gamma-ray glow may be dark matter after all
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| The One-Plant Invasion: How a Single Seed Can Conquer an Ecosystem | 09 Jul 2026 | 00:05:17 | |
One plant is all it takes to start an invasive population
Mating strategies shape tropical plants' invasive ability
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