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Hundreds of new moons are revealing our solar system’s violent history
In the far reaches of the solar system, the planetary neighbourhood seems quiet. Beyond Jupiter, the sun is no...
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Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’
The world’s deepest known whale graveyard has been discovered in the southern Indian Ocean at a depth of 7...
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We Are Crowd-Sourcing the Panopticon
A man raises his phone as police move into a crowd. The video is shaky, loud, immediate. Within minutes, it is online. Within hours, it is everywhere. This is how accountability works now. Something happens, someone records it, and...
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This tiny sensor could help self-driving cars and robots see better in the dark
Penn State researchers have developed a light-adaptive sensor component that could make autonomous vehicle cameras and robots far more reliable in shifting lighting conditions. The work, published Monday in Nature Communications, takes direct cues from how the human eye...
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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead
A woman interred in Scotland 2000 years ago has peculiar scrape marks inside her skull, which suggest that removing...
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There’s Finally Video of a Great White Shark in the Mediterranean
An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The latest sighting, which has attracted media attention and made headlines around the world, occurred during a...
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The Real Tradeoffs Between Startups, Mid-Size Firms, and Giants
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!Early in my...
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CS Degrees Aren’t Dead. The Entry Level Pipeline Is.
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!The CS Degree...
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Robotic Hands Fold Balloon Dogs With Surprising Contact Skills
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This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate amount of attention.Two robotic hands were making a balloon dog....
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Donut Lab’s ‘Solid-State’ Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion – Slashdot
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A battery researcher's investigation, backed by more than 20 independent experts, claims Donut Lab's much-hyped "solid-state" battery is actually a conventional lithium-ion cell, with voltage curves and expansion data matching high-nickel NCM chemistry rather than the promised sodium-ion...
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Asia stock markets slide as tech shares slump
Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday, led by a sell-off in technology firms as investors worried that recent...