Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a new way to produce X-rays with wavelengths in what is called the “water window.” This new method holds promise in making bioimaging X-ray machines smaller…
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Water-window X-rays without a synchrotron: How graphite flakes could shrink bioimaging tools
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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
March 6, 2026
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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say
U.S. lawmakers are moving to delay the International Space Station’s retirement, giving more time for commercial replacements to be built
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What will be the most widely adopted AI solution in 2026?
Companies today are moving from the experimentation stage to the mature adoption of artificial intelligence solutions. At the same time, many organizations are starting 2026 wondering: What will be the most widely adopted AI solution this year?…
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Rethinking the “Goldilocks Zone”: Astronomers May Have Been Looking for Life in the Wrong Places
A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark sides of tidally locked planets or beneath thick ice on distant worlds. For decades, the search for alien life has been…
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‘The biggest losers in all of this are everyday people and civilians in conflict zones’: OpenAI is filling the gap left by Anthropic — but almost left in the same loopholes for mass domestic surveillance
- OpenAI has signed a new contract with the Pentagon
- The contract wording left room for AI to be used for mass domestic surveillance
- Sam Altman is being criticized for his stance on the matter
Following Anthropic’s designation as a supply chain…
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How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery
The official records were a bit of a mess, to say the least, but the ensuing investigation revealed that while the cemetery had space for 130,000 graves, between 140,000 and 147,500 people were listed as buried there. And…
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Space Companies Did Not Pollute Our Night Sky for Billions of Years and Should Not Do So in the… – Avi Loeb – Medium
- Space Companies Did Not Pollute Our Night Sky for Billions of Years and Should Not Do So in the… Avi Loeb – Medium
- Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Scientific American
- A million satellites? Sign…
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Jesse Jackson’s Early HIV/AIDS Advocacy Transformed The Course Of The Disease
Jackson’s advocacy caused a shift in both behavior and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. He helped chart a course of action that led to improved prevention and treatments.
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A quirk of geology explains Iran’s oil—and why it’s stuck in the Persian Gulf
March 6, 2026
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The reason the Middle East has so much oil is the same reason it’s all stuck there now
A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is…
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