Key Takeaways About the Moon’s Time Standard
- Moon time is moving by about 56 to 59 microseconds (millionths of a second) each day faster than it is on Earth. After 46.5 years, that comes out to about one second.
- The moon experiences more time…
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The Moon’s Clock Runs Faster — and It May Need Its Own Time Standard
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Mathematicians launch First Proof, a first-of-its-kind math exam for AI
February 9, 2026
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Mathematicians issue a major challenge to AI: Show us your work
Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has…
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlighted Puerto Rico’s power grid. Here’s why
February 9, 2026
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show highlighted Puerto Rico’s power grid. Here’s why
Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a power-line-themed set, drawing…
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Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon
The whole experiment reminded our senior editor for AI, Will Douglas Heaven, of something far less interesting: Pokémon.
Back in 2014, someone set up a game of Pokémon in which the main character could be controlled by anyone on the internet…
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Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a…
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Physicists clarify key mechanism behind energy release in molybdenum-93
A team of physicists from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has identified the dominant physical mechanism responsible for energy release in the nuclear isomer molybdenum-93m…
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Stellar remnants solve the mystery of missing mass in galaxy clusters
Scientists discovered that galaxy clusters are about twice as heavy as previously assumed. The additional mass comes mainly from neutron stars and stellar black holes and also explains the observed quantities of heavy elements.
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Diamond quantum sensors detect immune cell inflammation through electric charge shifts
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond nanoparticles can now detect inflammatory activation in individual immune cells by measuring shifts in a quantum property driven by electric charge transfer between the diamond and its surroundings. Bare…
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Why walking in a national park in the dark prompts people to turn off lights at home
As soon as you drive over the top of the Peak District and down into Sheffield you can see the light pollution—and it’s horrible, said a participant in a research project into darkness and light pollution.
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Dinosaurs Were Speed Demons, New Fossil Footprints Prove They Could Sprint Like Athletes!
Newly discovered fossilized footprints in Mongolia reveal that some dinosaurs could run at speeds rivaling top cyclists. This surprising discovery is changing how scientists think about dinosaur movement and confirms long-standing theories…
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