A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call “damped harmonic oscillators” and are well understood in terms of…
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Loughareema: The ‘vanishing lake’ in Northern Ireland that mysteriously drains and refills itself within hours
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Name: Loughareema, or The Vanishing Lake
Location: County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 55.157034137386944, -6.1079272599514285
Why it’s incredible: The lake can disappear in just hours.
Loughareema, or The Vanishing Lake, is an…
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Rocket Lab inaugurates Neutron launch pad
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — Rocket Lab moved a step closer to the first launch of its Neutron rocket Aug. 28 with the formal opening of the vehicle’s launch site.
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Scientists Reverse Dementia-Like Memory Loss in Mice by Supercharging Brain Cells : ScienceAlert
By boosting the activity of cellular ‘power stations’ in the brains of mice with a dementia-like condition, an international team of researchers has reversed pathological memory loss.
Problems with energy-producing cellular structures called…
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Inflammation marker can help identify heart risk in women without traditional factors
Cardiologists have long known that up to half of all heart attacks and strokes occur among apparently healthy individuals who do not smoke and do not have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, the “standard modifiable…
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What 100 Years of Quantum Physics Has Taught Us about Reality—And Ourselves
This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed the extra publicity, though.
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Scientists cram an entire computer into a single fiber of clothing — and you can even put it through your washing machine
Scientists have incorporated key computing components into a single, flexible fiber that you can run through your washing machine. The researchers hope to one day weave together many of these fibers into a cohesive “fiber computing” network —…
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Subliminal Learning Lets Student AI Models Learn Unexpected (and Sometimes Misaligned) Traits from Their Teachers
August 29, 2025
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Student AIs Pick Up Unexpected Traits from Teachers through Subliminal Learning
AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a love of owls to something more dangerous
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The State of Voice AI in 2025: Trends, Breakthroughs, and Market Leaders
The year 2025 marks a turning point for Voice AI Agents, with technology reaching levels of naturalness, context-awareness, and commercial adoption that were unimaginable a decade ago. Powered by massive advances in speech…
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Signaling mechanisms driving olfactory neurogenesis in zebrafish
Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including division, to create more cells; fate determination, which is a commitment to a specific lineage or developmental path; and migration, to…
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