This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of breadbaskets.
More than one-third of the world’s wheat…
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US strikes delayed Iran’s nuclear ambition by years, confirms Tehran
U.S. and Iranian officials have now confirmed that Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been severely damaged following recent Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. The damage is so extensive that US intelligence agencies assert that Iran’s nuclear…
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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
Before Duolingo wiped its videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May, social media engagement was one of the language-learning app’s most recognizable qualities. Its green owl mascot had gone viral multiple times and was well known to younger…
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Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve?
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A Ghostly Radio Halo Just Changed What We Know About the Early Universe
Astronomers using the LOFAR radio array have detected a vast “mini-halo” of high-energy particles around galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, whose light has traveled 10 billion years to reach us. The find doubles the previous distance record and shows…
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Astronomers crown the new “largest structure in the universe”
Move over, Shapley Superstructure; there’s a new champion in town. Astronomers have identified a cosmic filament of matter so vast that it stretches about 1.3 billion light-years – approximately 7.6 sextillion miles – from end to end.
They…
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MIT’s new AI outsmarts human design to help robots jump 41% higher
Scientists are using GenAI models to improve robotic designs and their motions. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) applied generative AI to create working robots. Recent diffusion-based approaches have…
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100 million years ago squids ruled oceans while dinosaurs ruled land
Squids are magnificent creatures which rule the oceans and are known for their camouflage, and also recently it has been found that their remarkable color shifting ability could play a role in generating electricity.
While today squids and…
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Graphene’s strange twist is a boon for true superconductivity: Study
What if a material just a single atom thick could unlock the secrets of superconductivity, and open the door to powerful quantum devices? That’s the promise of a curious phenomenon discovered in specially arranged layers of graphene.
When…
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Star-Shredding Spectacle: NASA Reveals Brightest Black Hole Blasts Since the Big Bang
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts brighter than 100 supernovae. By mixing NASA, ESA, and ground-based data, astronomers caught three of these rare “extreme…
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