NASA’s Curiosity rover has delivered a rare nighttime glimpse of the Martian surface by illuminating a drill site nicknamed Nevado Sajama, offering scientists a fresh way to study Mars after dark. The image, released by NASA Science, was…
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We Found Savings on 9 Winter Emergency Essentials That Every Home Should Have
Between the freezing temperatures, power outages and hazardous driving conditions, winter storms can be particularly dangerous. So if you live somewhere with a chance of blizzards and blackouts like we saw last week, it’s important to keep some…
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Want pink earbuds? Sony may have you covered with the upcoming WF-1000XM6
Sony makes some of the best wireless earbuds you can buy, but its WF-1000XM5 are starting to show their age. Recent leaks suggest that the company could unveil its next-gen WF-1000XM6 as early as February, with updates like support for DSEE…
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MXene hydrogel sensor enables heart and breathing monitoring in endurance sports
Stretchable MXene hydrogel sensor tracks heart rate and respiration during intense exercise, staying stable under heat, humidity, motion, and sweat.
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How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair
For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many residents, the dust that is released there is just part of everyday life—but it can contain natural uranium compounds that…
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Male or female? How one frog gene 'hijacked' sex determination about 20 million years ago
Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) explores how one species of frog evolved its…
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NHTSA to investigate Waymo after an AV hit a child near a Santa Monica school
Waymo’s sensor stack on top of a Waymo autonomous vehicle. | Source: Waymo
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, today said it is opening an investigation into Waymo LLC, a self-driving vehicle developer and subsidiary…
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Massive Undersea Volcanism May Explain Frequent Extinctions in Triassic Period
A team of geologists from China and Australia has found evidence that episodic eruptions from vast marine large igneous provinces (LIPs) drove repeated lower-order extinction events in the Triassic period.
Early Earth. Image credit: Peter…
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Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607
People living on the low-lying shores of the Bristol Channel and Severn estuary began their day like any other on January 30, 1607. The weather was calm. The sky was bright.
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Rethinking Troy: How years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city
Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.
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