The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare…
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Sun erupts with powerful X-class flare as huge CME races toward Earth, impact possible within 24 hours
Full-halo CME from the X1.9 flare. The three bright specks of light (left to right) are Venus, Mercury and Mars. (Image credit: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center) -
EPA rule sparks air quality concerns, cancer survival hits record high, and NASA executes historic space evacuation
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.
First up, earlier this month the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
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Sequoia’s big bet on Anthropic
Venture capital powerhouse Sequoia Capital is preparing to invest in Anthropic, the AI startup best known for its Claude family of large language models, in one of the largest private funding rounds in tech this year. The deal is being led by…
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Proba-3: our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona
The Sun’s inner corona, the hottest part of our star’s atmosphere, appears faint yellow in this time-lapse made from images taken by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3.
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission consists of two…
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Atomic force microscopy reveals nanoscopic raft dynamics on cell membranes
By combining atomic force microscopy (AFM) with a Hadamard product-based image reconstruction algorithm, scientists successfully visualized the nanoscopic dynamics of membrane rafts in live cells.
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, S26 Plus Coming to India Soon: Expected Price and Specifications
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra is already generating strong buzz ahead of any official announcement, with new leaks suggesting a launch as early as next month. Rather than dramatic design changes, Samsung appears to be focusing…
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Solving AI’s energy challenge: sustainable data centers for a competitive UK future
The world is racing to harness AI’s transformative potential, but this revolution comes with a stark reality: AI’s energy appetite is enormous and growing rapidly.
Building AI infrastructure efficiently and meeting net-zero commitments is…
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New research shows emotional expressions work differently in autism
A new study suggests that autistic and non-autistic people use their faces to show emotions in different ways. These differences may help explain why emotional expressions are sometimes misunderstood between the two groups.
Researchers at the…
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Quantum engineers turn theory into physics via exciton control path
Research led by scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and Stanford University has demonstrated a new approach to Floquet engineering using excitons rather than photons. Floquet engineering is a field of physics in…
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You can switch PS5 to Xbox in five seconds on this 3-in-1 gaming console
A YouTube builder has turned platform hopping into a button press. The Ningtendo PXBOX 5 is a 3-in-1 gaming console that combines PS5, Xbox, and Switch 2 hardware in a single tower, then lets you cycle between platforms in under five…
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