At first glance, the 400 acres of soybeans growing on the Preston family’s dairy farm in southern Michigan looks like a typical field. But these aren’t ordinary soybeans. They represent a breakthrough partnership with Michigan State University…
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A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm
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Mystery deepens after Boeing 737 windshield cracked at 36,000 feet
A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing on Thursday after its cockpit windshield cracked at cruising altitude, an extremely rare occurrence that has drawn attention across the aviation…
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How AI can improve storm surge forecasts to help save lives
A hurricane's storm surge can quickly inundate coastal areas. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Hurricanes are America’s most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. Since 1980, these…
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The Download: A promising retina implant, and how climate change affects flowers
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 AWS is recovering from a major outage
It’s racing to get hundreds of apps and services back online. (The Verge)
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SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink internet satellite
On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the…
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Unique marker for pericytes could help forge new path for pulmonary hypertension care
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare condition that’s difficult to treat. The hallmarks of the disease—narrowing of the arterioles and capillaries that deliver blood to the lungs—force the heart to work harder. In severe cases, PAH…
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Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling
Today’s stunning computing power is allowing us to move from human intelligence toward artificial intelligence. And as our machines gain more power, they’re becoming not just tools but decision-makers shaping our future.
But with great power…
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‘It’s really an extraordinary story,’ historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The eerie casts of the victims of the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius paint a desolate picture of the destruction the volcano wrought on ancient cities near modern Naples. Pompeii became a 2,000-year-old time capsule when the city was frozen…
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‘People made it out of the cities alive’: Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted
Around 2,000 years ago, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii and Herculaneum, entombing the two cities and victims within a scorching mix of molten rock, pumice, ash and gas. With the Roman cities frozen in time, archaeologists…
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This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Artificial vision systems have been studied for years and one, called the Argus II, even reached the market and was installed in the eyes of about 400 people. But that product was later withdrawn after it proved to be a money-loser, according to…
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