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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026 | MIT Technology Review
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Robots to navigate hiking trails
If you’ve ever gone hiking, you know trails can be challenging and unpredictable. A path that was clear last week might be blocked today by a fallen tree. Poor maintenance, exposed roots,…
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Wolffish teeth contain rare auxetic material that shrinks when squeezed
The teeth of the Atlantic wolffish, a bottom-dwelling predator in the North Atlantic Ocean, are strong enough to crush hard-shelled prey and now new analysis has revealed that their core contains an extremely rare material that helps them…
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Tumba Madžari Great Mother: A boxy goddess figurine from North Macedonia designed to protect Stone Age houses 7,800 years ago
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Name: Tumba Madžari Great Mother
What it is: A clay sculpture
Where it is from: Skopje, North Macedonia
When it was made: Sixth millennium B.C.
In 1981, a clay sculpture called the “Great Mother” was discovered in an ancient village in…
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“We’re too close to the debris”: How SpaceX rockets put passenger planes at risk
When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.
Each time SpaceX did a test run of…
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Astronomers baffled by ‘mysterious disruptor’ with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart
A completely dark and mysterious body with the mass of 1 million suns and a possible black hole heart continues to baffle and intrigue astronomers despite further investigation.
This “mysterious disruptor” is located around 11 billion…
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Woodpeckers’ Secret Strength Revealed—Plus, Flu Surge, AI Sleep Predictions and CES 2026 Trends
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, if it feels like almost everyone you know either has the flu, is…
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10 Ways to Use Embeddings for Tabular ML Tasks
10 Ways to Use Embeddings for Tabular ML Tasks
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Embeddings — vector-based numerical representations of typically unstructured data like text — have been primarily popularized in the field of natural language…
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FairJourney Bio launches cryo-EM services with advanced laboratories in San Diego, USA
FairJourney Bio (FJBio), a leading global provider of antibody discovery and development services, today announced the expansion of its portfolio with the launch of state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) services,…
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When Indigenous knowledge enters the scientific record
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most of Peru’s scientific history, Indigenous knowledge has existed outside the formal record. It shaped how…
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