On a Saturday afternoon this past March, a piece of the solar system plummeted toward a home in north Houston.
The one-ton space rock broke apart nearly 30 miles…
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Inside 2026’s Massive Fireball Surge
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Taming the acid clouds with a new blueprint for making fuel on Venus
Researchers propose a modular system combining gas filtration, enrichment, and laser spectroscopy for trace gas detection and resource extraction on Venus.
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He suddenly couldn’t speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronaut who prompted NASA’s first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don’t know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.
Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he…
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Your BMI Might Be Wrong: Study Finds Millions Are Misclassified
BMI might be misleading millions about their true health status. New research from Italy, set to be presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-15 May) and published in Nutrients, suggests that the widely used…
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BMI classification system wrongly identifies some people as having overweight or obesity, says study
Research from Italy to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye, 12–15 May) and published in the journal Nutrients shows that when the gold standard technique of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry…
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Study finds wearable data may help predict patient engagement in remote COPD rehabilitation
Sleep data captured with a wearable device could help clinicians better tailor care by identifying patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who may need additional support to participate in pulmonary rehabilitation, according to…
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Quasi-liquid layer controls growth mechanisms of ice-like materials
Clathrate hydrates are crystalline structures formed at the bottom of seafloors, created by water molecules trapping methane, carbon dioxide or other molecules. While these materials are underutilized in technology, a University of Oklahoma…
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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini’s…
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Ultrafast microscopy sheds light on metallic nanoframe behavior
Argonne and Northwestern University scientists teamed up to understand how light interacts with metallic nanoframes, with implications for biosensing, quantum information science and beyond.
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AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better known as NeurIPS—became the latest organization this week to become embroiled in a growing clash between geopolitics and global…
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