Learning how to take forsythia cuttings in summer is one of the easiest ways to double your shrub collection (at zero cost). While softwood cuttings can be taken in spring, when forsythias are producing plenty of fresh growth, semi-ripe cuttings…
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Apple’s AI Ambitions Leave Big Questions Over Its Climate Goals
“A year ago, when they were talking about Apple Intelligence, it struck me how they were doing an ‘all of the above,’ right? They had their own thing but they could fall back onto ChatGPT,” says Ben Lee, a professor at the University of…
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Quantum deception attempts turning water into wine | Opinion
The Stockholm papyrus, a manuscript acquired (don’t ask how) by the Swedish vice-consul in Alexandria in 1828, is one of the richest sources of knowledge about the alchemical arts in antiquity. Thought to have been written around 300AD, it…
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Inside Dog Longevity Startup Loyal
What if dogs could live longer and healthier lives? Loyal’s Celine Halioua has raised $135 million from top investors to develop canine longevity pills—and expects to get her first conditional approval from the FDA next year.
Dogs don’t…
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Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2025
Artificial intelligence dominates this year’s list of 25 venture-backed startups we think most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation.
Edited by Amy Feldman, Forbes Staff
Editorial Operations: Elisabeth Brier
Reporters: Emily Baker-White,…
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Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has had his final orbit • The Register
Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.
Jim Lovell reads a newspaper after the Apollo 13 mission (Pic: NASA)
Lovell was selected as part of the second group of NASA astronauts…
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I’m a physicist who studies fossils, and I recently discovered preserved blood vessels in the world’s largest T. rex
Despite the fact that much of the current research in paleontology focuses on trying to find traces of organic remains in fossils, dinosaur DNA has unfortunately never been recovered.
A lot of what we know about dinosaurs comes from…
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Cutting sugar won’t curb your sweet tooth, scientists say
Turns out, your sweet tooth may not be shaped by your diet. Findings from a new randomized controlled trial suggest that eating more sweet-tasting foods doesn’t increase someone’s preference for sweet tastes.
The researchers found that after six…
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Final ‘planet parade’ of 2025 rises Sunday: How to see the full 6-planet show.
Six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will appear in a dark night sky together for almost a week, beginning Sunday, Aug. 17. The fairly rare “planetary parade,” which is sometimes mistakenly called a planetary…
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Crushing Oxygen into a Spin Liquid
• Physics 18, s101
New evidence supports the idea that solid oxygen switches under pressure to an exotic entangled state.
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In gaseous or liquid oxygen, the two unpaired electrons in…
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