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Astronomers report Elias 2-24 b, younger than one million years, as the youngest confirmed exoplanet. The age is inferred from its young star and disk rather than measured...
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Vietnamese operators completed the second phase of the 2G GSM shutdown by 16 September 2026, freeing 900 and 1800 MHz spectrum for 4G and 5G. Special service areas...
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Repeating beds in the Hakatai Shale indicate that the relative strength of Earth’s obliquity and orbital cycles around 1.23 billion years ago differed from today. This is an...
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Combining field, satellite and model data, researchers found eastern Indian Ocean coastal phytoplankton biomass rose 27.0±17.0% during positive IOD phases but fell 13.1±5.2% during negative phases. This does...
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Power-system simulations for 2025–2050 estimate that deep regional integration could lower annual costs by as much as $32 billion around 2045. This is a scenario result shaped by...
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A reconstruction of the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event estimates that about 18,000 petagrams of carbon, mostly magmatic, were released. This is a model-derived total for an ancient event,...
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China formally donated part of the lunar-farside material collected by Chang’e 6 to the UN headquarters in Vienna on 14 September 2026. The exact display-sample mass and research-loan...
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In Copernicus ERA5, global surface air temperature averaged 16.96°C in August 2026, 0.14°C above the previous August records from 2023 and 2024. One month above 1.5°C does not...
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Across roughly 2,800 US bird-survey routes over 15 years, a shift from average to distinctly smokier conditions was associated with about 3% lower species richness in the next...
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Across 29 healthy human tissues, researchers catalogued 7,215 unique single-amino-acid substitutions coexisting with reference proteins. This does not equal 7,215 new genes, disease causes or treatment targets.
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A single surface brain implant decoded intended speech and upper-body gestures from participants with paralysis, turning them into text and avatar movements. This three-person proof of concept is...
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Inverting the shape of a northern Chile ignimbrite suggests the pre-eruption terrain was gentle and rock uplift no faster than 0.26 km per million years. Researchers did not...
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A scattering-aware model constrained the cloud liquid’s decadic absorption coefficient to 1,278 per centimetre at 375 nm. It did not identify the absorber or detect organics or life.
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Across three unrelated families, EFEMP1 p.Arg140Trp tracked with late-onset peripheral retinal degeneration and night blindness. The study does not establish a common cause of eye disease or an...
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Canada’s 2026 national assessment says the country warmed nearly twice as fast as the global average from 1970–2023, and the Canadian Arctic three times as fast. This does...
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A 5,055-metre table made from recycled materials received Guinness certification at a charity gathering of roughly 20,000 people. Attendance and fundraising figures are organiser estimates, separate from the...
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A linked lymphoid organoid and vascular marrow chip let researchers observe plasma-cell migration and survival. It is not a complete body model or a new treatment.
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The method removed over 99.9% of available fluoride and captured 90% as silver fluoride. It is not a finished device for directly cleaning contaminated water.
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An extrapolation suggests the 1947 group could in principle power a flare of a few 10^34 ergs. No superflare occurred then, and this is not a forecast.
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Two 160-million-year-old fossils define Wyoteuthis linsterorum, with a barrel-shaped guard up to 6 cm wide. That width is not the animal’s total body size.
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No Atlantic hurricane had formed by 12 September 2026, a satellite-era record delay. The season is not over and the record is not an all-clear.
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At London’s Science Museum, 934 people simultaneously held the split-finger Vulcan salute for one minute, setting a Guinness World Record. Not all 1,188 people who checked in were...
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Manufacturers placing digital products on the EU market must issue an early warning within 24 hours after learning of an actively exploited vulnerability or severe security incident. The...
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Ancient genomes screened from 183 fossils and 500,000 years of habitat models highlight mid-latitude East Asia and the Altai. The study does not identify one extinction cause.