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Saturn's moon Titan could have formed in a merger of two old moons
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Saturn's moon Titan could have formed in a merger of two old moons
Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of S...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Video: The Rise, Chaos, and Traumatic End of ALF [15:36]
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The Rise, CHAOS, and Traumatic End of ALF
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February 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Every Eye Has a Hidden Blind Spot. Scientists Think It’ll Reveal the True Nature of Consciousness
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Every Eye Has a Hidden Blind Spot. Scientists Think It’ll Reveal the True Nature of Consciousness
The human eye contains a blind spot at the back of the eye where the optic nerve and retinal blood enter and exit, but our brains are able to fill in the spot.
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February 12, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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Western US gripped by extreme snow drought: ‘I’ve never seen a winter like this’
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Western US gripped by extreme snow drought: ‘I’ve never seen a winter like this’
States brace for less water and fire risks as Oregon, Colorado and Utah report lowest statewide snowpack since 1980s
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February 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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'An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me'
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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February 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Video: The Skyscraper That Ruined Paris [15:38]
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The Skyscraper That Ruined Paris
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February 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Economist: The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
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February 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Meet the Sea Walnut — A Cannibalistic Jelly Currently Invading Venice’s Lagoon
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Meet the Sea Walnut — A Cannibalistic Jelly Currently Invading Venice’s Lagoon
Learn how the comb jelly is taking over the Mediterranean, threatening local marine life and expected to only worsen with a changing climate.
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February 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
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February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Paleontologists Find Traces of Chitin in Cambrian Trilobite Fossil
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Paleontologists Find Traces of Chitin in Cambrian Trilobite Fossil | Sci.News
The detection of chitin in an Olenellus trilobite from the Carrara Formation (514.5 to 506.5 million years ago) of California, the United States, not only demonstrates that this structural polymer mig...
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February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Only humans have chins: Study shows it's an evolutionary accident
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Only humans have chins: Study shows it's an evolutionary accident
Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin was among the facial features Hammett used to describe his fictional detect...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
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Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water | Quanta Magazine
We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking abo...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Could the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole actually be a clump of dark matter?
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Could the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole actually be a clump of dark matter?
"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the galaxy's dark matter halo are two manifestations of the same, continuous sub...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Video: Orangutan Communication is Eerily Similar to Ours [7:56]
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Orangutan Communication is Eerily Similar to Ours
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February 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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'Fabled knights of old': The true story of Japan's mysterious samurai
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'Fabled knights of old': The true story of Japan's mysterious samurai
From medieval beginnings, the samurai have inspired art, fiction and films, from Shōgun to Star Wars. But their true story is more complex and surprising than we might realise.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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A timeline of Earth's average temperature
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February 12, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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The Clean Energy Transition at the Salton Sea
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The Clean Energy Transition at the Salton Sea
California holds vast stores of lithium. But mining projects stir debate over environmental costs and economic benefits.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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How a Worried Mom Created One of the Most Versatile Inventions
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How a Worried Mom Created One of the Most Versatile Inventions
How a Worried Mom Created One of the Most Versatile Inventions: Duct tape wouldn’t exist without Vesta Stoudt.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
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February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Forgotten hand tool rewrites ancient Egyptian history
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Forgotten hand tool rewrites ancient Egyptian history
A ‘little awl’ discovered nearly 100 years ago has big implications.
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February 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Edward Teller Tried to Move Mountains With Nuclear Bombs
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Edward Teller Tried to Move Mountains With Nuclear Bombs
Edward Teller Tried to Move Mountains With Nuclear Bombs: The father of the H-bomb hoped to put these blasts toward civilian infrastructure.
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February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Archaeologists Decode Ancient Tablet That Says 'A King Will Die'
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Archaeologists Finally Decoded a 4,000-Year-Old Tablet—and It Warns, ‘A King Will Die’
Hope that guy got the message.
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February 11, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Video: An immigration lawyer explains the constitutional problems with ICE [35:07]
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Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE?
YouTube video by Moon Channel
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February 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
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These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
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February 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum
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Hidden passage linked to Underground Railroad found in New York museum
Small opening cut into floor at Merchant’s House Museum indicates site was probably used as ‘safe house’, experts say
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February 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM