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In 1938 the average American spent 47 minutes a day doing nothing — by 2026 that number had almost vanished, and researchers say that lost time was never idle, it was when the brain did its most important work
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Sam Altman said he was ‘pretty wrong’ about the jobs apocalypse — and ‘roughly right’ about everything else — four days after OpenAI filed for a trillion-dollar IPO
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Brussels just quietly carved out two-thirds of a key satellite band for European operators, and the move is really a direct shot at Starlink’s phone-to-satellite ambitions
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New evidence suggests Saturn’s rings are younger than the dinosaurs — and for most of the planet’s history, the Saturn you picture may never have existed
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A single aspen grove in Utah called Pando is one organism sharing a 106-acre root system and 47,000 genetically identical trunks, weighs roughly 6,000 tons, and has been quietly cloning itself for somewhere between 9,000 and 80,000 years while every visible trunk above it lives and dies on a 130-year cycle.
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In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in space — and somewhere in the middle of the live broadcast, while the world was watching the Soviet Union’s greatest propaganda triumph, mission control quietly cut the feed, for reasons that wouldn’t be publicly known for almost thirty years
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The copper canisters Finland chose to seal its nuclear waste are expected by some scientists to begin corroding within centuries — but the engineers buried them anyway at 430 metres, because the 1.9-billion-year-old rock surrounding them was there before complex life existed on Earth
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A new meta-analysis suggests omega-3 may reduce both hot-headed reactive aggression and the cooler, planned kind — and researchers say the finding is consistent across demographics
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Brain scans of new fathers show measurable changes — which might explain why so many dads describe the first year of parenthood as feeling like learning to be a different person
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Psilocybin research is no longer just for hard-to-treat cases — a new trial targeted recurrent depression in people who had not failed standard treatment, and the results are promising
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Embedded in the Voyager Golden Record’s Sounds of Earth montage are the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, recorded soon after she fell in love with Carl Sagan — a private meditation on human experience now drifting through interstellar space, waiting for a listener who may never come.
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The gold in an ordinary wedding ring was not made on Earth, or even inside an ordinary star, but in the most violent events in the universe, the collisions of dead stars and the flares of magnetised neutron stars, long before the Sun was born and the cloud that became our solar system took shape.
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The science of why some people seem to age dramatically slower than others is mostly the science of one thing — cumulative sun exposure — and what looks like good genes in someone’s seventies is usually fifty years of quiet sun protection that nobody, including the person, ever consciously planned
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When a Scottish sheep named Dolly was born on July 5, 1996 — cloned from a single cell taken from the udder of a six-year-old Finn Dorset ewe — she became the first mammal ever produced from an adult body cell, proving something developmental biologists had spent decades insisting was impossible
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In a Beijing laboratory, 25 volunteers spent a week learning to fly with feathered virtual-reality wings — flapping to stay aloft, swerving through rings, swatting falling balls — and by the end, their brains were processing images of wings the same way they process images of real human limbs
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In 2018, a Chinese biophysicist announced he had gene-edited twin girls using CRISPR. The scientific consensus is that what he actually did was something else
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Thought of the day by Albert Einstein: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”
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In 1811, the planners of Manhattan’s street grid accidentally built one of the largest sun-aligned monuments in the world — and four times a year, the setting sun lines up perfectly with the city’s east-west streets, in an event Neil deGrasse Tyson named Manhattanhenge
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Social science has a replication problem — a new massive study found that only half of published findings hold up when researchers try to repeat them and many that made it into textbooks
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Earth is quietly dusted with thousands of tonnes of space material every year, most of it as grains smaller than sand — and some of it can be sifted from the grit of ordinary roof gutters, tiny meteorites hiding in plain sight in cities.
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75% of Americans say they would trust AI shopping recommendations less if results were sponsored — which means OpenAI just made a decision that could structurally damage the thing that makes it valuable
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The makers of the Voyager Golden Record could not assume an alien would understand minutes or seconds, so the playback speed engraved on its cover is defined against a single, unchanging frequency of the hydrogen atom — a clock written into the physics of the universe.
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Neptune was found not by anyone scanning the night sky but by mathematics — Urbain Le Verrier noticed Uranus being tugged off its predicted path, worked out where the hidden planet had to be, and astronomers in Berlin who pointed a telescope at that patch of sky found Neptune within a degree of his prediction that same night.
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When Vera Rubin measured the spin of galaxies, she found their outer stars moving so fast that visible matter alone could not hold them in place — one of the clearest early signs that most of every galaxy is made of something nobody has ever seen.
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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.
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NOAA has placed an 82 per cent probability that El Niño will emerge in the central Pacific between May and July 2026, the climate state that in 1997-98 caused more than 20,000 deaths worldwide and approximately US$36 billion in damage, that in 2015-16 produced what was then the warmest year on record and the most extensive Amazon drought yet measured, and that has accompanied every one of the ten warmest years in the global temperature record, all of which have occurred since 2015
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In 1964, a quiet British physicist named Peter Higgs proposed the existence of an invisible field permeating the entire universe — the thing that gives every particle of matter its mass — and it took another 48 years before scientists at CERN finally proved he was right, in a discovery that completed our most fundamental theory of how the universe is built
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The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all
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In 1992, the number of confirmed planets outside our solar system was zero — and as of this year, NASA’s exoplanet archive lists more than 6,000 of them, with the lead scientist on the archive predicting the number could hit 100,000 within the next seven years
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There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that when the International Space Station passes overhead, the nearest human beings may be the astronauts in orbit — not anyone on land.
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