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Australian police smash e-bikes in crackdown on unruly teens
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Deer markings actually glow
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Iron Age teeth reveal the hidden lives of ancient Italians
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100 mystery sounds under review for signs of extraterrestrial life
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The post 100 mystery sounds under review for signs of extraterrestrial life appeared first on Popular Science.
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14,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros DNA extracted from wolf’s stomach
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The post 14,000-year-old woolly rhinoceros DNA extracted from wolf’s stomach appeared first on Popular Science.
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Why is okra so slimy? Blame the mucilage.
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The post Why is okra so slimy? Blame the mucilage. appeared first on Popular Science.
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2026-01-13T15:48:08-05:00
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Medieval plague victims likely found in mass grave in Germany
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The post Medieval plague victims likely found in mass grave in Germany appeared first on Popular Science.
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Amazon is blowing out LEVOIT air purifiers so you can filter out irritants
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The post Amazon is blowing out LEVOIT air purifiers so you can filter out irritants appeared first on Popular Science.
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Is it illegal to own an axolotl? It depends.
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The post Is it illegal to own an axolotl? It depends. appeared first on Popular Science.
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2026-01-13T11:55:19-05:00
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Father and son reclaim Guinness World Record for fastest quadcopter drone
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The post Father and son reclaim Guinness World Record for fastest quadcopter drone appeared first on Popular Science.
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https://www.popsci.com/technology/fastest-quadcopter-drone-father-son/
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2026-01-13T10:38:00-05:00
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Abandoned pigs rescued on Tennessee’s Looney Islands
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The post Abandoned pigs rescued on Tennessee’s Looney Islands appeared first on Popular Science.
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2026-01-13T09:01:00-05:00
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In medieval France, murderous pigs faced trial and execution
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2026-01-15T16:00:00-05:00
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Dagashiya Game Museum in Itabashi City, Japan
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Arcades are a thing of the past in most of the west but still quite alive in Japan, though mostly as modern facilities with digital games. But how did arcades look 50-100 years ago? In some places you can see for yourself. The Dagashiya Game Museum is exactly such a place, hidden away right next to a temple. It functions as a candy shop as well as a Showa-era arcade. All machines work on either 10 yen coins or custom tokens, both of which can be exchanged at the counter. The games range from predecessors of the famous pachinko game, to skill-based ball balancing and coin flicking games. However, what might surprise a westerner used to a strong split between gambling and games for kids, is the sheer amount of roulette-like games that simply let you spin a wheel for a chance at some more coins. The winnings, if any, can be exchanged for various candies. Those who lose it all can still buy a treat afterwards.
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The Tomb of Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep in Badrshein, Egypt
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The decorated tombs that have survived from ancient Egypt share detailed biographical information about the their occupants. From the elaborate wall-paintings and hieroglyphic inscriptions, we can learn a great deal about the deceased—their names and ages, their professions and accomplishments, the size and composition of their families. In the 1960s, archaeologists were flabbergasted to discover a tomb that was not like the others. Instead of a husband and wife, the tomb had been built for two men named Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep, who had worked together as manicurists and hairdressers at the royal court during the Fifth Dynasty. More than 4000 years ago, two men had decided to spend eternity together. Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep commissioned an unusual series of wall paintings to decorate their tomb. In addition to scenes from daily life of the time—which are common in the Saqqara necropolis—they included several double portraits in which they were depicted holding hands and embracing. These paintings have survived and can be still seen in the tomb today. Ever since the tomb’s discovery, it has been the subject of debate between archaeologists. Were Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep close friends and colleagues who made the unusual decision to build a joint tomb for their two families? Were they brothers—perhaps identical twins—who posed for a double-portrait in the tomb where they were buried alongside their extended family? Or, as visitors to the tomb often wonder, were Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep the first gay couple in recorded history? Archaeologists continue to study the tomb and its enigmatic wall paintings. But one thing is clear: whether Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep were friends or brothers or lovers, the affection that they felt for one another has endured for more than four millennia. These two men continue to open our eyes to the richness and complexity of ancient Egyptian society.
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LSU Campus Mounds in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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The mounds on the LSU campus were originally built at a prominent landmark along the Mississippi River that would have been recognizable to any traveler 11,000 years ago when construction most likely began. The mounds were periodically built and modified over thousands of years, even while the River shifted its course. Experts don't know why the Native American builders created them, or how they used them. But people believe that they may have been a meeting place and a site for sacred and secular events. Twenty-first century research has indicated that these mounds are older than previously proven with scientific techniques, suggesting that they may be the oldest extant human-built structures in the Americas. In the century before these findings were reported, students and families regularly frolicked and picnicked on the mounds, sometimes using cardboard, cafeteria trays, and other items to sled down the mounds during snow, football games, or rain. Now the mounds are protected by fencing and monitoring, and the campus is investing in preservation and conservation activities. LSU is working to educated its students and the public to encourage respect for the mounds for both their historic value and their sacred and cultural importance to modern Native people.
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Wollseifen Village in Schleiden, Germany
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Deep inside Germany’s Eifel National Park lies Wollseifen, a deserted village whose silence tells two very different stories. First mentioned in medieval records, Wollseifen was once a normal rural community of farmers and shepherds perched on a plateau above the Urft Reservoir. But in 1946, just after World War II, the British Army ordered all 500 inhabitants to evacuate — not because of war, but because their village was needed as a military training ground. Within months, homes, barns, and the village school stood empty. Shortly afterwards, British forces constructed a bizarre mock village, a cluster of windowless concrete blocks meant to simulate urban combat zones. These stark training structures still stand today, lending Wollseifen the unsettling atmosphere of a film set abandoned after shooting. Nature has started reclaiming the site: trees grow through ruined doorways, and moss covers the walls of the old church, the village’s last intact original building. Hikers who wander through speak of the strange contrast between the peaceful national park around them and the hollow, echoing shell of a community that vanished overnight. Today, Wollseifen is freely accessible to visitors exploring the Eifel, a haunting reminder of a village erased not by war, but by the quiet decisions of the postwar military bureaucracy.
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Drammen Spiral in Drammen, Norway
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There are plenty of scenic roads that lead up mountains. What is decidedly less common is a road tunnel that ascends inside the mountain, such as the Drammen Spiral in Norway. Shaped like many parking garage ramps, it rises over 130 meters in a helix shape found nowhere else in the world. (Although there are other loop tunnels, none have two loops on top of each other, much less six!) Capped at the top by a restaurant and viewpoint over Drammen, the Spiral is the vision of City Engineer Eivind Olsen, who was concerned about the environmental impact of quarrying in the area. He proposed the tunnel as an alternative means of acquiring stone while creating a tourist attraction in the process. Opened in 1961, the tunnel was more recently renovated in 2019-20, adding colorful lighting that changes throughout the day. Halfway up the spiral, look out for a family of "Spiral trolls" constructed of wood and coiled rope. They are the mascots of the tunnel, which can be purchased as a souvenir doll.
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Forte Real de São Filipe in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde
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Forte Real de São Filipe is a 16th century fortress in the city of Cidade Velha, Cabo Verde. The fortress provides a grand view over the first capital and the Atlantic Ocean around it. It was once built to protect the capital, then called Ribeira Grande, from pirates and competing realms. The capital was eventually moved to Praia (the current capital), while the fortress remained. It eventually became the first and, at this time, the only UNESCO world heritage site of Cabo Verde. The fortress is one of the Seven Wonders of Portuguese Origin in the World. It completed the existing defense system of multiple older forts. The fortress included such as the residence of the Governor, the garrison, the prison and the chapel of São Gonçalo.
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2026-01-14T12:00:00-05:00
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Tozawa Goryeo Hall in Tozawa, Japan
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As you drive through the scenic Japanese prefecture of Yamagata, take a detour to a place that feels wonderfully out of place. An unexpected Korean complex, complete with heavenly generals, K-pop merch, and food that will teleport your taste buds to Seoul. The roadside station for the village of Tozawa is a true cultural portal. Its name Koryo-kan (高麗館), or "Goryeo Hall," is a graceful nod to the Korean dynasty that ruled from 918 to 1392. The arrival is a spectacle. The majestic, curved roofs of a Korean palace suddenly rise beside the road, guarded by stone lions and wooden statues depicting Celestial Generals. Two “Great Generals of Heaven” and two “Female Generals of Earth” stand eternal watch over one of the area's most stunning views: the Mogami River making a perfect right-angle bend below. But the real magic begins inside. This is not just a market; it's a treasure trove of Korean culture. The shelves are a delightful chaos of unique snacks, fizzy drinks, and beauty products you'd normally have to fly to Seoul to find. Imagine a bag of shrimp crackers next to a K-pop idol's face on a pillowcase. It’s a Korean convenience store dream dropped into the Japanese countryside. Venture out the back to discover the palace's "inner sanctum" where more stone statues and celestial guardians keep watch. Here, the area's traditional craft of kokeshi dolls depicts a king and queen. These towering figures represent a eautiful, silent fusion of Korean tradition and Yamagata artistry. When hunger calls, the station's hanok-style restaurant answers. Sitting under a gorgeous turquoise ceiling and digging into a piping hot stone bowl of bibimbap, you might just forget you're in Japan. The reason that a Korean complex exists in this small Japanese village is that in the mid 20th-century many Japanese men in this remote part of the countryside found Korean wives. This led to a significant Korean population in the area. Those wives even invented "Tozawa Style Kimchi." This station was built in the 1990s to celebrate that heritage. Before you leave, know that the poetic Mogami River offers its own adventure. A short drive away, you can take a boat ride along these historic waters, which once carried valuable safflower to Kyoto and even inspired the famous haiku master, Matsuo Basho. So, definitely pull over in Tozawa. It’s a multicultural detour that transforms a simple road trip into an unforgettable discovery.
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Old ‘Hanging’ Oak in Houston, Texas
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In a town preoccupied with literally tearing down its past like Houston, a tree that's been around for four centuries should be more significant. Instead the live oak blocks away from Allen's landing in downtown has the more sinister but false stigma attached to it as a hanging tree. It even had a plaque in place calling it the old hanging oak until its removal in the 1990s. While there are some true hanging trees in and around Houston, this old oak was proven to not be one of them and should be more known as one of if not the oldest living thing in the city.
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The Rebirth of Pennsylvania’s Infamous Burning Town
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“There’s not much there anymore, it’s pretty much just a crossroads.” I read the posts online telling me not to bother, but I wanted to go anyway. Certainly I could feel something as we got close: the sense of desperation, of ruin and abandon. So I drove with a small group of friends deep into eastern Pennsylvania—coal country—through towns with names like Frackville, Pottsville, Ashland. Many downtowns had at least one house that had burned to ruin and been left abandoned. It was early June, but clouds covered the sky and we drove through a slight but persistent rain. We were on our way to Centralia, Pennsylvania. The Burning Town. The coal that made this valley famous accreted in layers over tens of thousands of years, organic swamp matter turning first to peat, and then compressed over millennia into billions of tons of anthracite—the densest and most pure form of coal—the stuff that made this region of Pennsylvania famous. Mines first opened here in 1856 and Centralia was incorporated as a town a decade later. Through the years bitter labor disputes broke out over exploitative treatment of the (largely Irish immigrant) miners, leading to regular outbreaks of violence. Add to that the boom and bust cycle of the coal industry—and the environmental desolation and impoverishment of the region—and you end up with a town that is deeply scarred, both literally and metaphorically. But the story that made Centralia famous began in May 1962, when officials set fire to the trash in a local landfill in an open strip-mine pit. This wasn’t the first year they’d done this, and there were firefighters stationed to ensure the blaze didn’t get out of control. After two days, the trash fire seemed to have burned itself out. But this time, for whatever reason (the actual cause was never fully determined), something went wrong. The landfill burn had lit the coal mines beneath the town. Over the years, numerous attempts were made to put out the fire. Nothing worked. In all, federal, state, and local governments spent over $3.3 million on the blaze, which raged on, uncontrollably. Over time, residents reported that their basements were strangely hot, and in 1979, the mayor John Coddington lowered a thermometer into an underground fuel tank at the gas station he owned, only to discover that the gasoline was 172 degrees Fahrenheit. And then on Valentine’s Day, 1981, a twelve-year old boy fell into a four-foot sinkhole that opened up in his grandmother’s backyard, barely rescued by his fourteen year-old cousin. A plume of lethal carbon monoxide bellowed out from the hole. Realizing that topsoil was the only thing separating the town from a massive, raging inferno, the federal government finally decided to clear the town. The United States Congress allocated money for a buyout, which nearly all of the town’s 1,000 or so residents took. By 1990, 63 people remained in the town. Two years later, governor Bob Casey invoked eminent domain and condemned all the remaining buildings. By 2021, only five homes were still left standing. I had come here expecting that we would find ruin and neglect, toxicity and destitution. I expected Centralia to be an exemplar of the eerie: A place where once there had been a town, place of thriving life, and instead now was only absence, an emptiness, a void. What we found instead, strangely, was beauty. Centralia, despite everything I’d been led to expect, was thriving. The Burning Town has come to stand in as a kind of exemplar of a post-industrial wasteland, a place where human folly reached its apex, scorching the land. All but abandoned, it became known primarily for the vents that poured smoke from the fire below, and for Graffiti Highway—a closed stretch of Route 61 covered in tags, doodles of genitalia, and declarations of love. When adapting the video game franchise Silent Hill for film, screenwriter Roger Avary used Centralia as a model for both the town’s backstory and its look. For years it drew curious onlookers and legend trippers, while the name “Centralia” itself became an almost byword for late capitalism: a term for that mixture of rapacious profit-seeking and thoughtless stewardship that created America’s own Chernobyl. Locals see the story a little differently, though their version borrows from similar themes. Phil, a tour guide at Pioneer Tunnel in neighboring Ashland, pointed out that while the grim toil of the mines claimed many human lives, their closure left the valley with little else to offer. He explained how the families that didn’t leave Centralia were harassed, as government forces tried to drive them off their land. Those that stayed had to go to court to defend their right to live on this abandoned land, all because they wanted to keep the mineral rights to their property. So now, people like Phil assume that the government is just waiting them out. Once they’re gone, putting out the fire will be easy enough. “They’ll take all that red hot coals, but also they’re going to get that rich anthracite coal,” he told us. “And I’m sure they’ll sell that. But are the people or the relatives going to get anything? It’s very doubtful. It’ll probably go to the federal government. Or the coal baron, maybe?” His voice, I noticed after a while, has a peculiar kind of nostalgia for the worst times in the world. Like so many others in these towns, he seems to long for a return, another chance for Pennsylvanians to throw their children back into the maw of the mine. Anything for a chance to get the coal jobs will come back. Anything in service of waking the Mountain once more. When we finally got to Centralia, we were met not with destruction or despair, but with what seemed at first simply like nothing. The streets are still laid out, and there are still a handful of houses left, but the graffiti highway has been covered over. Any abandoned buildings have long been torn down. It’s why, if you ask around these days, folks will tell you there’s nothing to see in Centralia. “I drove through Centralia 2 weeks ago,” one local commented on a Reddit thread. “I didn’t realize till after I had already passed it. That should tell you everything you need to know.” In another thread a different local commented, “What is the draw? It’s just empty ground now.” But emptiness can tell its own story. Standing on the empty streets of Centralia, I thought mainly of Cal Flynn’s Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape. Flynn travels the world to places that have been forsworn by humanity: not the pristine, untouched wilderness, but places abandoned, like Chernobyl and the exclusion zone that divides the island of Cyprus between its Greek and Turkish halves. Places where, Flynn writes, “nature has been allowed to work unfettered.” Such places are often thriving with plant and animal life. Abandonment, she writes, “is rewilding, in a very pure sense, as humans draw back and nature reclaims what once was hers.” What Flynn makes clear is that while we tend to think of human activity on the landscape as not only damaging but irreversible, this may not always be the case. We believe, in our hubris, that we have the power to wreck nature for good. And while it’s true that places like the Bikini Atoll and Chernobyl will be radioactive for unimaginable human lifetimes, that doesn’t mean that other species haven’t moved in and, left unmolested by human activity, found ways to flourish. Flynn’s book catalogs a variety of ways in which nature has reclaimed places that we’ve left behind, often with surprising speed. When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square miles of collectivist farmlands were simply abandoned. They weren’t plowed over, repurposed, or re-seeded. They simply were left alone. Flora immediately went to work: soon these fields were covered in wildflowers and weeds, and then thorn bushes and brambles, and then the skinny shoots of young spruce trees. Now, thirty-five years later, Estonia is now one of the most forested countries in Europe, having nearly doubled the size of its forests by doing … nothing. Half the country is now a forest, and over 90 percent of those forests have naturally regenerated. When I say that Centralia is thriving, this is what I mean. It is a landscape pulsing with life, overflowing with lush greenery. The old grid of streets is still visible, and there are still a handful of houses with carefully mowed lawns sitting in defiance. But everything else is the wild and vital province of nature. Turkeyfoot, broom-sedge, and switchgrass and silky dogwood. Young white oaks and linden trees push their way through this cacophony of life. Everywhere that’s not asphalt is a riot of green in every possible shade. And all of this is possible, at least in part, because the state and federal governments have forbidden any new human settlement, giving the wild and the lush and untrammeled room to grow. Not all of this is just nature. In 2021, the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation planted 250 apple trees in the hope of attracting butterflies. EPCAMR has hosted annual trash clean-ups in the town, but a few years ago turned to planting and furthering the former town’s potential as an unofficial wildlife sanctuary. “We’re trying to get that area designated as a monarch way station eventually,” Robert “Bobby” Hughes, executive director of EPCAMR said at the time. But as vital as this work is, it seems primarily that the rewilding of Centralia is simply the work of leaving it alone. Standing in what was once a small, otherwise forgettable town, I came to understand how folly, mistake, calamitous hubris, neglect, and plain stupidity—could all be weapons in an arsenal to rewild and reforest the Earth, a future waiting in places we mistakenly believe we have irredeemably scarred. Beyond the town itself, the thing people have come to mourn here is the Graffiti Highway, which for years was a strange destination before it was covered over in 2020. It began, as these things often do, as spontaneous tagging and defacement. But over time, more taggers added their names, their designs, their art, and their stories, until it had become a makeshift historical record of the people who live here. Over time, it had begun to encroach on the natural history that was also unfolding, spilling out beyond the asphalt and into the forest, as trees and plants started to get defaced. It became an attractive nuisance, repeated bonfires and ATV crashes straining local resources, so when coal company Pagnotti Enterprises bought the land in 2018, they chose to bury the road in dirt and erased it for good. There is now, in the words of many Redditors, no reason to go to Centralia. But the company’s decision also obliterated what some saw as a vital piece in the region’s history. Pagnotti’s reviews on Google are uniformly one-star ratings alongside comments like “You ruined graffiti highway,” “ruined a landmark, nice piles of dirt, go die,” and so on. For those who contributed to the Graffiti Highway, it had marked loves and losses, honored the dead and celebrated the living, all in a hundred different colors. (Park Street in Centralia has since begun to take the place of the old Graffiti Highway, decorated with a variety of tags, but at the moment it has nowhere near the density of the original Graffiti Highway. Some monuments take time to rebuild.) Kutztown University professor Deryl Johnson has called the story of Graffiti Highway an “epilogue” to the story of Centralia itself, but I’m not sure I agree. The story of Centralia is still very much unfolding—it did not end in 1982, and it did not end in 2020. Now that the highway is gone, the tourist attraction draw of this place has waned, leaving even more space for the natural world to reclaim the land. A new chapter has begun, and there may be other chapters in the story yet to come—chapters whose shape and direction we can only guess at. If you think of Centralia in terms of human habitation, it’s a ghost town, a few stubborn holdouts fighting against entropy and inertia. If you think of Centralia in terms of legend tripping and ruin porn, it’s nothing at all, barely a wide spot in the road. But if you think of Centralia as an unintended nature preserve, it is absolutely bursting with life and potential and possibility. Yet still the ground burns. Just out of the grid of streets that was once the town, down Big Mine Run Road, are the vents themselves: small holes in the sides of the hills like something out of Tolkien that lead down to inferno below. These days, the smoke itself is rarely visible, but when rain filters down to the fires, it comes back out as steam. So on the rainy day of our visit, we watched as these vents let out a small, steady stream of white steam, proof of the heat somewhere beneath our feet. It was an odd sensation. The wisps seemed peaceful, laconic, almost soothing. And at the same time, it seemed as though at any moment the entire valley would explode. Somehow it felt like both of these things at once. Looking at these gentle wisps of smoke, it is difficult to picture the smoldering inferno they emerged from. A fire that has raged out of control for sixty years, unending and older than most people you know. You try and you fail every time. Which is to say, Centralia’s mine fire is a thing that should not be. I can describe to you its history, the actions of the people involved. I can describe to you what the surface looks like, the species of plants, the words etched into the tombstones at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. But the secret, raging, burning heart of the Valley remains elusive. The plumes are a subtle reminder, easy to miss, that there is a reason for this pristine, thriving wildness all around us. That the coal mines underground are a price that has to be paid, paid to an underworld god that must be forever fed.
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A bridge built across the Guadiana River by the Romans in the 1st Century AD now serves as a pedestrian connection across the river. It's seen everything from the Romans to the Visigoths to the Moors. Restoration work was done in the 7th century and the 17th century. These days it's a quiet, though over 700m long, connection between the Alcazaba and the far side of the river.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/puente-romano
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The Marshall Britannia steam monument in Yogyakarta is a significant historical display located at the east entrance of the Yogyakarta Railway Station (also known as Stasiun Tugu). It is not a traditional railway locomotive, but rather a Marshall single-cylinder portable steam engine, a type typically used for running equipment in the sugar industry. This model was built by Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd. between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. The monument is now located at the north wing of the Stasiun Tugu entrance, just across from the end of Jalan Malioboro, which is the iconic main street and heart of the largest tourist and commercial district in Yogyakarta. The station also features a D301 22 hydraulic diesel locomotive monument at its south entrance, underscoring the history of rail transport in the area.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/yogyakarta-station-steam-locomotive-monument
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Tucked away from the bustling streets of Antwerp's historic center, the Vlaeykensgang is a genuine portal to the 16th century. Dating back to 1591, this near-secret labyrinth of alleys and courtyards is one of the last remaining examples of a medieval "gang" (alley) in the city. To find it, one must pass through an inconspicuous wooden gate at Oude Koornmarkt 16, which looks more like a private entrance than a public passage. Once inside, the noise of the city fades, replaced by the quiet charm of cobblestone paths, ivy-covered brick walls, and tiny, picturesque houses. Historically, this alley was home to the city's poorest residents, particularly the cobblers (shoemakers) who managed the nearby guild. Legend also states that it served as a vital shortcut for the cathedral's bell-ringers (klokkenluiders), allowing them to quickly reach the church when the bells needed to be rung. Today, the alley is meticulously restored and houses private residences and a fine-dining restaurant, but it remains a publicly accessible oasis of calm that many visitors walk straight past, unaware of the history hidden just meters away.
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It’s hard to miss the Big Texan Steak Ranch. There’s the bright yellow building, the giant fiberglass cow and of course the restaurant’s 90-foot-tall cowboy sign. Of course to call this eatery and brewery a “restaurant” vastly understates its place as a historical icon along Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas. There are many reasons to stop here for a meal, but its Texas-size challenge is surely the wildest and most entertaining. It presents the question: Can you eat a shrimp cocktail, a baked potato, a salad, a buttered roll and—drumroll—a 72-ounce steak in one hour? The 72-ounce steak challenge, as it’s called, has been bringing diners in since 1962, when the challenge was first held. That was in its first location, along official Route 66; though its current spot on Interstate Highway 40 follows roughly the original highway’s path. Kansan R.J. Lee recognized back in the middle of the last century that other people shared his enthusiasm for the storied culture of cowboys and ranchers, so when he opened his restaurant, he reserved a big table in the center for them. This way, visitors to the area could experience big steaks amid an authentically big Texas scene. Legend holds that in 1962, one hostler ate the equivalent of 72 ounces of steak and claimed he was still hungry, so he was served a baked potato, shrimp cocktail, salad, and a bread roll. Anyone who could do the same within one hour could get their dinner free. The opportunity spread through newspaper headlines and word of mouth and business boomed. That boom halted in 1968 when I-40 replaced Route 66 as the major artery through the area. Suddenly patrons disappeared, and Lee, now with eight children and no bank loan, rebuilt the Big Texan on I-40 with scrap wood and reclaimed materials. It again became a success, despite a fire in the 1970s that destroyed part of the building. When it was rebuilt, the restaurant was grander than ever, with two-story seating for 480 guests, a gift shop, an arcade and a stage where the 72-ounce challengers chowed down. Two of Lee’s sons took on the business in the 1990s. The restaurant continues to be popular today, as one of the sons has noted: Cowboys don’t go out of style. Indeed, the traditions and the challenge continue. The menu features 15 different steak cuts (not counting the Little Texan sirloin on the kids’ menu), and a variety of non-steak items including fried pickles, chicken and waffles, and other Texas specialities. One of the restaurant’s servers noted in 2025 that the restaurant has about 10 to 15 challengers a day with one to two winners a week. More than 10,000 people have won the challenge out of about 100,000 that have given it a go. The only question now is: Will you be next?
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The Quest to Visit 1,000 Places
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I’m Kelly McEvers, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. So I don’t know about you, but I like to keep track of all the places that I have visited, say, in the past year. I have lists of all the countries that I visit in a given region. Each year I go back to my handwritten calendar planner book because, yes, I still write everything down. I have kept track of all my trips, and that helps me remember all the places I’ve visited and the people I saw. Most people I know are, of course, more advanced than this. They actually keep digital records like lists of restaurants where they want to go or Google Maps with pins on places. In case you have somehow stumbled upon this podcast and you don’t know too much about Atlas Obscura, we actually have a map, an Atlas, filled with thousands upon thousands of unusual places across the globe. Each place is submitted by a person, and it is a fun tool to use whether you are on vacation or you want to get to know your own hometown better. My guest today has visited over 1,000 of these places. Her name is Caroline Mazel-Carlton, and she has been working toward that goal for more than 10 years. This project, Visiting 1,000 places, was about more than just taking items off the list. She says it helped save her life. Caroline, welcome. This is an edited transcript of the Atlas Obscura Podcast: a celebration of the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. This episode contains discussions of suicidal thoughts. If you or someone you know is struggling, contact the Suicide Crisis Hotline by calling or texting 988. Caroline Mazel-Carlton: Oh, I’m getting teary already. It’s so good to be here. Thank you, Kelly. Kelly McEvers: Yeah, welcome. So talk about your first ever visit to an Atlas Obscura place. Caroline Mazel-Carlton: Yeah. So one of the first times that I remember using the Atlas Obscura was when I wanted to take my now-husband on a romantic interlude, like a nice weekend away. And so I was looking for spots—bed and breakfasts—and the Atlas Obscura was so helpful because it showed me that not too far away in Fall River, Massachusetts, you can find Lizzie Borden’s house. Kelly: In case you’re not familiar, in 1892, Lizzie Borden allegedly murdered her parents, Abby and Andrew Borden, in their house with an axe. Lizzie was acquitted. And Caroline believes she was innocent. But the whole thing has become a bit of a folk story. And the house where the murders took place still stands now as this untraditional bed and breakfast. Caroline: They had this whole getaway that you could have and sleep in Lizzie Borden’s house. They had dummies set up, sort of positioned where, Andrew Borden, what he would have looked like after the crime had been committed. So it was this beautiful Victorian house full of wonderful Victorian hair art, which I’m a big fan of Victorian hair art as well—some great specimens of that there. So it was just an amazing experience. Kelly: And I would imagine that your now husband was into it? Caroline: Oh, yeah, yeah. It was sort of like a litmus test in a way. Kelly: I was going to say, if he passed that, then he knew he was a keeper. Caroline: There’s a beautiful picture of us taken where we were sitting on this like Victorian couch and we have the dummy representing Andrew Borden’s bloody corpse splayed out across our laps. And we’re just brimming with young love. And it’s such a beautiful photograph. Kelly: Yeah. I love it. You’re like, this is the one for me. Caroline: Absolutely. And I did try, when we got married, I tried to convince my mom to let me use that photo for our save the date. But she said, “No, I’m not into the idea of this bloody corpse photo.” So we ended up using a picture from another trip we took to Paris. Kelly: Nice. And I would love to just know where your urge to go places started. What was one of your most memorable trips you took as a kid? Caroline: So my family growing up, we weren’t the type of family that went to the same beach or the same lake house every year for vacation. One of my family mottos was, “We’ll go anywhere once.” Kelly: Oh, I love that. Caroline: And so my dad has always been a history buff, but he’s never shied away from the weirder and grittier parts of American history. Some of my early memories are definitely wandering around graveyards. I remember seeing the taxidermied horse of Stonewall Jackson in some weird museum in Virginia. One place we went, and sadly, you can’t go here anymore. My dad has sort of, like, a dark streak, like, dark humor. And he became obsessed with the story of this guy named Floyd Collins, who was a cave explorer that actually got trapped and died in the Mammoth Cave system. So my dad and I actually did some caving together and visited the museum that honors this man. A tribute to explorers everywhere, but sadly he did not make it out of the cave. Kelly: Mm-hmm. You actually set this goal of trying to visit 1,000 Atlas Obscura places over a decade ago in 2012. And for so many people, you know, travel and seeing the world, there’s all these reasons we do it, but a lot of it is like: I want a change in perspective, or I want to learn more about this culture. I want to be wowed. For you, it sounds like there was a really kind of specific reason that you did this. Can you take us back to that time and talk about what was going on in your life? Caroline: So for me, I grew up experiencing a lot of bullying over how I looked or the way that I acted. And I started to struggle a lot with thoughts of suicide. And in fact, for certain parts of my life I was hospitalized and was in treatment programs where you’re not allowed to leave places like that. So it’s kind of a smaller existence. For me, it was always trying to figure out, how do I survive? How do I find a way to exist in this world? And what I realized is, for a lot of us that grapple with suicidal thoughts, it’s not truly that we want to literally die, but that the life that we’re living needs to end. It’s sort of this desire to be transformed in a way. For me, trying to figure out how to exist in the world has always been a bit of a battle in and of itself. And I remember one time seeing a book on my uncle. My uncle Doug also loved to travel the world. And he had a book called 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Kelly: Okay. Caroline: And I thought about that. And I thought about the power of saying to myself, you know what? You can’t die today because there’s still places that you haven’t seen yet. So I used that book for a while, but then when I discovered Atlas Obscura, I was like, these sites are actually more interesting to me. They’re more accessible. They’re weirder. As I visit Atlas Obscura sites, I often learn about weird people like myself. I’ve seen amazing outsider art. So reaching a thousand Atlas Obscura sites before I died became really, really important to me. Kelly: Since then, Caroline has visited Atlas Obscura places around the world, from the grave of Johnny Appleseed in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to a temple complex in Pune, India, with 500 statues of Lord Ganesh. Once, on a 16-hour layover in Hong Kong, she left the airport and took a tram over the mountains to see the world's largest-seated bronze Buddha. She’s been to the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik and the world’s largest Czech egg in Wilson, Kansas, and a taxidermy shop in Paris that Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali would visit for inspiration. Taxidermy holds a special place in Caroline’s heart. Caroline: There’s one Atlas Obscura site I’m going to give a shout out to, Ole’s Big Game Steakhouse in Nebraska, where you can be surrounded by taxidermy and also you can eat at the same time. Kelly: Which, not going to lie, doesn’t sound great to some people, but I love it. Today, Caroline works in suicide prevention. with an organization that does peer support, advocacy, and training for harm reduction. And she brought her 1,000 places goal into that work. Caroline has led trainings around the world, and sometimes on these trips, she and her colleagues will visit Atlas Obscura sites together. Caroline says it is really hard to choose a favorite memory. Caroline: Oh, there are so many. I remember one time we were doing an alternatives to suicide training and we were in Tacoma, Washington, and we actually found on Atlas Obscura the grave of Kurt Cobain, who was someone that I looked up to when I was younger, one of my favorite musicians, and who did die by suicide. But we went there together and it felt like such a special place to be there and honor him and his role in our lives and the way he could give voice to pain in a way that other people could connect with. I also remember a time where I was giving a talk at The Hague in the Netherlands and we visited a museum. I think it’s called Museum of the Mind, which had been a psychiatric hospital. But then they filled it with art, beautiful art made from former psychiatric patients. So going there and to some of the Van Gogh sites. And it’s just been incredible to do that with some of my colleagues who’ve also struggled with thoughts of suicide. And I really look at this achievement of reaching a thousand sites as something that we did together. And it felt really special because it was all connected to the journey of healing and embracing our weirdness and our desire to live in a world that’s not always, you know, normative. Kelly: So, I mean, you hit the goal, right? You’re over 1,000. You’re at 1,048, to be exact. So what’s next? I mean, how do you, you know, where do you go from there? Do you set a new goal? Are you just going to keep on keeping on at this point? Do you feel like you’re going to travel differently now? Caroline: Yeah. Well, after meeting the goal, I was like, I can rest a little bit because I honestly thought I’m 43. So I thought I would be at least 50 before I hit 1,000. but I hit it much more quickly than I thought I would. But the thing about Atlas Obscura is there’s always more you can do. And one of the things that I really encourage everyone listening to do is to add sites to the Atlas yourself. It’s a thrill for me to do that. I remember one time I was working in Brazil and we were just in this little town that had no Atlas Obscura sites, but I’m like, I’m going to find something. And I found this guy with a little, he had a cell phone store, but then he had sort of in the back rooms, all these historical communication devices. Even one of the first Morse code devices and a phonograph. And we got to, through broken English and broken Portuguese, I wrote an article and posted that on the Atlas, and I checked it today, and now eight people have been there. When you add a site to the Atlas, you really do change people’s lives. You know, I don’t struggle as much in my life anymore as when I started because the world just seems more weird and welcoming. Kelly: Caroline Mazel-Carlton, thank you so much for sharing your story and thank you for the work that you do helping other people too. Caroline: Absolutely. I just seek to make this place more welcoming and, you know, people are struggling. My organization, we have alternatives to suicide support groups. There are places you can go to talk where people will listen and not shame you or judge you and where we acknowledge that there’s many paths to healing. And sometimes that path to healing means walking around a really weird taxidermy store and that’s okay. Kelly: While eating a steak. Caroline: Yes. I’m here for it. Kelly: That was Caroline Mazel-Carlton. She has visited 1,048 Atlas Obscura places. No doubt many more to come. We will put a link to the Atlas in our show notes, so maybe you can start ticking off your own list of 1,000 places. Also, if you or someone you know is struggling, you can contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
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Lithium-ion batteries could last longer with chemical tweak
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It's difficult to form a protective coating that prolongs battery life at the battery's cathode, but there may be a low-cost chemical solution
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Body fat supports your health in surprisingly complex ways
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Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it also regulates blood pressure and immunity
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Distant 'little red dot' galaxies may contain baby black holes
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Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed "little red dots", and now it seems they may each carry a baby black hole
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Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate
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Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate
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6 ways to help your children have a healthy relationship with food
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Getting kids to eat well can be a minefield and a source of tension. Nancy Bostock, a consultant paediatrician, says these are the six things she recommends when dealing with fussy eaters and the way we talk about food with kids.
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China has applied to launch 200,000 satellites, but what are they for?
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A Chinese application to the International Telecommunications Union suggests plans for the largest satellite mega constellation ever built – but something else might be going on here
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All major AI models risk encouraging dangerous science experiments
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Researchers risk fire, explosion or poisoning by allowing AI to design experiments, warn scientists. Some 19 different AI models were tested on hundreds of questions to assess their ability to spot and avoid hazards and none recognised all issues – with some doing little better than random guessing
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Why non-human culture should change how we see nature
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Our growing understanding of how other animals also share skills and knowledge will help us chip away at the folly of human exceptionalism, say Philippa Brakes and Marc Bekoff
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Woolly rhino genome recovered from meat in frozen wolf pup’s stomach
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A piece of woolly rhinoceros flesh hidden inside a wolf that died 14,400 years ago has yielded genetic information that improves our understanding of why one of the most iconic megafauna species of the last glacial period went extinct
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Sinking river deltas put millions at risk of flooding
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Some of the world’s biggest megacities are located in river deltas threatened by subsidence due to excessive groundwater extraction and urban expansion, compounding the threat they face from sea-level rise
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Psychiatry has finally found an objective way to spot mental illness
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A decades-long push to identify clear biomarkers for anxiety and depression is at last achieving results
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2026-01-14T12:00:45+00:00
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T. rex took 40 years to become fully grown
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An analysis of growth rings in the leg bones of 17 Tyrannosaurus rex individuals reveals that the dinosaurs matured much more slowly than previously thought, and adds to the evidence that they weren't all one species
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2026-01-14T12:00:41+00:00
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Three ways to become calmer this New Year that you haven't tried (yet)
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Easing stress is one of the healthiest pursuits you can embark on this January. Here are some evidence-backed ways to ground yourself in 2026
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We must completely change the way we build homes to stay below 2°C
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Construction generates between 10 and 20 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, but cities can slash their climate impact by designing buildings in a more efficient way
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511350-we-must-completely-change-the-way-we-build-homes-to-stay-below-2c/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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b71057b691724a9aaa8fb0378ab60f80af857853745e5cde4dfbf7db2f618246
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2026-01-14T03:00:58+00:00
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Sooner-than-expected climate impacts could cost the world trillions
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A report warns that we may have seriously underestimated the rate of warming, which could damage economic growth
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511371-sooner-than-expected-climate-impacts-could-cost-the-world-trillions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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Science
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4e94559a218cc8a8a83fd4ed6416f602bd2e4c58d8510875aaf54cd5f2c02aca
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2026-01-13T23:30:15+00:00
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These small lifestyle tweaks can add a year to your life
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A few extra minutes of sleep per day or an extra half-serving of vegetables with dinner can add a year to our lives, according to an analysis of data from 60,000 people
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511292-these-small-lifestyle-tweaks-can-add-a-year-to-your-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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Science
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280544b1c482ba8eced776cb34991b2dfcf31052dbb354887d876b24d57100e5
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2026-01-13T18:00:53+00:00
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The hunt for where the last Neanderthals lived
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Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge, says columnist Michael Marshall
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511153-the-hunt-for-where-the-last-neanderthals-lived/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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Science
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144dbe69398f96572a38b7233118f5082f757587714003677a2f21f0ffa40137
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2026-01-13T16:00:05+00:00
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The Pacific Islanders fighting to save their homes from catastrophe
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Some of climate change's sharpest realities are being felt on small island nations, where extreme weather is claiming homes and triggering displacement. Those able to stay are spearheading inventive adaptation techniques in a bid to secure their future
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509948-the-pacific-islanders-fighting-to-save-their-homes-from-catastrophe/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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Science
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ba00c1272439351502c9741eb26cc083727359eacb2850df4b9214f09a3d7d3f
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2026-01-13T15:00:08+00:00
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Greenland sharks survive for centuries with diseased hearts
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A study of the hearts of Greenland sharks has found that the long-lived deep-sea predator has massive accumulations of ageing markers, such as severe scarring, but this doesn't appear to affect their health or longevity
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2511222-greenland-sharks-survive-for-centuries-with-diseased-hearts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home
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Science
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aac8827948252265f31c5ad4ae611ef5b7511254ccbacc3c0772559ac964e08a
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2026-01-15T19:00:00+00:00
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Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet
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A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/fragment-of-lost-tectonic-plate-discovered-where-san-andreas-and-cascadia-faults-meet
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Science
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3e1d0872c907bd63c385cd6084e9633551ea75e9cf7b24f9ef2615c185dea1ab
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2026-01-15T19:00:00+00:00
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New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice
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The map shows diverse geological features shaping Antarctic glaciers from below, which can improve climate models of ice melt.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/new-map-of-antarctica-reveals-hidden-world-of-lakes-valleys-and-mountains-buried-beneath-miles-of-ice
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4ff86563f014b0e5734dad5f1765e2b24c038bc1694755f4b1a647640b0d0838
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2026-01-15T18:30:00+00:00
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These genes were thought to lead to blindness 100% of the time. They don't.
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New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.
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https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/these-genes-were-thought-to-lead-to-blindness-100-percent-of-the-time-they-dont
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Science
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2026-01-15T18:00:00+00:00
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Our model of the universe is deeply flawed — unless space is actually a 'sticky fluid,' new research hints
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Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a new paper suggests.
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https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/dark-energy/our-model-of-the-universe-is-deeply-flawed-unless-space-is-actually-a-sticky-fluid-new-research-hints
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Science
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c4f1151363933f92c1b2d0724f75c1a61f200f354244448cbbe10fe11bfa2d08
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2026-01-15T17:36:12+00:00
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Rare nocturnal parrots in New Zealand are breeding for the first time in 4 years — here's why
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The 2026 breeding season for endangered kākāpō could produce the most chicks in decades.
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/rare-nocturnal-parrots-in-new-zealand-are-breeding-for-the-first-time-in-4-years-heres-why
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cba44c41ed764eacb6714edf2e30995e534e3fd265c43cf9f2dc86610d207986
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2026-01-15T17:08:03+00:00
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NASA's powerful new Roman Space Telescope is complete — and will soon begin mission to find 100,000 alien worlds
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New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. Experts have also revealed when the next-gen spacecraft is set to launch and begin collecting data.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasas-powerful-new-roman-space-telescope-is-complete-and-will-soon-begin-mission-to-find-100-000-alien-worlds
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Science
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51951b39fe1324f250defcfb9b4a0a32b19be89c1a073a9249f7784f7b461617
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2026-01-15T12:25:35+00:00
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Scientists watch microscopic plant 'mouths' breathing in real time with palm-sized tool
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Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that require less water, making them potentially more resilient to climate change.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/scientists-watch-microscopic-plant-mouths-breathing-in-real-time-with-palm-sized-tool
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ee21cfe89ffae008d72f27fe403f9107781781708792c7bf893655f69212d8dd
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2026-01-15T12:06:15+00:00
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NASA astronauts back on Earth after unprecedented medical emergency on ISS
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The SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft splashed down this morning as four astronauts completed an unprecedented medical evacuation of the International Space Station (ISS).
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https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-astronauts-back-on-earth-after-unprecedented-medical-emergency-on-iss
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25b2e927ac2b7b5781332ed3d8920692c34f92f816a9ca6d3a6e9b4b24042db0
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2026-01-15T10:00:00+00:00
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Chinese scientists unveil reliable lunar clock that accounts for Einstein's relativity
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A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of relativity.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/chinese-scientists-unveil-reliable-lunar-clock-that-accounts-for-einsteins-relativity
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3be9cfb7285ab0c7ebbc470c3f638542cb42dbce7b10c3b3bea0c1ae64cfcf2b
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2026-01-14T17:04:34+00:00
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Black hole butterflies? James Webb telescope spots dozens of black hole 'cocoons' in early universe.
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The gaseous cocoons surrounding "little red dots" hint at their true nature, a new James Webb telescope study hints.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-saw-black-holes-emerging-from-cocoons-near-the-dawn-of-time-new-study-hints
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5f6018cadc9198cc9cc26df14772800fb809a3e3f5542352cac31b7b35d95c00
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2026-01-14T17:01:00+00:00
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Woolly rhino flesh pulled from ancient wolf stomach gives clues to ice age giant's extinction
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More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out why it went extinct.
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/one-of-the-last-woolly-rhinos-to-walk-earth-was-eaten-by-a-wolf-pup-and-scientists-have-now-sequenced-its-genome-from-the-undigested-meat
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Science
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dd8f37814e0860ffd5a7e7aea173412080220b9caa8e24962a0da04f71cbce3a
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2026-01-14T16:41:16+00:00
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'One of those rare 'wow' moments': Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that 'shouldn't be there'
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A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping apart its partner star like a black hole.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/one-of-those-rare-wow-moments-zombie-star-near-earth-has-a-rainbow-shockwave-that-shouldnt-be-there
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Science
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a183fdd01ed8c9643b63c927b1d83e5f649144fe41727be4a1f29b3fa6ff52ab
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2026-01-14T16:15:50+00:00
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18 of Earth's biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising
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Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests. This exacerbates the risk of catastrophic coastal flooding and land loss.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/18-of-earths-biggest-river-deltas-including-the-nile-and-amazon-are-sinking-faster-than-global-sea-levels-are-rising
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2026-01-14T15:08:40+00:00
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Strange, 'starved' galaxy died 'a death of 1,000 cuts' in the ancient universe, JWST reveals
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A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new observations revealed.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-solves-cosmic-murder-mystery-in-pablos-galaxy-and-it-was-a-black-hole-who-done-it
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Science
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0033abc30b5a71067e647d6ed65b243bbd242ec13e41c38e287e666b04f8c83e
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2026-01-14T14:30:00+00:00
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MIT's chip stacking breakthrough could cut energy use in power-hungry AI processes
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Data doesn’t have to travel as far or waste as much energy when the memory and logic components are closer together.
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https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/mits-chip-stacking-breakthrough-could-cut-energy-use-in-power-hungry-ai-processes
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Science
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63d7c7ccfd2cd9f4090987f35dd6c873f3ff8b3fd4be4286bf062a1a9cc26fd9
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2026-01-14T14:14:03+00:00
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How to watch 'Pole to Pole with Will Smith' — TV and streaming details as Oscar-winning actor blends adventure and scientific discovery
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The actor embarks on a "thrilling adventure" across seven expeditions — here's how to watch "Pole to Pole with Will Smith" online from anywhere.
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/how-to-watch-pole-to-pole-with-will-smith-tv-and-streaming-details-as-oscar-winning-actor-blends-adventure-and-scientific-discovery
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a225282a8193bc0e9ab0d7772ff8c40434f2ec4abd608ce6c840f23398f9b99b
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2026-01-14T12:00:00+00:00
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Most complete Homo habilis skeleton ever found dates to more than 2 million years ago and retains 'Lucy'-like features
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Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/most-complete-homo-habilis-skeleton-ever-found-dates-to-more-than-2-million-years-ago-and-retains-lucy-like-features
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1146f9a8a06df91de29021bd6c27339a0a347f0a57e2a06d6bc1a0cf1a5dc362
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2026-01-14T11:00:00+00:00
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Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time
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Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but tiny black holes in disguise?
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https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/some-objects-we-thought-were-planets-may-actually-be-tiny-black-holes-from-the-dawn-of-time
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cda24470b7681419f6c0221198a5a438e779484be42aba1a2172de8f4c99ecfe
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2026-01-14T11:00:00+00:00
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Diagnostic dilemma: A man's sudden seizures were set off by sudoku
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In the weeks following a ski accident, a German man experienced seizures when he completed sudoku puzzles.
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https://www.livescience.com/health/mind/diagnostic-dilemma-a-mans-sudden-seizures-were-set-off-by-sudoku
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Science
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f43c3d8a81ceb2132d65bcd8cf6e5fc66409fa22d5fdc5907611fb374b66a877
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2026-01-13T21:58:22+00:00
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Largest crowd-sourced hunt for alien intelligence reveals 12 billion 'signals of interest' in collapsed Arecibo Observatory data
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A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's largest radio telescope.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/scientists-study-100-possible-alien-radio-signals-from-collapsed-arecibo-observatory-ending-groundbreaking-21-year-search
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9b8dcc1a7ab83fae8e36214ee511b80806df3ad1b4c01d8feab090d2b5e1ff4d
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2026-01-13T17:35:20+00:00
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Mega-iceberg A23a, formerly the world's largest, turns into bright 'blue mush' as it finally dies after 40 years at sea
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New satellite photos reveal that one of the world's largest and longest-lived icebergs, A23a, has developed vibrant blue striations on its surface. The striking snaps hint that the "megaberg" will soon disappear forever, ending a surprisingly eventful four-decade-long saga.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/mega-iceberg-a23a-formerly-the-worlds-largest-turns-into-bright-blue-mush-as-it-finally-dies-after-40-years-at-sea
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238058723c30dfb76acf915560809d47766a0d89322e15f738c381d40ee1bd2f
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2026-01-13T17:15:14+00:00
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Artemis 2 mission update: Rollout imminent as NASA prepares first crewed Artemis mission to the moon
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NASA's Artemis 2 rollout could be as early as this weekend as the space agency makes final preparations for its first crewed Artemis moon mission.
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https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/artemis-2-mission-update-rollout-imminent-as-nasa-prepares-first-crewed-artemis-mission-to-the-moon
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Science
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e19845101b29f3e37b5bdec54686067f1d1328f3eb11116e302694f352a39722
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2026-01-13T16:22:28+00:00
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Parkfield, San Andreas, and the quest for a 'crystal ball' for predicting earthquakes before they happen
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A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from "When Worlds Quake," geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalčić looks at why predicting earthquakes is so difficult.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/parkfield-san-andreas-and-the-quest-for-a-crystal-ball-for-predicting-earthquakes-before-they-happen
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Science
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ba77204b393ef38f07b903783d5beb8a45837db6ac581e0b864952b47b637742
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2026-01-13T13:00:00+00:00
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Ötzi the Iceman mummy carried a high-risk strain of HPV, research finds
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Two renowned prehistoric individuals were likely infected with a human papillomavirus that has been linked to several cancers.
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/otzi-the-iceman-mummy-carried-a-high-risk-strain-of-hpv-research-finds
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e6a265c5df31f56d7c09ed099efcb94c3db03a4dfd55cc569d5e6328d4e87cbc
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2026-01-13T12:00:00+00:00
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Is there such a thing as 'too much' protein?
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Daily protein requirements vary a bit person to person, but some evidence suggests consuming high amounts of protein could do more harm than good. Live Science spoke to experts to learn more.
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https://www.livescience.com/health/food-diet/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-protein
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Science
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ba81bf5e288778acb420313a895f2adb94b6ff345ac5bb6f16c028eae2d69660
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2026-01-13T08:00:00+00:00
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Ethereal ice structures swirl alongside Chicago during extreme cold snap fueled by polar vortex — Earth from space
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A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during an extreme cold snap that covered Chicago in a blanket of snow.
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/ethereal-ice-structures-swirl-alongside-chicago-during-extreme-cold-snap-fueled-by-polar-vortex-earth-from-space
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Science
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0c5f61fa6d4b2ff3855026597e3b99e7f833edd81587926d5a66c4fb710dd19a
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2026-01-16T06:00:00+00:00
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15% Off Adidas Promo Code | January 2026
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Save 15% or 30% with Adidas promo codes, plus explore January deals for 40% off trendy sneakers.
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https://www.wired.com/story/adidas-promo-code/
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2026-01-15T22:44:25+00:00
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Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
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Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates. They’re also pissed at Meta.
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https://www.wired.com/story/metas-layoffs-supernatural-fitness-users/
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2026-01-15T21:43:57+00:00
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Take an Extra $50 Off My Favorite Mattress With This Code
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Nolah's Evolution is the mattress I personally sleep on as a certified sleep coach, and it's on sale pre-Presidents' Day.
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https://www.wired.com/story/nolah-evolution-hybrid-mattress-sale-2026/
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d1bf310e819ea85c5ab29725d36a851d43a738ba1c19e8a0f241af79f6367c56
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2026-01-15T21:14:23+00:00
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Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
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OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI.
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https://www.wired.com/story/inside-openai-raid-on-thinking-machines-lab/
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bf65744404f195ec0991c99d61c796176f2c06bd28127d3aed4f603ce92df56b
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2026-01-15T19:30:14+00:00
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Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
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X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.
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https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-grok-undressing-problem-isnt-fixed/
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c5b02c5cb42f29aa2da7680db3c258f97a915d31b985d828155afed77d1831a4
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2026-01-15T19:24:56+00:00
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Save $50 on the OnePlus Watch 3, Which Has Revolutionary Battery Tech
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Save some cash on this Wear OS smartwatch with a revolutionary battery that can go for five days on a charge (16 days on low-power mode).
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https://www.wired.com/story/oneplus-watch-3-deal-126/
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2026-01-15T18:54:23+00:00
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Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity
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Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
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https://www.wired.com/story/why-ice-can-kill-with-impunity/
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2026-01-15T18:24:51+00:00
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OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs
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Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
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https://www.wired.com/story/openai-invests-in-sam-altmans-new-brain-tech-startup-merge-labs/
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a2ed0fa6f70e670412fdf8d0a3c74513940141357144ed8749245645c15d067c
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2026-01-15T18:22:33+00:00
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Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’
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The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.
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https://www.wired.com/story/california-and-new-york-are-next/
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2026-01-15T17:40:41+00:00
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Hands On With Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, an AI Agent That Actually Works
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Cowork is a user-friendly version of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI-powered tool that’s built for file management and basic computing tasks. Here’s what it's like to use it.
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https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claude-cowork-agent/
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2026-01-15T13:04:00+00:00
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9 Best Blind Boxes—Bag Charms, Plush Pendants, and More (2026)
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In the market for a mystery treat? There’s more out there than Labubu. We bought a bunch of blind boxes online, and these are our favorites.
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https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-blind-boxes/
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2026-01-15T13:00:00+00:00
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Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSAC Conference
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The longtime cybersecurity professional says she’s taking the helm of the legacy security organization at “an inflection point” for tech and the world beyond.
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https://www.wired.com/story/former-cisa-director-jen-easterly-will-lead-rsa-conference/
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2026-01-15T12:30:00+00:00
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What Is VO2 Max? Here’s What You Need to Know About the Longevity Metric (2026)
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VO2 max can predict cardiorespiratory health and longevity, but only if you understand what the number can and can’t tell you.
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https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-vo2-max/
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2026-01-15T12:00:00+00:00
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Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
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Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
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https://www.wired.com/story/google-fast-pair-bluetooth-audio-accessories-vulnerability-patches/
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2026-01-15T12:00:00+00:00
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Livestream: Welcome to the Chinese Century
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Join our livestream—and pose a question to WIRED’s panel of experts—on China’s dominance, influence, and how it is rewriting the future.
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https://www.wired.com/story/livestream-welcome-to-the-chinese-century/
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2026-01-15T12:00:00+00:00
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The Tea App Is Back With a New Website
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Months after major data leaks, the app where women leave Yelp-style reviews about men is relaunching with a new website. It’s not back on iOS, but the Android app has new AI features.
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-tea-app-is-back-with-a-new-website/
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2026-01-15T11:30:00+00:00
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The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
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The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.
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https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-centers/
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2026-01-15T11:30:00+00:00
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Asus ROG Falcata Review: A Split Gaming Keyboard
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With the looks and speed of a gaming keyboard and the comfort of an ergonomic keyboard, the Falcata is a unique and expensive hybrid for a niche audience.
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https://www.wired.com/review/asus-rog-falcata/
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2026-01-15T10:30:00+00:00
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Lizn Hearpieces Review: Affordable but Uncomfortable Hearing Aids
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These odd-looking hearing aids double as solid earbuds, but comfort is a major issue.
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https://www.wired.com/review/lizn-hearpieces/
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Technology
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2026-01-15T10:30:00+00:00
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Wikipedia’s Existential Threats Feel Greater Than Ever
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As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public that may no longer believe in its ideals.
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https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedias-existential-threats-have-never-been-greater/
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Technology
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5a65982f025e433e34d83cfc16f13c6bb8c3cbdd80871374df134f2d33ef600e
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2026-01-15T10:02:00+00:00
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Our Favorite Coway Air Purifiers Are on Sale (2026)
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Breathe easier with these discounts on one of WIRED’s favorite air purifier brands, including an option for large rooms.
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https://www.wired.com/story/coway-air-purifier-deals-january-2026/
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2026-01-15T00:40:28+00:00
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Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
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The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.
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https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/
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0c75221c45c221553f1b3d7ed8b6792ad9273fd8f3fa37bc3fc122c8de6748da
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2026-01-14T22:48:32+00:00
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Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
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The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.
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https://www.wired.com/story/backlash-against-ice-policing-tactics-grows-in-silicon-valley/
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a242016923c0666540a4c8062b59916aa56d895684661d413504dd365e4e2e21
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2026-01-14T20:09:21+00:00
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Neuroscientists Decipher Procrastination: A Brain Mechanism Explains Why People Leave Certain Tasks for Later
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New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.
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https://www.wired.com/story/neuroscience-procrastination-brain-mechanism-task-avoidance/
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Technology
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2026-01-14T19:48:11+00:00
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Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube
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Lume Cube has a variety of marked-down lighting products to help revamp your home office.
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https://www.wired.com/story/lume-edge-light-deal-126/
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Technology
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2026-01-14T19:00:00+00:00
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AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
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AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.
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https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-hacking-inflection-point/
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Technology
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2026-01-14T18:54:40+00:00
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Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls
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A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.
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https://www.wired.com/story/verizon-outage-knocks-out-us-mobile-service-including-some-911-calls/
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Technology
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2026-01-14T16:00:00+00:00
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Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore
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In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated.
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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-proud-boys-ice/
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Technology
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8ce5ef122c6a65223b2461b7f1248f06d8091edb5d0e8163ae7a3ab00ffa5bf0
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2026-01-14T15:59:20+00:00
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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
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Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.
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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-warned-of-a-tren-de-aragua-invasion-us-intel-told-a-different-story/
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