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Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·12d ago
Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover - Date: - August 14, 2026 - Source: - Stanford University - Summary: - Scientists have discovered that the aging human brain...
A photographic memory is wishful thinking
Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús·12d ago
In The Sheep Detectives, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything.
Scientists make a seaweed coating that beats the fridge for cutting food waste
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce·12d ago
A self-assembling coating made from seaweed and zinc can keep fruit fresher and lasting longer than even the cool interior of a fridge.
A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·12d ago
A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself - Date: - August 14, 2026 - Source: - Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry - Summary: - A surprising stress-related signal may help the brain repair...
Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·12d ago
Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains - Date: - August 14, 2026 - Source: - American Academy of Neurology - Summary: - Women who used estrogen-only hormone therapy...
Northeast Indian Literature That Interrogates the Nation - Electric Literature
Electric Literatureby Aruni Kashyap·12d ago
Northeast Indian Literature That Interrogates the Nation These books highlight a unique region that has traditionally been politically, culturally, and racially otherized from the Indian mainland...
The Great Romance Slump - Longreads
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells·12d ago
I used to be in a friend group chat called “Tinder Spinsters,” a group of girls offering support as we navigated the tumultuous dating world.
Here’s Why I Built an AI Chatbot for My Dad’s Prison Tablet
The Marshall Projectby Ivy Scott·12d ago
Technology analyst CJ Jones was inspired to learn to code after years talking on the phone with his father, Charles Jones Sr., who is currently incarcerated in Missouri state prison.
Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
ProPublicaby Andy Mannix·12d ago
Reporting Highlights - Inflated Claims: HSI deployed its tech platform to find noncitizens on voter rolls, despite warnings from agency insiders that it would lead to an “ungodly” number of false...
19 Creepy Catacombs Around the World You Can Visit
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen·12d ago
Catacombs—underground rooms and tunnels used as cemeteries—date back to first-century Rome, but the most famous (and infamous) were created across Europe in the 17th century.
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·12d ago
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success By Maria Popova Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real.
In-Orbit Services Market to Generate $3 Billion in Revenue Over the Next Decade
SpaceNewsby Novaspace·12d ago
Paris, France | August 2026 – Novaspace’s latest In-Orbit Services Markets report projects that emerging in-orbit services will generate approximately $3 billion in cumulative service revenues over...
High-speed microscopy reveals electrical activity across the brain
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News·12d ago
Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as...
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
ProPublicaby Ellis Simani·12d ago
Reporting Highlights - Philanthropy’s Gatekeepers: Donor-advised fund sponsors control $327 billion in giving, granting them vast power to decide which charities can receive donor dollars.
The EPA's data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey·12d ago
Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same question.
Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can
Gristby Frida Garza·12d ago
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in place — afflicting large swaths of the country.
Cheap Drones, Dry Taps: The Iran War Opens a New Era of Water Infrastructure Risk
War on the Rocksby Morgan D. Bazilian·12d ago
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Kazakhstan alleges Big Oil corruption tainted $10.7 billion in contracts, delayed key oil project - ICIJ
ICIJby Thomas Rowley·12d ago
The Kazakh government is claiming in a confidential arbitration that international oil giants awarded $10.7 billion in contracts at the Kashagan oil field which had been compromised by self-dealing...
New US security entities hint at more Latin American operations
Defense Oneby Thomas Dolzall, Forecast International·12d ago
New US security entities hint at more Latin American operations A new task force and coordinating body suggest SOUTHCOM senses a need for cooperation in the region.
As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns
Defense Oneby Patrick Tucker·12d ago
As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns The White House revives “privateering for the digital age” by authorizing cyber firms to strike foreign targets.
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