Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News24 Aug 2026
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust.
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top 87%Mapping thorium's preferred sites could pave the way for nuclear clocks
Phys.orgby Sam Jarman24 Aug 2026
Mapping thorium's preferred sites could pave the way for nuclear clocks Sam Jarman Author For decades, physicists have used a technique called Mössbauer spectroscopy to peer inside solid materials...
Mule helps scientists build the clearest horse and donkey genomes yet
Phys.orgby Jordan Strickler24 Aug 2026
Mule helps scientists build the clearest horse and donkey genomes yet A mule has helped researchers build the most complete reference genomes to date for horses and donkeys, giving scientists...
A 2-degree twist creates a nanoscale grid that traps light energy at room temperature
Phys.orgby K W Wesselink-Schram24 Aug 2026
A 2-degree twist creates a nanoscale grid that traps light energy at room temperature You may have once tried taking a close-up picture of a computer screen and noticed a wavy, rippling effect.
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News24 Aug 2026
Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire?
NASA Research Shows How Sun’s Ancient History Shaped Earth
NASAby Desiree Apodaca; Miles Hatfield24 Aug 2026
At the center of our solar system, the Sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent NASA-funded studies, scientists uncovered how ancient events in the Sun’s history may have helped...
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Know Your Meme Newsfeedby Phillip Hamilton24 Aug 2026
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Fox Business Host Learns NASA's New Telescope Isn't Named After That Nancy Grace
Gizmodoby Matt Novak24 Aug 2026
Nancy Grace Roman was a trailblazer as NASA’s first female executive and the first chief astronomer at the space agency in the 1960s and 70s.
Aerospace demonstrates DiskSats in low-Earth orbit
SpaceNewsby Debra Werner24 Aug 2026
SALT LAKE CITY – The Aerospace Corp. is continuing to demonstrate the viability of pancake-shaped DiskSats in the wake of their December launch on a Rocket Lab Electron.
Precision healthcare could be Taiwan’s strength - Taipei Times
Taipei Times25 Aug 2026
Taiwan has an opportunity to become a global innovation hub for precision health by taking advantage of its strengths in biotechnology and information and communications technology, an academic...
TASA rockets conduct test flights despite heavy rain - Taipei Times
Taipei Times25 Aug 2026
The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) yesterday announced that two research rockets, SST3 and FARCX-1, completed test flights despite heavy rain at the short-term research rocket launch site in Pingtung...
Mechanical memory helps explain how cells adapt their movement to changing environments
Phys.orgby National University24 Aug 2026
Mechanical memory helps explain how cells adapt their movement to changing environments Cells in our bodies squeeze through dense tissue channels, thread past neighboring cells and navigate every...
10 Positions for Enterprise RAG That Mainstream Tutorials Get Wrong | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Kezhan Shi24 Aug 2026
This article is a manifesto of Enterprise Document Intelligence, a series that builds an enterprise RAG system from four bricks.
Soil bacteria share amino acids, helping nearly half survive nutrient gaps
Phys.orgby Vivienne Vent24 Aug 2026
Soil bacteria share amino acids, helping nearly half survive nutrient gaps Bacteria, too, depend on good neighborly relations: A new study by the Osnabrück University, in collaboration with...
Distant galaxies could be far more massive than we thought, scientists say
The Independentby Andrew Griffin24 Aug 2026
Distant galaxies could be far more massive than we thought, scientists say. Far away galaxies, so distant that the light reaching us is from the early universe, could in fact have many more small...
Antarctic bacteria share 'life‑support' genes to survive extreme conditions
Phys.orgby Yongyi Peng; Ry Holland24 Aug 2026
Antarctic bacteria share 'life‑support' genes to survive extreme conditions Antarctica is one of the driest, coldest places on Earth. Very little life survives its extremes.
Hot vs cold: What's the ideal temperature for solar panel efficiency? - Engadget
Engadgetby staff@engadget.com (Husain Parvez)24 Aug 2026
Hot vs cold: What's the ideal temperature for solar panel efficiency? There is a correct answer, but ambient temperature is just one of several variables. Sunlight is a solar panel's best friend.
Making the case for independent science
Phys.orgby Alvin Powell24 Aug 2026
Making the case for independent science Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule ended in the spring, when voters replaced him with Péter Magyar, who has pledged to undo Orbán-led...
Scientists Develop Microbes That Make Vanilla Cookies Out of Plastic Bottles
Gizmodoby Gayoung Lee24 Aug 2026
Chemistry is very strange. Depending on how it’s bonded, the same element can either be the most harmless thing in the world or the most toxic substance imaginable.
Tiny ocean plankton hold clues to the future of Maine lobster
Phys.orgby Heather Johnson24 Aug 2026
Tiny ocean plankton hold clues to the future of Maine lobster The future of Maine's lobster industry may depend on a creature the size of a sesame seed.