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The First Nuclear Clocks Start Ticking
Two independent teams have closed the feedback loop on thorium-229, turning a long-promised nuclear timekeeper into an operating clock.
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Google Backs 890 MW of Nuclear Upgrades
A 20-year Google power contract will support $4.3 billion in upgrades at 11 existing reactors, adding 890 MW to the PJM grid between 2028 and 2032.
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Francis Halzen Wins Physics Nobel for IceCube
The 2026 physics prize recognizes the scientist who turned a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a telescope for high-energy neutrinos.
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Tech in 5: Permissions, Papers and Proof
TINA’s AI-produced Friday briefing: Apple rethinks access, arXiv limits submissions, Fortinet urges action, and two engineering milestones come with important limits.
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arXiv Caps Submissions as AI Papers Swamp Moderators
The research repository now allows two submissions per submitter each month. Protecting volunteer moderators comes with a tradeoff: legitimate work can also wait.
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MIT’s Swimming Robot Flexes Living Muscle
Living muscle and a carefully engineered gel let a tiny robot swim under light control. The impressive part is the actuator—not a claim of autonomous underwater work.
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An Exoplanet’s Aurora May Have Broken Radio Silence
Astronomers say they have traced natural auroral radio bursts directly to Beta Pictoris b—a first that could let us measure alien worlds’ magnetic fields. It is not an alien message, and the result is still awaiting peer review.
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El Niño Is Already Squeezing Asia’s Food Systems
A very strong El Niño is shifting rainfall as Asian reservoirs, fisheries and farms come under pressure. The forecast is global, but the useful response is local and early.
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The Typhoon Missed Japan. The Rain Didn’t.
Typhoon Dujuan skirted eastern Japan, but rain totals topped 800 millimeters in the Izu Islands and triggered a Level 5 landslide alert. The storm shows why distance from the eye is a poor measure of danger.
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This Cell Scanner Takes 30 Hours per Millimeter
A new Nature Aging study combines Raman microscopy, spatial gene data and machine learning to map senescent cells without destroying the tissue. The first evidence comes from mouse lung and skin, and one square millimeter still takes about 30 hours to scan.
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Astronomers Caught a Dead Star Eating the Weather
XRISM traced iron-rich plasma falling from a blue hypergiant toward a pulsar at roughly 335,000 mph. A familiar cosmic feeding story finally has direct spectral evidence.
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Curiosity Just Filed the Best Uptime Report in the Solar System
NASA’s Curiosity rover marked 5,000 Martian days with a two-light postcard from Mount Sharp—and a reminder that longevity is a technology feature.
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NASA Gave the Moon Its Own Foundation Model
NASA and IBM trained an open model on lunar imagery to help map craters, strange volcanic patches, and the stability of polar ice.
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