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Mercury: The planet that shouldn't exist

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might solve the mystery.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Science • bbc.com
Protecting the ‘Holiday heart:’ What to know about heart health during the holiday season, new smart watch technologies

Dr. Nassir Marrouche is director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at Tulane University with a subspecialty in electrophysiology. He treats atrial fibrillation, heart arrhythmia, irregular heartbeats, sudden cardiac death

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Dec 28, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Health • nola.com
💰 Saudi clubs admit: signing Vinicius Junior is a possibility

Ramón Planes, sporting director of Al Ittihad, has fueled the 'Vinicius Case'. The Spanish executive has not hesitated to stir up rumors placing Vinicius Júnior at the center of the ambitious Saudi ...

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Dec 27, 2025 • 4:55 AM EST • Sports • onefootball.com
2025: The science stories that stopped us in our tracks

From ancient footprints to planet parades, 2025 science amazed us with discoveries on Earth and beyond.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 7:42 PM EST • Science • bbc.com
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Ospreys soar to bonus-point win against Scarlets

Ospreys celebrate the west Wales bragging rights as they overcome Scarlets 26-19 in an attritional United Rugby Championship basement battle in Llanelli.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 2:49 PM EST • Sports • bbc.com
My Most Anticipated Video Game Of 2026 Might Be This Simple Vibes-Based Lanesplitting Indie

"LANESPLIT" is a simple game from a one-person developer, and at my advanced age of 29 that's the kind of game I have the time and energy to play after work.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 2:25 PM EST • Technology • jalopnik.com
'What the heck is this?' James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 1:05 PM EST • Science • livescience.com
Trump appears in new batch of Epstein documents

The Justice Department released a new batch of documents from Epstein investigation. President Donald Trump’s name is mentioned many times in the documents, including in references to flight records related to Epstein’s private plane. Authorities have not accused Trump of criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein. CNN’s Marshall Cohen reports.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 5:08 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Scientists from UChicago, other institutions discover bizarre lemon-shaped planet orbiting neutron star
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Dec 23, 2025 • 3:43 PM EST • Science • cbsnews.com
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The disunity of science is a feature, not a bug

Mathematical models wield miraculous power, but mistaking them for reality has trapped science in a destructive quest for a “Theory of Everything.” Physicist and philosopher Ragner Fjelland argues that this leads to bloated, Frankenstein theories kept alive by clumsy, ad-hoc amendments, which reduce rather than boost science’s power. Fjelland calls for a radical shift in our attitude: we must reorientate towards creating entirely new theories, celebrating rather than lamenting disunity and diversity in science. Science, from the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present day, has more or less developed in a “reductionist” way. The fundamental assumption is that all sciences may be ordered in a hierarchy that can be represented as an upside-down pyramid. At the top we find the human sciences, and at the bottom physics. Strong (or “ontological”) reductionism maintains that all theories at one level can be completely reduced to the lower level, all the way down to theories of atoms and elementary particles, or whatever is “at the bottom.” In the end, all diversity in the world can be unified in one fundamental theory. Hence it is called a final theory, or a Theory of Everything.One of the central figures in developing the idea of a Theory of Everything is the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 for his work. He emphasizes the non-empirical status of the theory:There exists no closely resembling alternative theory. This means that any slight change brought about in the rules would make the theory unlikely or inelegant. The theory will be a "package deal": take it, or leave it. This should hold both for the local laws and for the boundary conditions.This endeavor is not new. On the contrary, it goes all the way back to the birth of Western philosophy 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians made regular astronomical observations during a period of 600 years, from 747 BCE until 150 ACE. They developed mathematical techniques to predict astronomical phenomena, but they made no attempts at explaining them. However, the Greeks developed models, both material and theoretical, to explain the observed phenomena.The best example is Plato’s late dialogue Timaeus. Here he introduces a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who has constructed the universe according to an original plan. Plato seems to have thought that the original plan is what is actually real, while the material world is merely an imperfect realization of it. He therefore does not, in the Timaeus, reconstruct the material universe, but the original plan, which can then be used to explain the material universe.Plato’s aim in producing a theoretical model is to reconstruct the original plan. That is what he carries out in Timaeus—and some modern physicists have embarked on the same project. For example, Einstein’s basic attitude is reflected in the title of Abraham Pais’ biography: “Subtle is the Lord...,” echoing Einstein’s comment, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” In an interview Einstein compared our situation to a child who enters a huge library. The child knows that someone has written the books, but he does not know the languages in which they are written. He suspects that there is a mysterious order, but he does not know what it is.___“We have all been working in what Husserl called the Galilean style; that is, we have all been making abstract mathematical models of the universe to which at least the physicists give a higher degree of reality than they accord the ordinary world of sensation.”Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)___This Platonist view is contrary to a widespread impression of science, symbolized by the picture of the “father” of modern science, Galileo Galilei, with his telescope. According to this impression, Galileo liberated himself from the dominating metaphysics of his day—basically Aristotelian philosophy—and constructed a telescope that he directed towards the sky, showing that Jupiter has four moons. He also performed experiments with bronze balls rolling down inclined planes and found the law of freely falling bodies.However, in other cases Galileo emphasized the unreliability of our senses. It is easy to see why. He defended Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, we are not at rest at the center of the universe, but moving at a tremendous speed through space. Why don’t we observe this motion? Galileo praises Copernicus because “with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict.” In other places he directly refers to Plato. SUGGESTED VIEWING The quest for a final theory With Michio Kaku Galileo’s Platonism goes back to his early writings. In The Assayer, published as early as 1623, Galileo compared the universe to a grand book that is written in the language of mathematics, and “its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.” Therefore, things that cannot be described by mathematics—for example, colors, smells and odors—are not real. They are merely subjective.This division into subjective and objective, advocated by Galileo and his younger contemporary René Descartes, is normally associated with a mechanistic world view, which is regarded as the opposite of Platonism. When we reduce something to, for example, molecules and atoms, we move “downwards.” In contrast, the Platonist moves “upwards,” to abstract entities. However, it only shows that when we address fundamental questions, we should be careful in applying everyday spatial metaphors like “up” and “down.”___Nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world.___The endeavor of finding a Theory of Everything has been heavily criticized. In 2006, the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin published “The Crisis in Fundamental Physics.” He argued that one of the most fundamental principles of science is that we should only regard theories as scientific if we have the possibility to show that they are false by experiments. Although he did not refer to Karl Popper, other critics have referred to Popper and argued that a theory is not scientific if it cannot be falsified (see for example Ellis & Silk 2014).These were not the first physicists to be anti-reductionists. In 1972, the journal Science published an article by the physicist Philip Anderson with the title “More Is Different.” This is the kind of article a scientist would normally write only after he has won a Nobel Prize. However, Anderson won the Nobel Prize for physics five years later, in 1977. The article is amazing, not primarily because it argues in favor of anti-reductionism in general, but because it argues for anti-reductionism within physics itself. Anderson’s conclusion was:At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.We may say that Plato started the “unity of science movement,” based on Euclidean geometry as the model of all knowledge. A distinguishing mark of geometry is that all possible constructions can be reduced to a few fundamental principles. We have to acknowledge that this approach has limitations. In general, we can easily model technological systems. In addition, we may construct simplified and idealized models that capture important aspects of systems, from various perspectives and for various purposes. But nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world. In a complex system, each level has its distinct, emergent, properties that are characteristic of this level. Therefore, a complex system should be investigated at different levels and from different perspectives. Instead of exclusively pursuing a scientific ideal based on the unity of science, we should acknowledge the diversity—or even the disunity—of science.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • iai.tv
What to get Lane Kiffin, Nick Saban for Christmas? Our college football shopping list

I’ve put off my college football Christmas shopping long enough. Let’s take care of this so I can get to the eggnog.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 6:05 AM EST • Sports • usatoday.com
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun

Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS team member, University of New Brunswick, Canada

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Dec 22, 2025 • 8:37 PM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
I Grew Up on Atari—Now I'm Reliving It on Gamestation Go in 2025

Commentary: Wander down Gen X gamer memory lane with 200 games, including Pac-Man, Asteroids, Berserk and Centipede.

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Dec 22, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Technology • cnet.com
The Space Advocate Newsletter, December 2025

The long game.

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Dec 22, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • planetary.org
Subaru Telescope reveals a hidden giant planet

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi, the OASIS survey tracked subtle stellar wobbles to pinpoint where unseen worlds were lurking—then captured them directly.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Collaboration drives Telluride Science

Collaboration sits at the heart of Telluride Science’s mission, uniting global thought leaders to solve societal and planetary challenges.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 1:00 PM EST • Science • telluridenews.com
Top Eugene-Springfield high school fall sports moments of 2025

From walk-off wins to dominant state championship performances, athletes from Lane County made the 2025 fall sports season one to remember.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 8:01 AM EST • Sports • registerguard.com
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Global warming could trigger the next ice age

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that bury huge amounts of carbon in the ocean. In low-oxygen conditions, this process can spiral out of control, cooling Earth far beyond its original state. While this won’t save us from modern climate change, it may explain Earth’s most extreme ancient ice ages.

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Dec 21, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Ole Miss easily beats Tulane again to set up rematch with Georgia in Sugar Bowl
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Dec 20, 2025 • 7:09 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Transformational Astrophysics And Exoplanet Science With Habitable Worlds Observatory's High Resolution Imager

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be NASA's flagship space telescope of the 2040s

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Dec 20, 2025 • 4:05 PM EST • Science • astrobiology.com
Ole Miss vs. Tulane prediction, odds: 2025 College Football Playoff picks from proven model

SportsLine's model reveals its Tulane Green Wave vs. Ole Miss Rebels best bets for the CFP first round

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Dec 20, 2025 • 12:58 PM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
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Patriots down leading tackler vs. Ravens

The New England Patriots enter Week 16 without leading tackler Robert Spillane as team prepares for a huge road matchup vs. Ravens.

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Dec 20, 2025 • 9:46 AM EST • Sports • clutchpoints.com
Science with Stevie: Winter Solstice

Meteorologist Stevie Daniels explains what the winter solstice is and how it impacts various areas on planet earth in this Science with Stevie segment!

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Dec 20, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Science • wmar2news.com
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How to Watch Ole Miss vs. Tulane: CFP First Round Time, TV Channel, Live Stream

Learn which TV channel or how to live stream the Ole Miss Rebels vs. Tulane Green Wave CFP first round game, Saturday, Dec. 20.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 11:28 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
Business affected by UPS plane crash regain more access as cleanup continues

Crews continue to make progress cleaning up near the site of the UPS plane crash.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 6:21 PM EST • Business • wlky.com
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Science Quiz: Sea Turtle Sex and Fruit-Shaped Planets

Put your science knowledge to the test with this week’s news quiz. Play now.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • scientificamerican.com
Mississippi-Tulane predictions: CFP picks for first-round rematch

It didn't go well for Tulane the first time it met Mississippi this season. Can the Green Wave change things in the playoff? We make our predictions.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 6:01 AM EST • Sports • usatoday.com
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Where to Find Lorwyn Eclipsed Previews

Our return to the plane of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is here! Prepare for a pastoral preview season when Lorwyn Eclipsed debuts on January 5, 2026.

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Dec 19, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Technology • magic.wizards.com
NASA Webb Telescope Discovers Lemon-Shaped Planet, the ‘Stretchiest’ Ever Seen

An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 9:32 PM EST • Science • nytimes.com
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4743-4749:  Polygons in the Hollow

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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Dec 18, 2025 • 8:30 PM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
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Nick Saban: Group of 5 should have separate College Football Playoff

Tulane, James Madison part of this year’s CFP

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Dec 18, 2025 • 4:45 PM EST • Sports • al.com
Witness video of fiery business jet crash at North Carolina regional airport

A business jet crashed Thursday at a regional airport in North Carolina used by NASCAR teams and Fortune 500 companies, erupting in a large fire and killing multiple people, authorities said.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 2:00 PM EST • Business • apnews.com
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New Hubble images may solve the case of a disappearing exoplanet

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of planetary construction.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 2:00 PM EST • Science • sciencenews.org
Trump's CMS is all-in on health tech

The federal government is quietly building a fast lane for chronic care tech, with the help of several entrepreneurs.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 1:45 PM EST • Health • axios.com
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Business jet crashes in North Carolina with

The plane crashed while landing at the Statesville Airport outside of Charlotte.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 12:38 PM EST • Business • bbc.com
Cessna business jet crashes at North Carolina airport; plane owned by NASCAR driver reports say

A private jet crashed Thursday morning at a North Carolina regional airport and the wreckage burst into flames.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 11:57 AM EST • Business • wsbtv.com
DHS rolled out a new plane. Here’s why it might look familiar

The Department of Homeland Security’s newest airplane has a very familiar, very Trumpian look.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
NYC’s viral grocery store founder breaks silence: ‘I’m an active target’ — and it’s good for business

From $27 beef salads to $700 caviar, this New York City grocery store became a cultural flashpoint through social media buzz, proving controversy boosts business.

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Dec 18, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
Meadow Lane CEO on going viral, stirring controversy: It’s ‘very good for business’

The founder and CEO of New York City’s newest gourmet grocer Meadow Lane, Sammy Nussdorf, speaks to Fox News Digital about the intense and highly public opening of his small business.

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Dec 17, 2025 • 4:33 PM EST • Business • foxbusiness.com
A new hunt for an Earth analog begins

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly for years in the most focused hunt yet for an Earth twin.

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Dec 17, 2025 • 1:00 PM EST • Science • sciencenews.org
2025 was Robby Hoffman’s year, but don’t call her an overnight success

Comedian Robby Hoffman reflects on the path that led her to her first Netflix stand-up special, "Wake Up," directed by John Mulaney.

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Dec 17, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Entertainment • latimes.com
Samsung may respond to the iPhone 18 Pro by copying the Galaxy S9 camera

Apple may have prompted Samsung to go down memory lane and bring back a long-forgotten camera feature.

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Dec 16, 2025 • 7:27 PM EST • Technology • phonearena.com
NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition

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Dec 16, 2025 • 10:00 AM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth

To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.

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Dec 16, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Science • opb.org
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Book Review: ‘Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature’

'Free Gifts' is a book for deep thinkers wishing to delve into the ideas that formed our society and are now remaking the physical planet.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Politics • earth.org
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A JetBlue jet had a near-miss with an Air Force plane close to Venezuela. Cockpit audio shows how it happened.

A JetBlue flight was ascending out of Curaçao, near Venezuela, when the pilot spotted an Air Force plane. "It's outrageous," he told ATC.

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Dec 15, 2025 • 7:31 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
JWST Catches Record-Breaking Planet Sprouting Two Enormous Tails

Tylos is one weird world.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 9:05 PM EST • Science • sciencealert.com
People and planet: How human and planetary health are deeply connected

The health of people and the planet are inextricably intertwined, with time spent in nature positively improving our lives and inspiring us to help keep Earth healthy.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Health • nationalgeographic.com
Scientists Find the Strongest Evidence Yet of an Atmosphere on a Molten Rocky Exoplanet

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system. Observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b suggest that the exoplanet is surrounded by a thick blanket of gases above a global magma ocean.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 3:54 PM EST • Science • universetoday.com
Supernova immersion model suggests Earth-like planets are more common in the universe

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a nearby ...

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Dec 14, 2025 • 1:00 PM EST • Science • phys.org
See how American's old and new Airbus narrowbody planes compare

American has axed first class for a single business cabin with beds and doors. The plane is overall chic and modern, but there's a row I'd avoid.

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Dec 14, 2025 • 4:56 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Beneath the icy face of Alaska, a long theorized ‘connector fault’ may be revealed in the wake of major earthquake

After a magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier earlier this month, scientists believe a “connector fault” may exist between established cuts in the thick planetary crust.

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Dec 13, 2025 • 3:08 PM EST • Science • adn.com
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Gridiron Time Machine: 5 Bears Week 15 Flashbacks

Hope aboard the Gridiron Time Machine with @iamcogs and take a trip down down Bears memory lane!

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Dec 13, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Sports • windycitygridiron.com
Michigan Science Center debuts "moonshot" planetarium renovation

After a year-long renovation, the Michigan Science Center reopened its planetarium Friday, showcasing technology upgrades and a new flagship show.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 9:20 PM EST • Science • detroitnews.com
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Michigan Science Center unveils brand new planetarium with 8K projection

Guests experience a demonstration of the Michigan Science Center's newly renovated planetarium during a VIP preview event on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 in Detroit.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 9:20 PM EST • Science • detroitnews.com
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Flandrau Planetarium and Science Center celebrates 50 years of curiosity

The building now hosts exhibits ranging from space satellites to great white sharks.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • news.azpm.org
The greatest Tyne-Wear derby moments?

When you have a rivalry as fierce and as storied as the Tyne-Wear derby, you are never short of memorable moments. With Sunderland and Newcastle set to face each other for the first time in the Premier League since 2016 on Sunday, we have taken a trip down Memory Lane to find some of the standout moments. Neither team came into the match in great form, but there was particular pressure on Newcastle boss Ruud Gullit after three defeats in the opening four games.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 4:33 AM EST • Sports • bbc.com
Scientists have been studying the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e. Could it harbor alien life? : Short Wave

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also have an atmosphere and water; plus, you should orbit your star from a nice mid-range distance — in the "Goldilocks Zone" of habitability. Until recently, you would be competing against TRAPPIST-1 e. It's a planet outside of our solar system. TRAPPIST-1 e is also only 40 light years away, rocky and the same size as Earth, which prompted researchers to investigate whether it also has an atmosphere — and the potential for alien life. A team of researchers has been investigating TRAPPIST-1 e to learn more about its potential. Their answers, recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, say a lot not just about this exoplanet, but about how scientists should refocus their hunt for alien life.Interested in more space science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org.Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.

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Dec 12, 2025 • 3:00 AM EST • Science • npr.org
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Flandrau Planetarium and Science Center celebrates 50 years of curiosity

The building now hosts exhibits ranging from space satellites to great white sharks.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 11:29 PM EST • Science • azpm.org
FMOL Health has purchased this property near Our Lady of the Lake

FMOL Health has acquired a kidney care facility property on Flanders Drive near Essen Lane. The system purchased the site through Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc. from Flanders Building LLC f… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. We are glad you enjoy reading Business Report. Continue reading this story and get ACCESS to all […]

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Dec 11, 2025 • 11:00 AM EST • Health • businessreport.com
NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system, as

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Dec 11, 2025 • 10:00 AM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
Braid and The Witness Creator Jonathan Blow Teases The Game Awards Announcement

Jonathan Blow has just "announced an announcement," teasing he just may be getting on a plane today to join a "gaming industry event coming up." All roads lead to The Game Awards!

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Dec 11, 2025 • 5:46 AM EST • Technology • ign.com
Plan for new business jet hangars could boost revenue at underused Sikorsky Airport

The city's airport commission approved negotiations with Sky Harbour to build and manage business plane sites at the Stratford-based facility.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Business • ctpost.com
Dine in the 419: Incredibowl Entertainment

The former Southwyck Lanes has an extreme makeover waiting for you to see for yourself. We’re talking more than just bowling.

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Dec 10, 2025 • 5:08 PM EST • Entertainment • 13abc.com
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Scientists discover a new state of matter at Earth’s center

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching seismic observations that have puzzled scientists for decades. The mobility of these light elements may also contribute energy to Earth’s magnetic field. The findings reshape models of Earth’s interior and could apply to other rocky planets.

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Dec 10, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Jesse Tyler Ferguson recalls blunder to Nathan Lane after the death of Robin Williams

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is recalling a slight blunder he made to Nathan Lane after the death of Robin Williams, his costar in the beloved queer comedy 'The Birdcage': 'I'm such an idiot.'

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Dec 9, 2025 • 11:53 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Galleries - Ames Earth Science

Earth Science (SG) Landing – Menu BarHomeWho We AreWho We AreEarth Science Division (SG)Biospheric Science Branch (SGE)Atmospheric Science Branch (SGG)Project Management Branch (SGP)Airborne Science Branch (ASP)What We DoResearch TopicsMissionsStoriesFeaturesHighlights & NuggetsAwards & RecognitionVisiting ScienceContact Us Ames Earth Science Galleries Researchers from Ames’ Earth Science division travel all over the country – and the globe – to study the planet and the processes within. Take a look through the galleries below to get a peak into the aircraft and labs our scientists study in, and the oceans, fires, and volcanoes they are looking at. Complete Ames Earth Science Story/Gallery Repository about Ames Earth Science Galleries Galleries Calibration at the Airborne Sensor Facility Gallery13 ImagesFireSense Fort Stewart Prescribed Burn Campaign Gallery131 ImagesCRATER Gallery112 ImagesSARP East 2025 Gallery30 ImagesSARP West 2025 Gallery33 ImagesOCEANOS 2024 Gallery92 ImagesCoral Reef Gallery53 ImagesFireSense Missoula Deployment Gallery78 Images2023 SARP West Gallery67 Images

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Dec 9, 2025 • 3:08 PM EST • Science • nasa.gov
Search for Life Should Be Top Science Priority for First Human Landing on Mars, Says New Report

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of discovery on another planet. A new National Academies report identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human missions to Mars and says searching for evidence of existing or past life on the planet should be the top priority.

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Dec 9, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • nationalacademies.org
The Most Egregious Double Standard in Sports

For college coaches, greed is just business.

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Dec 9, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • theatlantic.com
Troy Aikman’s guiding principle for ‘Monday Night Football’: ‘I try to be fair’

In an interview, the longtime NFL analyst covered a range of topics, including analytics, Lane Kiffin and slinging the ball at age 59.

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Dec 9, 2025 • 6:05 AM EST • Sports • nytimes.com
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Sensory play business Squish opens downtown

Kids in Marshalltown have a new play option – Squish, a downtown hands-on sensory play business. Owners Bobbie Slaney and Tiffany Fouts started the business inside the Hellberg’s Jewelers building at 13 W. Main St., with a soft opening on Monday. According to Slaney, the inspiration came when they saw there were not a lot […]

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Dec 8, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Business • timesrepublican.com
61 businesses sign onto letter opposing full BAT lanes on 82nd Avenue

With an update on the project expected to come at a TriMet Board meeting this Wednesday, groups on both sides of this issue are making their voices heard.

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Dec 8, 2025 • 6:45 PM EST • Business • bikeportland.org
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AI Browsers Aren’t Smart Enough Yet to Take Over the Internet

A crop of under-baked new products is splitting the internet into two lanes, forcing website developers to rethink who their pages are for.

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Dec 8, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Technology • bloomberg.com
The Truth About Airplane and Hospital Air, According to Science

There’s a certain logic in thinking that the air in a hospital or airplane is filthy, teeming with viruses, bacteria, and whatnot...

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Dec 7, 2025 • 3:46 PM EST • Science • vice.com
JIM CLOERN: The scientist and science I mourn

By Ariel Rubissow Okamoto A man died recently who was one of my heroes. Inside his big brain lay the secrets of San Francisco Bay. In one sentence he could explain the relationships between the tiny plants drifting aimlessly in the shallows, the muscular salmon leaping upstream, and the health of the planet. He had a warm smile, a curl to his hair, a ready chuckle. But I did not know this man well. For decades he ran a monthly data […]

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Dec 7, 2025 • 12:16 PM EST • Science • mavensnotebook.com
Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says

Apologies to our art director, who must depict a plane plunging after being blasted by cosmic rays, which is something that actually happened.

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Dec 7, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Technology • futurism.com
Strangely bleached rocks on Mars hint that the Red Planet was once a tropical oasis

Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical conditions, new Perseverance observations hint.

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Dec 7, 2025 • 9:00 AM EST • Science • livescience.com
PHOTOS | Business trip up north

Check out the top photos of the Washington Commanders getting on the plane for their Week 14 matchup with the Minnesota Vikings.

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Dec 6, 2025 • 6:34 PM EST • Business • commanders.com
Decades Later, Scientists Finally Explain Voyager 2’s Bizarre Readings at Uranus

Powerful waves unleashed by solar storms could be the key to understanding extreme radiation. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) researchers now think they have found the answer to a puzzle that has lingered for nearly four decades involving Uranus and its unusual radiation environment. When Vo

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Dec 6, 2025 • 5:14 PM EST • Science • scitechdaily.com
People Are Surprised To Learn That The Closest Planet To Neptune Turns Out To Be Mercury

Everything you've been taught is a lie.

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Dec 6, 2025 • 6:16 AM EST • Science • iflscience.com
NJ plane fiasco shows how 'cosmic rays' from another galaxy can...

"The pilots recovered quickly, but yes, it could have been worse."

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Dec 5, 2025 • 5:30 PM EST • Technology • nypost.com
Cosmic rays are cause behind JetBlue flight suddenly plunging in the sky. This is why it happened

The plane suddenly lost altitude while traveling from Cancun to New Jersey in October.

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Dec 5, 2025 • 5:04 PM EST • Technology • wsbtv.com
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A boom in construction of AI data centers is facing backlash over soaring electricity and water usage, and the resulting utility hikes. Plus, to save spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, one plan suggests killing thousands of barred owls. And, geologist Anjana Khatwa explains how embracing wonder and awe adds to our scientific understanding of the rocks that form our planet.

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Dec 5, 2025 • 4:24 PM EST • Science • sciencefriday.com
What Is A Superhabitable Planet And Have We Found Any?

While we’re looking for Earth 2.0, might we stumble on an upgrade?

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Dec 5, 2025 • 12:29 PM EST • Science • iflscience.com
Science Quiz: Strange Weather and Desert Planets

Put your science knowledge to the test with this week’s news quiz. Play now.

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Dec 5, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • scientificamerican.com
Meet the billionaire pushing taxpayer-funded school vouchers

How one of the richest people on the planet presses his pet issue: school choice

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Dec 5, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • washingtonpost.com
NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar

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Dec 4, 2025 • 3:59 PM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
To counter climate denial, UN scientists must be 'clear' about human role: IPCC chief

With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN's climate science body must tell the world in a "very clear way" that humans are heating the planet, its chairman told AFP. Jim Skea, a Scottish professor, chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which held a five-day meeting in a skyscraper outside Paris this week to begin drafting the next major UN climate assessment.I mean, we concluded in our last report, very simple conclusion: It is

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Dec 4, 2025 • 2:08 PM EST • Science • yahoo.com
Planet Earth has never had so many billionaires

The number of billionaires worldwide – and their combined wealth – reached record highs this year, buoyed in particular by gains in tech stocks, Swiss bank UBS has found.

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Dec 4, 2025 • 11:48 AM EST • Business • cnn.com
Jackson selected as editor for the Planetary Science Journal

Brian Jackson, professor of physics at Boise State University and Director of the Central Idaho...

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Dec 4, 2025 • 11:01 AM EST • Science • boisestate.edu
Gran Turismo 7 Spec III Update 1.65 & Power Pack DLC Now Available

Ten weeks after it was first announced, the bumper Gran Turismo 7 Spec III update is now available to players worldwide, bringing a host of new content and features to get to grips with. If you didn't check in ahead of time and missed out on the preload -- only the second time a GT7 update has be

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Dec 4, 2025 • 7:30 AM EST • Technology • gtplanet.net
Business concerns stall plan to let Chicagoans flag crosswalk, bus and bike lane parking scofflaws

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) agreed to put a hold on his proposed citizen reporting ordinance in hopes of striking a compromise that could appease the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.

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Dec 3, 2025 • 3:20 PM EST • Business • chicago.suntimes.com
How 2 issues in a week with the world's most popular plane spooked Airbus investors

Airbus has faced a challenging few days as it issued a software fix for its best-selling A320 family before confirming an issue with metal panels.

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Dec 3, 2025 • 12:09 PM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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I flew in Air India's posh business-class seat for 15 hours. I didn't want to get off the plane.

My long-haul international flight in Air India's business class had great suite-style seats, storage, and amenities that made the upgrade worth it.

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Dec 3, 2025 • 9:29 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
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Undermanned Spurs set sights on surging Magic

Starters Stephon Castle and Victor Wembanyama were left behind when the San Antonio Spurs boarded a plane Tuesday night to begin a three-game road trip.

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Dec 3, 2025 • 7:58 AM EST • Sports • cbssports.com
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Rugby World Cup 2027 draw: Englaned and Wales paired together

England and Wales are paired up in the pool stages at the 2027 Rugby World Cup, with Scotland and Ireland also drawn together.

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Dec 3, 2025 • 5:02 AM EST • Sports • bbc.com
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KSAT team shares photos from their high school sports days

Members of the KSAT team took a trip down memory lane during KSAT Sports Now on Tuesday, sharing photos from their days playing high school sports.

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Dec 2, 2025 • 11:36 PM EST • Sports • ksat.com
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Early Earth’s sky may have created the first ingredients for life

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules linked to life. These sulfur-rich compounds, including certain amino acids, may have formed naturally in the sky. The results suggest early Earth wasn’t starting from zero but may have already been stocked with essential ingredients.

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Dec 2, 2025 • 7:00 PM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
Scientists Uncover New Evidence of Ancient Airbursts That Ravaged Earth Without Leaving Craters

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet unleash extraordinary heat and pressure.

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Dec 2, 2025 • 6:09 PM EST • Science • scitechdaily.com
How to tell time on Mars

Physicists finally know how much faster time moves on the Red Planet.

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Dec 2, 2025 • 2:21 PM EST • Science • popsci.com