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This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age

Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging. Researchers found healthy eye tissue and active proteins specially adapted for seeing blue light in the dim Arctic depths. DNA repair mechanisms may help keep their eyes functioning across centuries. The discovery could eventually offer new clues for protecting human vision as we age.

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Aug 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
JWST finds early galaxies may be 4 times more massive than thought

Astronomers using JWST have discovered that massive early galaxies contain far more small, faint stars than expected. That hidden population could make some of these galaxies three to four times more massive than previous estimates. The finding makes it even harder to explain how enormous, mature galaxies formed so soon after the Big Bang. It could also suggest that planets around low-mass stars were more common in the early universe than scientists realized.

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Aug 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
She’s a Trump acolyte. He’s a ‘gringo Sandinista.’ Meet the Harps.

Trump aide Natalie Harp is estranged from her brother, Preston, who has used social media and recent interviews to criticize her and highlight his own left-wing politics.

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Aug 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Norman Knight: Science fiction birthday twins

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of that person and not the Daily Journal.

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Aug 22 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • dailyjournal.net
Trump Accounts Get an Unlikely Endorser: Gavin Newsom

Mr. Newsom, the governor of California, normally has harsh words for President Trump. But he called the new children’s savings accounts “one of the best things” the president has done.

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Aug 21 • 8:01 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Trump, his clout on the line, to stump for Graham in South Carolina

The president’s political clout is on the line as he heads to South Carolina to campaign for Darline Graham. Several of his endorsed candidates have recently lost.

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Aug 21 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Area Events & Entertainment Community Calendar

Aug. 20 - Gazebo Nights at Normal Park - Opening act opens at 5 p.m., headliner Blindside plays at 6 p.m. Aug. 20 - Veterans Coffee & Conversation at the Eagles Club - begins at 10 a.m. Aug. 20 - …

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Aug 21 • 10:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • merrillfotonews.com
After 25 years

The kid in a sweet shop, or not being able to sleep on Christmas Eve, is genuinely how gnarly old me feels about the Sky Blues being back in the Premier League after 25 long years away! The landscape, particularly financially, has changed enormously in the intervening quarter of a century, which is why it's refreshing – and slightly surprising – to see the owner Doug King sanction spending of – by all accounts – more than £120m of their £200m-plus windfall on enhancing last season's Championship-winning squad. Frank Lampard was vibrant and positive at his pre-match media conference, while at the same time acknowledging that their front foot, attacking philosophy, which yielded 95 points and 97 goals last season, might have to be tempered, particularly at places like Arsenal.

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Aug 21 • 8:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Restaurants inside Freedom 250 race zone say they’re seeing less business

Some D.C. restaurants around the security zone for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix say closures near the race course is hurting their bottom line, while students at a nearby school were forced to learn remotely on Friday.

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Aug 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com
Decker College celebrates achievements and welcomes new faces in 2026-27

At Binghamton University’s Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, excitement is in the air faculty, students, and staff embark on the 2026-27 academic year.

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Aug 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • binghamton.edu
Brent Venables Agrees to New Contract Extension With Oklahoma

Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables has agreed to a new six year contract that will keep him in Norman through 2032, the university announced Thursday. The agreement adds two years to his previous contract and is pending approval by the Oklahoma Board of Regents. The extension comes after Venables guided Oklahoma to a 10-3…

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Aug 20 • 6:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Norman: What growing a business taught me about politics

We invited US Rep Ralph Norman and US Sen Darline Graham to explain why voters should select them in Tuesday’s GOP runoff for South Carolina’s Senate seat. Here’s Rep. Norman’s column.

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Aug 20 • 4:15 PM EDT • Politics • postandcourier.com
Norman: What growing a business taught me about politics

We invited US Rep Ralph Norman and US Sen Darline Graham to explain why voters should select them in Tuesday’s GOP runoff for South Carolina’s Senate seat. Here’s Rep. Norman’s column.

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Aug 20 • 4:15 PM EDT • Business • postandcourier.com
Michael Cohen, Trump's former fixer-turned-enemy, is hosting the president on his radio show

President Donald Trump is expected to appear on the radio show of his former fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen

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Aug 20 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Republicans notch win in Missouri congressional redistricting fight

A judge allowed Republicans to use their new congressional map this fall, but the state Supreme Court may weigh in.

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Aug 20 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Corn and rice harvest underway in Arkansas

Abnormally dry conditions throughout the Arkansas Delta during the last month have sped the rice and corn harvest, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service...

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Aug 20 • 11:24 AM EDT • Politics • talkbusiness.net
Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister

Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough

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Aug 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
5 science-backed health benefits of tea, from longevity to brain health

Drinking tea has been consistently associated with a longer lifespan.

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Aug 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
5 science-backed health benefits of tea, from longevity to brain health

Drinking tea has been consistently associated with a longer lifespan.

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Aug 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • washingtonpost.com
Pratt's Comebacks Marks Brewers Return to Normalcy

With the infield finally at full strength, the Milwaukee Brewers' rising star returns to solidify a postseason-bound lineup.

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Aug 19 • 11:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Dan Campbell Reveals What Makes Jared Goff So Special

Dan Campbell delivered enormous praise for Jared Goff, comparing the Detroit Lions quarterback's preparation and toughness to Drew Brees.

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Aug 19 • 9:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Three Binghamton University professors win prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

More than $1.8 million in grant funding will be used to pursue groundbreaking research in robotics, materials science, and urban planning.

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Aug 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • binghamton.edu
Ties to data centers could cost Ohio Sen. John Husted his seat, memo warns

A GOP memo obtained by The Post urges the tech industry to take action to improve the image of the controversial facilities.

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Aug 19 • 4:31 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
College Students Can Get a Free Year of Google AI Pro

Google today said eligible college students in the United States can get a free year of Google AI Pro. Google AI Pro is normally priced at $19.99 per month, and it includes 4x higher usage limits in Gemini, access to Gemini Spark, Gemini in Google apps like Gmail and Google Docs, and 5TB of storage space. Eligible college students outside the United States can get a free year of Google AI Plus, which includes Gemini Omni, 4x higher usage limits in Gemini, and 400GB storage.

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Aug 19 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Americans have only elected 3 Black governors. This year, 8 major party candidates are on the ballot

Florida Republicans have settled on Byron Donalds, a congressman, as their candidate for governor, and that now makes eight Black major party nominees for governors this year

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Aug 19 • 9:30 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Gabby Thomas on the rise of women's sports: "People are waking up to the fact that women's sports are an

The three-time Paris 2024 gold medallist believes the growth of women’s sport is helping to challenge deep-rooted societal norms — and wants the next generation of girls to no longer have to fight simply to be seen.

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Aug 19 • 7:48 AM EDT • Sports • olympics.com
The bond market is sounding an alarm. Here’s what it means.

Long-term Treasury yields rose to their highest point since 2007, creating another headwind for the economy and lifting borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.

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Aug 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com
‘I’m Not That Informed on National Security,’ Graham Says in South Carolina Debate

Senator Darline Graham made the remark in a debate against Representative Ralph Norman, her opponent in the runoff election to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham. Here are five takeaways from the debate.

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Aug 18 • 11:23 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Darline Graham defends her resume in South Carolina debate after saying ‘national security is not my thing’

The appointed senator and her GOP primary opponent, Rep. Ralph Norman, traded criticism a week ahead of the Aug. 25 primary runoff following Lindsey Graham’s death.

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Aug 18 • 10:00 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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This 23-foot crocodylian may have ruled South America’s food chain

Miocene South America was packed with giant prey—and the predators hunting them were just as spectacular. Fossil bite marks suggest crocodylians, especially the enormous Purussaurus neivensis, were more important predators than mammals in this ancient tropical ecosystem. At around seven meters long, Purussaurus may even have helped control populations of giant herbivores.

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Aug 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Politics drove antisemitism probes against Ivy League schools, DOJ whistleblower says

A Trump administration task force on antisemitism pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuses, a whistleblower says.

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Aug 18 • 4:27 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
What to know about Natalie Harp, the Trump aide whom Ossoff put in the spotlight

The president’s executive assistant was among a small group of people who secretly switched planes with Trump over a potential Iranian threat, as noted by Sen. Jon Ossoff.

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Aug 18 • 1:53 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Oklahoma health officials report 544 cases of cyclosporiasis statewide

KOKH Fox 25 provides, news, sports, weather and local event coverage in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas, including McLoud, Shawnee, Tecumseh, Seminole, Wewoka, Maud, Asher, Wanetted, Goldsby, Norman, Blanchard, Chickasha, Pauls Valley, Purcell, Andarko, Bridgeport, Lawton, Duncan, Okarche, Kingfisher, Guthrie Stillwater and Cushing, Oklahoma.

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Aug 18 • 11:28 AM EDT • Health • okcfox.com
A very normal day in L.A., plus the AP Top 25

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Watch your shoelaces today. Coming up: 🫠 Inside the Lakers’ drama 🙃 The Clippers, too 🏈 AP Top 25 takes In 1979, Jerry Buss bought the Lakers. For 46 years, even after Buss died in 2013, the team’s ownership remained relatively stable. To describe the last 14 months as “chaos” feels light, at this point. Let’s just do a quick timeline recap, punctuated by yesterday’s wild updates: June 2025: The Buss family...

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Aug 18 • 6:13 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Autonomy Is the Pulsing Heart of Science

Attempting to change the norms of scientific funding, organization, and incentives threatens to derail the benefits of science to society.

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Aug 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • issues.org
Hegseth Campaigns for Republican Zach Nunn in Iowa

The appearance for Representative Zach Nunn was another departure from previous norms for the defense secretary, whose predecessors kept a greater distance from politics.

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Aug 17 • 10:01 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Kratom poison center cases have surged 6,500% in the U.S.

Kratom use and serious health problems linked to it have risen dramatically across the United States over the past decade. Poison center reports jumped from just 19 cases in 2010 to more than 1,200 in 2023, while severe outcomes—including life-threatening complications, disability, and death—also climbed sharply. Researchers warn that kratom can trigger seizures, abnormal heart rhythms, liver damage, and breathing problems, with risks potentially increasing when it is combined with other drugs.

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Aug 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Kindergarten vaccine exemptions jump to another record high

Coverage among kindergarteners for the major vaccines fell in more than half the states, continuing a years-long trend, as measles cases climb.

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Aug 17 • 3:56 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support

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Aug 17 • 2:01 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
U.S. commander calls mental health a priority after he visits USS Lincoln

Days after reports emerged of burnout and poor conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Adm. Brad Cooper acknowledged that long stretches at sea can be challenging but that some of the concerns raised were 'old news."

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Aug 16 • 5:32 PM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Republicans won the redistricting competition. Don't tell that to this California congressman

The national redistricting competition between the parties means California’s conservative voters are going through the same thing as Democratic voters in Republican strongholds

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Aug 16 • 7:48 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
We study autism and vaccines. Trump’s executive order rests on flawed science.

The new childhood vaccine schedule and 6G, in readers' eyes.

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Aug 16 • 6:30 AM EDT • Science • washingtonpost.com
His family fled socialism. He’s trying to spread it.

A young Cuban American is selling democratic socialism door-to-door across Miami. But he cannot bring himself to discuss it across his family’s kitchen table.

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Aug 16 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Senate hopeful Talarico touts his faith. Texas Republicans call it blasphemy.

The Democratic nominee is seeking to win over faith-based voters in Texas, the Bible Belt’s largest state, but evangelical Republicans aren’t sold.

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Aug 16 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Democrats abandon deep-red state Senate races, boosting independents

Democratic Senate nominees in Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota dropped out, clearing the way for independents. But Alani Bankhead in Montana declined to join them.

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Aug 15 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Area Events & Entertainment Community Calendar

Aug. 13 - Gazebo Nights at Normal Park - Opening act opens at 5 p.m., headliners Road Trip plays at 6 p.m. Aug. 13 - Veterans Coffee & Conversation at the Eagles Club - begins at 10 a.m. Aug. 13 …

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Aug 14 • 3:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • merrillfotonews.com
Norma Izzo Named Among AZ Big Media’s Most Influential Women in Arizona Business for 2026

Spencer Fane is pleased to announce attorney Norma Izzo has been named one of AZ Big Media’s Most Influential Women in Arizona Business for 2026, an honor

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Aug 14 • 12:43 PM EDT • Business • spencerfane.com
Russell Fry Backs Darline Graham in South Carolina Senate Runoff Amid Trump Pressure

The president has been focused on the race since the death of Lindsey Graham in July. Ms. Graham, the late senator’s sister, is competing against Representative Ralph Norman in a runoff on Aug. 25.

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Aug 14 • 11:10 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
What ‘super movers’ can teach us about healthier brains

“Super movers” who walked faster than normal were about half as likely to develop cognitive impairment, a new study found. Here’s what it may mean for healthy aging.

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Aug 14 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • cnn.com
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The consequences of gutting American science [letter]

American science is under attack, especially the National Science Foundation, the agency responsible for funding the enormous advances that have placed our nation at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and

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Aug 14 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • lancasteronline.com
The hidden politics of time: How clocks, calendars — and now-contentious time zones

Time is a concept that varies across cultures and history

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Aug 14 • 3:27 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Jalen Carter Shares Health Update After Enormous Contract Extension

The Philadelphia Eagles took on at least some modicum of risk back in 2023 when they moved up one spot to the ninth overall pick to select Jalen Carter out of Georgia. Whilst phenomenally talented, after a car-incident that resulted in the deaths of two students and saw Carter himself serve 12 months of probation […] The post Jalen Carter Shares Health Update After Enormous Contract Extension appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 13 • 8:39 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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ORED files to stop arena, parking garage work

This post tracks developments in the case filed by Oklahomans for Responsible Economic Development against multiple authorities, including the city of Norman, in regard to the city-approved Rock Creek Entertainment

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Aug 13 • 6:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • oudaily.com
Rock Creek Entertainment District is not 'no risk'

Nearly two years ago, Norman was told the proposed University of Oklahoma entertainment district and basketball arena tax TIF represented “no new taxes,” “no risk to the public,” and “no

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Aug 13 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • normantranscript.com
White House says more than 40 nations help China dodge tariffs

A new White House report says that China sends billions of dollars worth of goods to the U.S. via third countries in order to skirt Trump's high tariffs.

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Aug 13 • 2:45 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
'Look at me!' Justice fires back at critics who dare question his Blackness

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reveals how Thomas Sowell's work freed him from isolation and gave him confidence to challenge Black political norms.

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Aug 13 • 2:34 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
AI needs science’s search history

“Actually, that’s where the gold is,” said Alasdair Russell, my graduate school friend who leads a pre-clinical genome editing group at Cambridge. He was talking about the winding road of science that is omitted from published papers. “When you’re discussing how to do the experiment, and why this way is better than another way, and what does the data really mean? I know what it shows, but what does it mean?” At RAAIS 2026, he described how his group has begun logging the twisting path of discovery as it happens, recording the verbal and written exchanges that normally disappear. Ideas become nodes in a living graph: they branch when a meeting produces two plausible experiments, merge when separate lines of evidence converge, and go dark when someone quietly stops pursuing them. In his implementation, one agent scores novelty, while another tries to learn “how scientists think and how they navigate through a complex world of data,” so that high-potential nodes can trigger deeper investigation. As frontier AI labs deploy agents toward scientific discovery, giving AI authentic scientific taste remains a trillion-dollar dilemma. The bottleneck is that the record we have kept for centuries of science might be insufficient to get us there. The experiments that never make the paper Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel laureate and “father of transplantation,” asked in 1963 whether the scientific paper was a fraud, and answered yes: the form of the paper misrepresents the thinking that produced it. Sixty years on, the diagnosis is unchanged. A paper presents a clean progression from hypothesis to result to conclusion. Lost along the way are the unconventional theories, the abandoned or unaffordable methods, and the underwhelming and inconclusive data. It reads like a browser history with every dead end deleted: the ten open tabs, the four rephrased queries, the wrong turn down a subforum. All scrubbed, leaving one clean path from question to answer as the canonical path. What has changed since then is that the discarded material is now worth something. No high-impact journal wants these artifacts, but raw trial and error is the most likely source of the training data required to develop scientific intuition, or what researchers call taste. Earlier attempts to capture the discards were motivated by scientific integrity. The Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine launched in 2002 to publish rigorous studies that disputed established models or exposed ineffective treatments. Its archive preserved negative conclusions after they had become papers, rather than the live alternatives and arguments that produced them. BioMed Central closed it in 2017, saying the mission had been served now that other journals publish null results. A less generous reading is that in fifteen years it published around 200 papers because almost nobody wants to read a negative result, let alone write one up when it will not count toward academic tenure. AI models are different. Even an uninteresting negative result can be useful, provided it is labeled. Earlier this year, Anthropic put a version of this to the test. The company pulled 129 decision points from real Claude Code sessions between January and March 2026, showed models the work up to a human detour, and asked what should happen next. Claude Mythos Preview beat the human choice 64% of the time, while Opus 4.5 managed 51%. The comparison was tilted toward the models because Anthropic deliberately chose moments where the human decision had room for improvement. On 127 further scenarios where the human action was already strong, the models improved on it only about 20% of the time. The study was possible because Anthropic’s researchers work inside a tool that logs by default. The reasoning, detours and outcome are produced in the same working environment. Biology has no equivalent. Its reasoning happens in hallways, at benches, in Slack threads and on whiteboards, while the outcome arrives weeks later somewhere else. The record has to emerge from the work itself. Ask scientists to reconstruct it afterwards and we’ll create another polished account. Subscribe A log is not a label Before any of this becomes training data, a negative result has to say what failed. The first paper published in the Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine examined 234 negative studies across five leading medical journals. Only 30% discussed statistical power, and half clearly defined a primary outcome. Tell a model an experiment failed, without telling it whether the assay was underpowered, a reagent had degraded, or the hypothesis was simply wrong, and it will learn noise with confidence. Decision histories have a second missing label too. When a lab considers five experiments and runs one, only the chosen branch returns an outcome. The other four are experimental counterfactuals. Researchers call this the selective labels problem: the data reveal results only for the actions someone chose to take. Such a record can teach a model to imitate a lab’s taste, but it cannot establish that the taste was good. It also smuggles local constraints into general lessons. A lab that never ran cryo-EM because it did not own a microscope teaches a model that cryo-EM is rarely the right call. Alasdair’s nodes preserve the candidate set, which is the necessary first step. To be useful, each decision record needs six fields: The evidence available at that moment, and nothing that arrived later. The candidates considered, including the ones dismissed in a sentence. For each candidate: the expected result, the confidence attached to it, and the cost in time and money. The route chosen, and the reason. What happened next. How the evidence changed the scientist’s view. These must be timestamped before the outcome, because hindsight turns uncertainty into inevitability. Disagreement also has to survive. Averaging three scientists into one clean rationale reproduces exactly the information loss we are trying to fix. But there is an obvious failure mode here. Once decisions are logged and scored, people log for the record post-facto. Anyone who has watched an electronic lab notebook fill up with retrospective tidying knows how quickly a research tool becomes a compliance exercise. A record that costs a scientist ten minutes of honest reflection per decision is worth far more than one that costs an hour of performance. A publication initiative called Registered Reports offers a useful starting point. Here, researchers submit their rationale, methods and analysis plan for peer review before the data exist, and the journal commits in principle to publish if they follow the approved plan. Nature has now expanded the format across every field it covers. This approach to paper writing timestamps intent before the outcome, but it freezes one plan. A useful search history must also preserve how the plan changed, which alternatives were rejected, when, and on what evidence. Subscribe Run the runner-up Autonomous labs show what happens when decisions and outcomes are connected in a loop. Liverpool’s mobile robotic chemist ran 688 experiments over eight days in a ten-variable formulation space. A batched Bayesian search used each result to choose the next experiments and found photocatalyst mixtures six times more active than the starting formulations. Every completed experiment changed what the system did next. The robot optimized within a goal and search space that humans had already chosen. It did not decide which scientific question mattered. So what this work demonstrates is narrower, but still useful: a search history pays off when the options return standardized outcomes quickly. Open-ended biology is harder because branches can take weeks and the discarded alternatives may never be run. Some exploration therefore has to be bought. Where two branches are plausible and the stakes justify the cost, a lab should sometimes run the runner-up. Otherwise the record captures what today’s scientists usually chose and stays silent on what they systematically overlooked. A funder could ring-fence a small fraction of a grant for the branch not taken, provided that the decision record and the outcome are both deposited. That costs money, but so does having every lab rediscover the same abandoned path. Test whether taste transfers When it comes time to evaluate if our new AI system exhibits taste, the comparison should run across laboratories and fields. At selected decision points in a live research campaign, we should freeze the six fields: the evidence, the candidates, expected results, confidence, costs and the choice made. Experts then rank the options before the outcomes are known, and those outcomes are checked independently later. We could give models one of two diets - papers alone, or papers plus decision histories - and ask them to rank the next experiment on unfamiliar projects. Then, we score information gained per dollar and week, calibration, and how quickly weak branches are abandoned. If histories improve choices only inside the lab that produced them, they amount to useful organizational memory. If they improve choices on unfamiliar problems elsewhere, Alasdair’s group will have captured something science has never managed to write down: a transferable record of taste. Until that happens, a scientific search history is a promising record, not yet a training set.

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Aug 13 • 11:16 AM EDT • Science • press.airstreet.com
As Abdul El-Sayed breaks a barrier, anti-Muslim vitriol surges on multiple fronts

Abdul El-Sayed made history this month in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate

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Aug 13 • 7:09 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Mission Improbable: A onetime Republican is trying to prove Democrats can win in Florida

David Jolly, a former Republican now running for Florida governor as a Democrat, is trying to revive the state’s political battleground status

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Aug 13 • 5:09 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Car crashes into Trap House Chicken on Normandy Blvd.; owner says business will stay open

A car crashed into Trap House Chicken on Normandy Blvd. Wednesday afternoon, sending the popular restaurant into cleanup and recovery mode — but its owner says the doors will stay open.

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Aug 12 • 6:16 PM EDT • Business • news4jax.com
South Carolina Senate Runoff Kicks Off With Chick-fil-A and Trump Calls

Darline Graham and Ralph Norman emerged from a special election sprint on Tuesday to succeed Lindsey Graham. She will sell her closeness to President Trump. He will tout his conservatism.

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Aug 12 • 5:20 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Forget left vs. center. Democratic voters are making clear they just want change

Results in Democratic primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut have reiterated that Democratic voters are hungry for change, even as they remain divided over the party’s ideological future

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Aug 12 • 11:39 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Analysis | With Crowley atop their ticket, Wisconsin Democrats hope for a 2026 sweep

The party establishment is breathing a sign of relief that democratic socialist Francesca Hong, who led the pre-election polls by double-digits, will not be topping their ticket.

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Aug 12 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Sen. Darline Graham, Rep. Ralph Norman advance to GOP runoff in South Carolina

A first-time candidate who was always close to her brother's political orbit, Darline Graham overcame skepticism about her lack of experience in her campaign to replace him, as she moved forward Tuesday as the top vote-getter to runner-up Norman.

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Aug 12 • 11:12 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Notre Dame offensive line takes an injury hit

Injuries are just a normal part of fall camp, and Notre Dame Football is no exception.

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Aug 12 • 10:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump’s vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

President Donald Trump’s executive order to change the childhood vaccine schedule could endear him to some “Make America Healthy Again” voters who want more flexibility on immunization

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Aug 12 • 6:45 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Graham, Norman advance to special primary runoff, political analyst breaks down results

News 4's political analyst Gibbs Knotts joined Good Morning Charleston Wednesday to break down the resulst and

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Aug 12 • 6:33 AM EDT • Politics • abcnews4.com
Galaxy Entertainment Group Q2 & Interim Results 2026

Leading Macau’s Non-Gaming Diversification Through MICE, Entertainment and Sporting Events Gaming and Entertainment Division on a Normalized Basis,Q2 2026 Net Revenue Grew 6%, Adjusted Property EBITDA Grew 9% and Adjusted Property EBITDA Margin Expanded From 30.5% to 31.4% YoY Announced Interim Dividend of $0.90 per Share Continued to Ramp up Capella at Galaxy Macau HONG KONG, Aug. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Galaxy Entertainment Group (“GEG”, “Company” or the “Group”) (HKEx stock code: 27) tod

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Aug 12 • 4:23 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Trump-endorsed Sen. Darline Graham will face Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina GOP Senate runoff

John King breaks down key primary results from Wisconsin and South Carolina at CNN’s Magic Wall

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Aug 11 • 9:44 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump officials tout Medicaid financing changes ahead of midterms

Republican-sponsored changes in Medicaid will lower hospital prices and Americans’ health insurance premiums, the White House contends in a new report.

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Aug 11 • 6:53 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Judge again bars Trump administration from implementing order that sought to limit mail voting

A federal judge has agreed to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who can receive a mail ballot

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Aug 11 • 5:57 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one

Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm

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Aug 11 • 5:31 PM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
Human rights groups sue Trump administration over International Criminal Court sanctions

The president signed an executive order in 2025 placing sanctions on the ICC, whose jurisdiction the U.S. does not recognize.

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Aug 11 • 1:31 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
How smoke in the atmosphere impacts your health

Smoke from massive wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest has reached central Nebraska, pushing air quality index readings higher than normal and prompting health warnings for at-risk residents.

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Aug 11 • 12:54 PM EDT • Health • 1011now.com
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Trump-Netanyahu rift widens as election pressures pull them in opposite directions

While the Israeli leader touts a willingness to defy the U.S. on Gaza, the president needs to show progress in the foreign entanglements weighing on his approval rating.

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Aug 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
When a physician’s ‘noble’ reassurance leads to a patient’s unsought treatment

When a doctor tells a patient that his or her symptoms are normal within some given context, the patient may ignore the contextualization and only hear “You’re normal.” As shown in a new study, the partially received message can be a problem.

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Aug 11 • 12:19 AM EDT • Health • healthexec.com
Connecticut Democrats weigh generational change as US. Rep. John Larson, 78, faces primary fight

Connecticut Democrats face a choice between U.S. Rep. John Larson and younger challengers for the 1st Congressional District

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Aug 11 • 12:15 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
As profanity from politicans becomes normalized, what's allowed in political ads?
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Aug 10 • 11:57 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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HeyDay Entertainment to close after nearly 20 years amid planned Norman turnpike route
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Aug 10 • 11:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • okcfox.com
Deadline passes for Rep. Max Miller to be replaced on Ohio ballot as he faces domestic abuse claims

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district

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Aug 10 • 7:36 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
HeyDay Entertainment to close Norman location after selling to Oklahoma Turnpike Authority

HeyDay Entertainment announced on Monday that it will be closing its Norman location on August 28 after reaching an agreement to sell its property to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority for planned hig…

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Aug 10 • 4:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • kfor.com
HeyDay Entertainment’s Norman location to shut down Aug. 28, 2026

HeyDay Entertainment has announced that its Norman location will close on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, due to the planned highway construction by the Oklahoma Turnpik

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Aug 10 • 1:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • okcfox.com
HeyDay Entertainment to sell to Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, close later this month

HeyDay Entertainment announced in a press release Monday it will close its Norman location following an agreement to sell the property to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.

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Aug 10 • 1:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • oudaily.com
HeyDay Entertainment to close Norman location after sale to OTA

HeyDay Entertainment announced Monday that it will close its Norman location to the public Aug. 28 after reaching an agreement to sell the property to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority for

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Aug 10 • 12:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • normantranscript.com
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Singer Samantha Mumba Thought She’d Never Have a Normal Job After Finding Fame at 15. Now She’s Embracing a Surprising Line of Work (Exclusive)

After finding the spotlight as a teen, Mumba knew she wanted to explore her talents outside of entertainment

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Aug 10 • 11:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
The sun will vanish over Europe in a rare total solar eclipse: Watch live

A total solar eclipse will plunge parts of Europe into darkness on August 12, 2026, with Spain offering some of the best views. ESA will livestream the spectacle from the Javalambre Observatory, combining telescope feeds, drone footage, and expert commentary. At 20:31 CEST, the observatory will experience 1 minute and 21 seconds of totality, revealing the Sun’s normally hidden outer atmosphere.

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Aug 10 • 6:59 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Patriot Games open with dodgeball, lots of MAGA caps and even more questions

The youth contest for $250,000 — part of the White House's Freedom 250 festivities — featured over 120 competitors drawn from a murky selection process.

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Aug 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • washingtonpost.com
Surprise nominees, candidate scandals scramble the battle for Congress

Unexpected primary results have complicated both parties’ paths to control of the House and Senate.

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Aug 10 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal

He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2

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Aug 10 • 1:56 AM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
Trump announces staff secretary Will Scharf will be his new White House counsel

President Donald Trump says Will Scharf will be the new White House counsel, replacing David Warrington

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Aug 9 • 6:18 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
How hospital monopolies are driving up the cost of your health care

A federal disclosure rule is offering new insight on the effect of health care monopolies on pricing, following a wave of U.S. mergers.

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Aug 9 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
Darline Graham has Donald Trump in her corner. Will it be enough to win her brother’s Senate seat?

Tuesday’s special GOP primary to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on the November ballot is likely heading to a runoff, despite Trump’s endorsement and his popularity with the base.

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Aug 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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How Texas is courting Wall Street with ‘Y’all Street’

Texas has spent a decade luring the finance industry to Dallas with tax incentives, new laws and a stock exchange of its own. Inside the rise of “Y’all Street.”

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Aug 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com
Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?

Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been partly responsible. While dinosaurs kept mammals from becoming large, small mammals may have returned the favor by occupying ecological niches that could otherwise have supported mouse-sized dinosaurs.

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Aug 8 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Darline Graham tests value of a famous name vs. lack of experience in South Carolina primary

Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday

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Aug 8 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Democratic voters who used to back Susan Collins aren’t so sure anymore

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has counted on split-ticket voters to help her win office in a blue state. Some of those supporters are more reluctant to vote for her again.

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Aug 8 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
California may fine content creators who don't disclose they were paid to post about politics

States are debating whether to crack down on social media influencers making political advertisements without disclosing that they were paid

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Aug 8 • 12:09 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
iPhone 18 Pro rumor roundup: 2nm A20 chip, C2 modem, under-display Face ID

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro is right around the corner, and the rumor mill started earlier than normal. Here's what you need to know.

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Aug 7 • 1:16 PM EDT • Technology • appleinsider.com
‘Destiny 2’ Players Are Miraculously Unvaulting Cut Content From The Game

It is one of the most infamous moments in Destiny history, when Bungie announced that it could no longer support the enormous mountain of content the game was amassing.

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Aug 7 • 9:59 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Outside eagle spotted on Jackie and Shadow's nest

Don’t panic, it’s normal

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Aug 7 • 9:18 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com