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Rising temperatures are accelerating glacier and permafrost melt in the Himalayas, increasing the risk of floods, landslides, and related disasters, although scientists have not yet determined how much climate change contributed to this week's landslide.
11:22 PMThe New York Times
A mountain collapse in Nepal generated a flash flood so sudden and powerful that survivors had little time to respond. At least hundreds of people died, while many others remained missing.
6:45 PMThe New York Times
Scientists believe a collapse involving a glacier and surrounding rock near the Nepal-China border triggered a massive flood. The event sent water rapidly downstream and caused catastrophic damage in Nepal.
3:43 PMAl Jazeera
Researchers used AI to search more than 100 million 3D-printing configurations for the NASA alloy GRCop-42. After 40 experiments, it identified six workable settings, including one that printed the alloy at a record-low 500 watts.
9:08 AMScienceDaily
Astronomers have obtained the clearest image yet of a long-suspected companion star orbiting Betelgeuse. The companion appears unexpectedly massive and could help explain Betelgeuse’s changing brightness and influence its eventual supernova.
8:43 AMScienceDaily
Researchers induced electronic patterns consistent with altermagnetism in ultrathin ruthenium dioxide by applying strain to films only a few atomic layers thick. The material normally appears nonmagnetic, but its altered state could have applications in advanced electronics.
5:23 AMScienceDailySummary
Rising temperatures are accelerating glacier and permafrost melt in the Himalayas, increasing the risk of floods, landslides, and related disasters, although scientists have not yet determined how much climate change contributed to this week's landslide.
The established shift is a more hazardous Himalayan environment as warming weakens ice, frozen ground,
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Uncertain attribution for one disaster does not diminish the clear increase in long-term regional hazard.
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A mountain collapse in Nepal generated a flash flood so sudden and powerful that survivors had little time to respond. At least hundreds of people died, while many others remained missing.
The defining fact is the gap between the collapse and the flood’s arrival: communities had
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Disaster plans built around gradual flooding may fail when mountain collapses produce near-instant inundation.
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Scientists believe a collapse involving a glacier and surrounding rock near the Nepal-China border triggered a massive flood. The event sent water rapidly downstream and caused catastrophic damage in Nepal.
The likely trigger was a compound mountain hazard, with ice and rock failure displacing water
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Rapid glacier-related collapses create a growing disaster risk in high-mountain regions with limited warning systems.
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Researchers used AI to search more than 100 million 3D-printing configurations for the NASA alloy GRCop-42. After 40 experiments, it identified six workable settings, including one that printed the alloy at a record-low 500 watts.
The key shift is from testing printing parameters one by one to using AI to
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Cheaper, more accessible printing could expand production of rocket components and shorten materials-development cycles.
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Astronomers have obtained the clearest image yet of a long-suspected companion star orbiting Betelgeuse. The companion appears unexpectedly massive and could help explain Betelgeuse’s changing brightness and influence its eventual supernova.
The companion gives astronomers a new variable for interpreting Betelgeuse’s behavior, which had largely been
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A second star may reshape the leading explanations for Betelgeuse’s variability and future evolution.
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Researchers induced electronic patterns consistent with altermagnetism in ultrathin ruthenium dioxide by applying strain to films only a few atomic layers thick. The material normally appears nonmagnetic, but its altered state could have applications in advanced electronics.
The result shows that reducing a material to atomic-scale thickness and mechanically straining it can
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Controllable altermagnetism could expand the materials available for faster and more energy-efficient spin-based electronics.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne has released emails and other details about his research and travel to challenge allegations that he published fraudulent results and helped conceal misconduct.
1:27 PMStat News
Evidence from ancient teeth and human DNA suggests insect eating varied sharply across human populations and may have declined early in northern Eurasia. Neanderthals appear to have eaten insects more regularly, while some tropical populations retained genetic adaptations for digesting insect exoskeletons.
8:18 AMScienceDaily
A proposed population of ancient Dark Stars could account for part of the gravitational-wave background detected across the Universe. If the idea holds, the signal would preserve information about how the first supermassive black holes formed and how dark matter behaved during cosmic dawn.
6:26 AMScienceDaily
A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck may owe part of its promise to an algorithm that selects the tumor mutations most likely to trigger an immune response. The technology combines computational prediction with immunology and cancer biology.
4:30 AMStat News
A 324-million-year-old fossil shows an early insect relative with paddle-like abdominal limbs suited to aquatic movement. It supports the idea that insects transitioned gradually through an amphibious phase rather than moving abruptly from water to land.
3:22 AMScienceDailySummary
Marc Tessier-Lavigne has released emails and other details about his research and travel to challenge allegations that he published fraudulent results and helped conceal misconduct.
The dispute has moved from the findings of prior investigations to a public contest over
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The case tests whether transparency after a scientific leadership scandal can restore trust or merely deepen the evidentiary dispute.
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Evidence from ancient teeth and human DNA suggests insect eating varied sharply across human populations and may have declined early in northern Eurasia. Neanderthals appear to have eaten insects more regularly, while some tropical populations retained genetic adaptations for digesting insect exoskeletons.
Modern insect aversion may reflect deep regional dietary history rather than a universal human preference.
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The findings show that expanding insect-based diets will require more than making the food available.
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A proposed population of ancient Dark Stars could account for part of the gravitational-wave background detected across the Universe. If the idea holds, the signal would preserve information about how the first supermassive black holes formed and how dark matter behaved during cosmic dawn.
The hypothesis connects an unresolved gravitational-wave signal to a speculative class of stars powered partly
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A cosmic background signal could become a probe of both dark matter and the Universe’s first black-hole seeds.
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A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck may owe part of its promise to an algorithm that selects the tumor mutations most likely to trigger an immune response. The technology combines computational prediction with immunology and cancer biology.
The decisive shift is toward algorithms as a central part of cancer vaccine design, rather
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The algorithm may determine whether personalized cancer vaccines remain a niche treatment or become a broader platform.
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A 324-million-year-old fossil shows an early insect relative with paddle-like abdominal limbs suited to aquatic movement. It supports the idea that insects transitioned gradually through an amphibious phase rather than moving abruptly from water to land.
The fossil fills a critical gap between aquatic arthropod ancestors and fully terrestrial insects. It
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The discovery identifies a plausible intermediate stage in one of the most consequential transitions in animal evolution.
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