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Astronomers link mysterious cosmic flashes to collisions of dead stars
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Astronomers link mysterious cosmic flashes to collisions of dead stars

For decades, astronomers have identified collisions between two neutron stars through bursts of gamma rays that can disappear in less than two seconds. But some of these violent encounters may also reveal themselves through X-ray flashes lasting several minutes. A new study published in Science Bulletin provides evidence for this connection, suggesting that merging neutron stars could be hiding among cosmic flashes whose origins have remained uncertain.

📅 2026-09-30 19:40:15    •    Phys.org
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How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas
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How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas

Where did the roughly 100 species of New World blackbirds alive today originate, and how did they spread across the Americas? Dr. Axel Arango Garcia and professor Chaitanya S. Gokhale from the Chair for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) have reconstructed the evolutionary history of this family of birds.

📅 2026-09-30 19:40:06    •    Phys.org
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Is cursive worth learning?
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Is cursive worth learning?

Illustration by Roy Scott/Ikon Images Nation & World Is cursive worth learning? Pencil-and-paper asks more of a student than a keyboard. Maybe that’s the point. September 30, 2026 4 min read Part of the Wondering series A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. Catherine Snow is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Perhaps cursive went out of style because there was a sense that it was just a technical skill, and one that was becoming less and less necessary with the universal availability of keyboards. There’s this sense that there’s a “problem” of putting stuff on paper, and the technic...

📅 2026-09-30 19:35:18    •    Harvard Gazette
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What do you know about the Nobels?
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What do you know about the Nobels?

Science & Tech What do you know about the Nobels? Illustrations by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer September 30, 2026 1 min read Harvard’s history with the prestigious prize may surprise you Since 1901, committees in Sweden and Norway have awarded Nobel Prizes annually to recognize achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and (from 1969) economics. Through the years, dozens of Harvard scholars and researchers have earned the title of Nobel laureate across all categories. Test your knowledge of Harvard’s connections with the prestigious prize in the following quiz. var gform;gform||(document.addEventListener("gform_main_scripts_lo...

📅 2026-09-30 19:22:11    •    Harvard Gazette
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Taking vital training home
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Taking vital training home

Maralmaa Chinzorig (top left) talking with a healthcare worker. Assina Kahamba (bottom left) with a group principals. Photos courtesy of Maralmaa Chinzorig and Assina Kahamba Nation & World Taking vital training home With help from the i-Lab, two students tackle improving education in the DRC, healthcare in rural Mongolia Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer September 30, 2026 6 min read Assina Kahamba and Maralmaa Chinzorig both arrived at Harvard for graduate school with the goal of getting the necessary training to help their communities with big problems. For Kahamba, it was strengthening teacher education in Democratic Republic of the Congo. For Chinzorig, it was improving medical care in r...

📅 2026-09-30 17:04:56    •    Harvard Gazette
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Powerful 'Kelvin wave' triggered by super El Niño threatens to raise sea levels off the California coast for months
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Powerful 'Kelvin wave' triggered by super El Niño threatens to raise sea levels off the California coast for months

A powerful "Kelvin wave," triggered by this year's super El Niño, is creeping up the Pacific coast of Central and North America and will soon reach California's shores, where it could raise sea levels by up to 1 foot (30 centimeters) for months, researchers warn.Kelvin waves are a well-known, planetary-scale ocean phenomenon, but this particular forecast has experts worried because it will likely amplify the damage from severe storms, storm surges, flooding and coastal erosion that the record-shattering El Niño is expected to bring this winter.In general, a Kelvin wave is a swell wave that spans thousands of miles and balances Earth's rotation, David Webb, a physical oceanographer at the Nat...

📅 2026-09-30 16:10:59    •    Live Science
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Astronomers discover 'backward' planet orbiting its star in the wrong direction
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Astronomers discover 'backward' planet orbiting its star in the wrong direction

Researchers have discovered an exoplanet that travels around its small, red star backward, much like a rubber duck spinning against the current in a whirlpool. The discovery could give insight about how exoplanets form around the most common types of stars in our galaxy.It's a mystery why the alien world, called GJ 3090 b, orbits its star backward (also called a retrograde orbit). Stars and planets usually form from the same rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk. Newly formed celestial objects normally rotate in the same direction as the protoplanetary disk, because changing the rotational direction requires a lot of energy applied in the right way.Astronomers have disc...

📅 2026-09-30 16:07:27    •    Live Science
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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy.The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single centralized AI-orchestrated platform that will allow...

📅 2026-09-30 15:15:00    •    MIT News
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Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn
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Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn

TOPIC:Knowledge sharing Young scientists win their way to CERN, DESY and the University of Bonn The three laboratories welcomed the high-school students who won this year’s edition of Beamline for Schools Written by: Nicoletta Barzaghini — 30 September, 2026 From 11 to 25 August, a bit earlier as usual due to Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), CERN, DESY (the German electron synchrotron facility in Hamburg) and ELSA (the electron accelerator at the University of Bonn) welcomed the winners of the 2026 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition. Member of the Turkish team “PionIST 3”, Ceren Akgün, explaining the experiment at CERN during the VIP Sponsor’s Day 2026. (Image: CERN) Launched in 2014 to mark CERN...

📅 2026-09-30 15:05:23    •    CERN
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“La nuit est belle!” 2026
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“La nuit est belle!” 2026

TOPIC:At CERN “La nuit est belle !” 2026 From 9 to 11 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !” by switching off lights across its sites — 30 September, 2026 Starting on the evening of Friday, 9 October, CERN will participate in the sixth edition of “La nuit est belle !”. Thanks to this initiative, turning off or dimming street lighting in the middle of the night has become common practice across the Geneva canton. For this edition, “La nuit est belle !” invites the public to explore the night through the theme of water. Rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands and landscapes shaped by water all serve as starting points for discovering the natural, cultural and sen...

📅 2026-09-30 15:03:08    •    CERN
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This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
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This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select ideal strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers.Using advances in machine-learning, researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University developed an AI that defeated top-ranked human players of the board wargame Stratego by a large margin — something no AI system had been able to achieve. Stratego, a two-player game of imperfect information, in which the opponent’s piece identities remain hidden, is often used as a benchmark to test the strategic thinking abilities of powerful AI models.To bu...

📅 2026-09-30 15:00:00    •    MIT News
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Regular exercise reshapes the immune system at a cellular level, study suggests
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Regular exercise reshapes the immune system at a cellular level, study suggests

It's well-known that regular exercise comes with health benefits, but exactly how those benefits manifest at the cellular level isn't clear. Now, researchers have identified a series of changes in metabolism and the immune system that differentiate regular exercisers from people with sedentary lifestyles. The findings, published Sept. 18 in the journal Science Advances, point to potential pathways for managing chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, the scientists say.The team of researchers analyzed data from the Chinese Immune Multi-omics Atlas (CIMA), which includes data from 400 adults who gave blood samples and answered an in-depth questionnaire about their lifesty...

📅 2026-09-30 14:10:00    •    Live Science
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