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Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
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Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming

From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground on which this town was built contains large bodies of ice. Along the eroding coastal bluffs, that hidden ice is becoming exposed and melting away.

📅 2026-09-29 19:20:10    •    Phys.org
Strange things happen in four dimensions
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Strange things happen in four dimensions

Disorder, exotic shapes and great uncertainty: while mathematicians understand phenomena in low and high dimensions very well, the 4D world raises many questions

📅 2026-09-29 18:00:00    •    Scientific American
'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns

Earth's life-support systems are in peril — and they're getting worse — but although the window for action is closing, we still have a chance to give our planet a sustainable future, a new report finds. The report, called "Planetary Health Check 2026," was written by more than 60 scientists and assessed the state of interconnected natural systems, or planetary boundaries, upon which Earth's stability and resilience depend. When these boundaries are crossed, researchers say there's an increasing risk of serious and irreversible harm.According to the report, seven of the nine identified planetary boundaries have already been breached, including climate change, ocean acidification and biosphere...

📅 2026-09-29 17:11:35    •    Live Science
Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying-predator evolution
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Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying-predator evolution

An artist's reconstruction of what the newly described bird-like dinosaur (Norellraptor barsboldi) would have looked like. (Image credit: Mr. Zhao Chuang)A predatory bird-like dinosaur with four wings discovered in China adds evidence to the idea that flight evolved several times in different dinosaur groups.The exceptionally well-preserved feathered dinosaur, which has been named Norellraptor barsboldi, was 3 years old when it died and measured just 21 inches (57 centimeters) long. It was found in the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in northeastern China, which dates to between 145 million and 100 million years ago.N. barsboldi had the sharply curved predatory teeth and claws you'd exp...

📅 2026-09-29 16:47:59    •    Live Science
Africa's oldest known defensive wall outside Egypt discovered, and it's 4,000 years old
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Africa's oldest known defensive wall outside Egypt discovered, and it's 4,000 years old

The largest defensive wall at Oued Beht. Archaeologists think its base was constructed about 4,000 years ago. (Image credit: G. Lucarini, Oued Beht Archaeological Project)Archaeologists have unearthed 4,000-year-old defensive walls in Morocco that are the oldest structures of their kind in North Africa outside the Nile Valley.The discovery expands what's known about the human development of this region of northwestern Mediterranean Africa, known as the Maghreb, particularly about the adoption of agriculture."For more than a century, the Maghreb was treated as a blank space in the story of Mediterranean later prehistory," Giulio Lucarini, an archaeologist at Italy's National Research Council,...

📅 2026-09-29 15:05:35    •    Live Science
Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or incisions
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Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or incisions

Scientists are developing a possible alternative to LASIK that reshapes the cornea without cutting it or using a laser. The technique uses a small electric potential and a specially shaped platinum lens to temporarily soften the cornea, allowing it to be molded in about a minute.

📅 2026-09-29 12:53:00    •    ScienceDaily
Children at risk for depression get “stuck” on sad faces
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Children at risk for depression get “stuck” on sad faces

Depression may change which emotional faces children notice most, but the pattern appears to depend on family history. Children at higher familial risk became increasingly focused on sad faces, while lower-risk children with rising symptoms paid less attention to happy ones.

📅 2026-09-29 12:36:52    •    ScienceDaily
Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge
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Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge

Scientists have developed and experimentally demonstrated a long-sought method for identifying W states, an important form of multi-photon quantum entanglement. The technique could make complex entangled systems much easier to measure, opening new possibilities for quantum teleportation, communication, and computing.

📅 2026-09-29 12:02:30    •    ScienceDaily