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Astronomy

10 comets the cameras caught, including one that stayed visible to the naked eye for 18 months

Comets rank among the most photographed objects in the night sky, and a few have drawn spacecraft, telescopes and crowds of amateur imagers. Some stayed bright for months, some collided with planets, and one was reached by a lander. Here are ten comets the cameras caught, in rough order of when they appeared. 1. Halley’s […]

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

NASA will update its plan to land astronauts on the Moon by 2028 on Oct. 23

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

11 animals ranked by sleep, from a 19.9-hour bat to a 3-hour horse

By BeckhamLangford

In adults over 70, more cellular recycling was tied to weaker grip and lower fitness

By BeckhamLangford

Polestar is offering up to $25,000 off the Polestar 4 through Nov. 2

By Kade Winslow

The U.S. passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports, and Tesla added the most in the third quarter

By Kade Winslow

Farmers in Belize were almost certainly growing maize 6,000 years ago, millennia before Maya villages

By BeckhamLangford

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Science

A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals the wetland where early humans lived in Israel

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Aspen trees remember drought for years, and it changes how much of them gets eaten

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Reefs grow up to 2.5 times faster beside islands cleared of rats

By BeckhamLangford

Science

An MIT-led method doubled the accuracy of weather forecasts two to six weeks out

By BeckhamLangford

Technology

Roman harbor concrete healed itself and has lasted 2,000 years in seawater

By Cassian Holt

Technology

A recall pulls 31,000 fire-spray cans that can burst apart in the middle of a fire

By Cassian Holt

Technology

Microsoft admits its September Windows 11 update is breaking backups and blocking some PCs from booting

By Cassian Holt

Military

Declassified video shows the 50-hour hunt for two airmen down in Iran

By Rowan Calder

Military

Two former airmen drew 111 and 78 months for diverting a $1.68 million wire

By Kade Winslow

Military

A postcard offering extra veterans benefits through a ‘Veterans Savings Program’ is a scam, the FTC warns

By Rowan Calder

AI

ChatGPT can now scan paper pages into a single PDF with an iPhone camera

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon reaches paid users as its API price doubles after Nov. 30

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Google put AI chips in orbit to see whether a data center can survive up there

By Dorian Maddox

AI

A light-based test spotted AI-made videos 97.79% of the time on Celeb-DF face swaps, and Veo-3 fakes 94.8% of the time

By Dorian Maddox

Transportation

A software error can dim the low beams on 30 Thomas Built school buses

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A solar controller can push 24 volts into 16,128 Grand Design Reflection trailers wired for 12

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

4,206 Honda VT1300CX and VT750 motorcycles can stall from a defective fuel pump

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A loosening roll pin can let 24,656 Roadmaster tow bars separate from the hitch

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A seat-post bolt can break on $9,000 Urban Arrow cargo bikes

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Chicago is putting a battery train on a commuter line that runs 45 to 65 miles between charges

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A seizing rocker arm broke a rider’s bone, and Triumph recalled 1,560 race bikes

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

11 rapid-transit systems split America’s subway ridership, and New York alone takes 1.2 billion of the annual trips

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

11 legendary long-distance trains you can still ride, including a four-night, 2,775-mile crossing of Canada

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Riding a rail car to check the tracks has killed 14 workers since 2020

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

A pedestrian’s death on the tracks in Sharon adds to 1,317 rail trespassing cases last year

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Can-Am recalls 14,014 three-wheelers and motorcycles after their instrument screens go blank

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Ford recall covers more than 226,000 vehicles; what owners should verify next

By Cassian Holt

Transportation

10 motorcycles insurance data marks as the costliest to crash and the deadliest to ride

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

9 of the tallest mountains in North America

By Kade Winslow

Transportation

Zoox recalled robotaxi software after one vehicle became confused by heavy smoke

By Rowan Calder

Energy & Climate

Antarctic sea ice peaked on Sept. 14 at its third-lowest maximum on record

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

U.S. oil and gas methane held at 9.3 to 10.4 teragrams a year as production rose

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The Energy Department is sending $96 million to 67 early-career scientists in 26 states

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

The Pacific patch that drives El Nino hit 29.70C, hotter than in 1982, 1997 or 2015

By Everett Sloane

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