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ScienceA Tiny Mistake Nearly Doomed Hubble. Then NASA Pulled Off a Miracle.
A dramatic near-failure turned into one of science’s greatest success stories.
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Popular Mechanics
BusinessWill YouTube TV remove Fox channels? FCC chair chimes in as deadline looms
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said Aug. 26 that Fox's removal from YouTube TV would be "terrible." A YouTube account fired back.
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USA TODAY
Entertainment40th Year Anniversary: Full list of ASU’s Fall Planetarium shows
Angelo State University has announced its full schedule of Planetarium shows, which will run from Sept. 3 to Dec. 4 and include the 40th Anniversary Celebration in November, with ticket prices at $3 for adults and $2 for children, active military and senior citizens, and free for ASU students, faculty and staff.
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ScienceAustin lakes are full of microplastics and the problem is getting worse
Microplastics are polluting Lady Bird Lake and Lake Austin, with new research from the University of Texas showing the amount of microplastics in the bottom of the lakes is growing over time, consisting mainly of asphalt bindings and synthetic materials from tires.
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Science'Jaw-droppingly weird' dinosaur from Morocco was studded with spikes
(Reuters) -Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the most extreme dinosaurs on record, lavishly adorned with armor and spikes - some about three feet (one meter) long - unlike that of any other known creature. Researchers on Wednesday described extensive fossilized remains discovered in the Atlas Mountains near the Moroccan town of Boulemane of a Jurassic Period dinosaur named Spicomellus. Roughly 13 feet (four meters) long and weighing perhaps one to two tons, Spicomellus is the oldest-known member of a group of tank-like armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs, squat and slow-moving plant-eaters that walked on four legs.
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Reuters
ScienceTwo evolutionary changes underpinning human bipedalism are discovered
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind's success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the human evolutionary lineage that reshaped the pelvis and helped facilitate this defining characteristic. The researchers examined the genetic basis for bipedalism, an ability that distinguishes humans from other primates, by studying stored samples of embryonic tissues from people and various other primate species, discerning a pair of genetic shifts that took place in our ancestors.
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ScienceThis Incredible Dinosaur Sported The Spikiest Armor The World Has Ever Seen
"Unlike anything anyone had ever found."
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ScienceAlert
ScienceGlow-in-the-dark succulents are here
‘Imagine glowing trees replacing streetlights.’
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Popular Science
BusinessManufacturers unveil first-of-its-kind cargo ship that could revolutionize shipping industry: 'Powerful symbol'
"We are putting innovative ideas into practice."
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WorldRumors spread like viruses. The French Revolution proved it.
Historians and epidemiologists join forces to uncover some scary and relevant lessons.
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ScienceA Scientist Says Humans Could Live for a Staggering 20,000 Years
An aging expert thinks humans can live for 20,000 years—and he might not be crazy. There's one major key to unlocking extreme longevity.
3 min readPopular Mechanics
BusinessWhat happened with the Starship launch? SpaceX completes successful Texas test flight
SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, conducted the most successful Starship test of 2025 from the company's Starbase complex in South Texas.
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ScienceEarth Pulsates Every 26 Seconds. No One Knows Why.
Earth keeps pulsating every 26 seconds, and no one can figure out why. Maybe you can solve this strange seismic mystery.
2 min readPopular Mechanics
ScienceScientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind
It's a technology that doesn't even exist yet, but its effects could be so drastically destructive that scientists in the field are calling for it to be banned now, before it's too late. We're talking, of course, about "mirror life" — synthetic organisms that quite literally turn natural biology on its head. "We should choose not […]
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Futurism
BusinessSpaceX launches Starship on most successful test mission of 2025. When is flight 11?
SpaceX's Starship soared to new heights for 2025 in its latest flight test from Starbase, Texas. When will the world’s largest rocket launch again?
7 min readUSA TODAY
ScienceNASA James Webb Space Telescope observes interstellar comet 3i/ATLAS
NASA observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope for the first time.
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United Press International
ScienceScientists Discovered a Powerful Crystal That Breathes Oxygen Like a Living Thing
With the ability to release and absorb oxygen at low temperatures, this metal oxide could improve everything from fuel cell technology to smart windows.
3 min readPopular Mechanics
USPrincipal of the school promoted by Bill Ackman says teacher pay starts at $100K and kids can earn money to fund projects
The principal of Alpha School, which has been promoted by Bill Ackman, said its approach to academics includes personalized AI lesson plans.
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Business Insider
TechnologyNew Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering
For years, the concept of AI consciousness has remained on the fringes, with all but the most powerful proponents of the theory being laughed out of public life. In reality, opponents point out, the current generation of AI is nothing more than extremely complex statistics — detecting patterns in training data like written materials or imagery so subtle that it can reproduce similar patterns going forward. That can produce a compelling imitation of consciousness, but there's no reason to believe
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ScienceThis Skull Is The Oldest Physical Proof of Neanderthals in Your Bloodline
A love story from 140,000 years ago.
3 min readScienceAlert
WorldArchaeologists Pulled a 2,000-Year-Old Headless Statue From a Possible Lost City
Relics that could be from the city of Canopus have been sitting at the bottom of a Mediterranean bay for almost two millennium.
3 min readPopular Mechanics
ScienceSpace Coast launch schedule
The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch Alliance and the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, the Space Force has said it could support as many as 156 launches in 2025. Check back for the latest information on upcoming launches. By The Numbers: ...
Orlando Sentinel
ScienceNASA's James Webb Space Telescope is latest to get a look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's attention in July 2025.
4 min readUSA TODAY
BusinessSpaceX launches another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit Wednesday morning.
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WFTV
ScienceSpaceX launch photos: See sunrise Starlink liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
SpaceX's Starlink 10-56 mission from Launch Complex 40 deployed a payload of 28 broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
Florida Today1 min read
BusinessElon Musk’s SpaceX Finally Gets a Win After Multiple Failures
Elon Musk’s SpaceX reached a critical milestone this week as its Starship rocket successfully completed a full test mission. The achievement signals major progress for the company’s flagship spacecraft after months of technical setbacks. Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally gets a successful launch SpaceX achieved a major advancement on Tuesday evening as its Starship rocket completed […] The post Elon Musk’s SpaceX Finally Gets a Win After Multiple Failures appeared first on Mandatory.
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Mandatory
ScienceAliens Might Be Chatting With the Planet Next Door. We Could Listen In.
Some planets may block transmissions to and from Earth from being seen by alien observers, but scientists have cracked how to avoid the issue altogether.
4 min readPopular Mechanics
WorldEscaped slaves on St. Croix hid their settlements so well, they still haven’t been found – archaeologists using new mapping technology are on the hunt
As many as 10% of enslaved people on St. Croix escaped. Where they went has remained a mystery, but scientists are using new mapping technology to find answers.
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The Conversation- US
IDALS allocates $3M for pilot project to improve Iowa watersheds
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship said it has initially allocated $3 million from the Iowa Water Quality Initiative for the pilot.
The Des Moines Register3 min read 
ScienceScientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History
Remains of a Neanderthal who may have roamed the Earth 42,000 years ago offer insight into an isolated people
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Prevention
ScienceMystery 'object' sparks 'alien' warning as it hurtles toward Mars
An "interstellar object" discovered only last month is hurtling through the Solar System at an unprecedented 210,000 kilometres an hour and at an angle that has some astronomers raising eyebrows - as well as eyes to telescopes. 3I/Atlas, as the object has been named, is of unknown origin and is set to fly within a cosmic hair's breadth of Mars and Jupiter later this year as it screams in and out of the Solar System on almost the same plane as planets orbit the Sun.
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ScienceAncient cow tooth used to chip away at Stonehenge mystery
A team of scientists and archaeologists have found evidence that some of the massive monoliths placed at Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago were quarried over 200 kilometres away in Wales and possibly transported there with the help of cows. The origins and purpose of Stonehenge have long been a mystery, including how stones of such size and weight were transported at a time when the required technology and equipment were not supposed to have been developed.
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USWhen science meets music: Florida’s oyster decline is being told through jazz
A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis
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The Guardian
BusinessFact Check: This chart allegedly shows declining homophobic views worldwide. Here's context
The chart's subhead claimed it showed the "Share of people in each country who say homosexuality can never or rarely be justified in 2024 vs 1993."
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Snopes
BusinessStarship rocket completes successful test flight
The mammoth spacecraft is key to the company’s effort to win major US government contracts and expand its Starlink network of internet satellites.
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Semafor
USInside the fight over the recycling label on your milk carton
California's truth in labeling law reserves the recycling sign only for products and packaging that can truly be recycled. Yet CalRecycle greenlit the label for milk and juice cartons which are tough to recycle.
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LA Times
ScienceFinding the parents of Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay: how DNA analysis can trace a wine’s genetic origins
Forensic genetics can help us trace the ancestral source of any wine grape – and may lead to bioengineered wines in the future.
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The Conversation en Español- Science
Archaeologists in Georgia unearth 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone
OROZMANI, Georgia (Reuters) -Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements on the Eurasian continent. The Georgian site at Orozmani - smaller than two parking spaces but rich in history - has brought to light the oldest remains of early humans yet excavated outside Africa and offers clues to the patterns of Homo erectus, a hunter-gatherer species that scientists believe started migrating around two million years ago. "The study of the early human and fossil animal remains from Orozmani will allow us to determine the lifestyle of the first colonisers of Eurasia," said Giorgi Bidzinashvili, a professor of stone age archaeology at Ilia State University in Tbilisi.
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ScienceDon't miss the crescent moon meet up with blue star Spica tonight
Stargazers will need a clear view of the western horizon to spot the moon near Spica as the sun sets on Aug. 27.
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Space
ScienceThe ocean is getting more acidic, and it could affect sharks’ teeth
Climate change is making ocean water more acidic. A new study suggests that a drop in pH could erode sharks’ teeth.
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CNN
BusinessAmazon aiming to deploy Kuiper satellite services in Vietnam
HANOI (Reuters) -Amazon is aiming to deploy its Kuiper satellite services in Vietnam, Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology said in a statement. The statement from late on Tuesday came after a meeting in Hanoi between deputy minister Pham Duc Long and Gonzalo de Dios, head of Global Licensing and Project Kuiper at Amazon.
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BusinessScientists discover unexpected byproduct that could revolutionize concrete production: 'An encouraging step'
"This approach offers a more sustainable path ... without compromising performance."
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ScienceRare shark species thought to be extinct rediscovered after decades
Species susceptible to population declines from increased fishing, researchers warn
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The Independent
NewsPhotos of red-legged frog, which conservationists are working to restore to its California habitat
Conservationists along the U.S.-Mexico border are working to restore the nearly vanished red-legged frog in its historical Southern California habitat. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, scientists took frog eggs from a small population in Mexico and introduced them into American ponds, where biologists used artificial intelligence to confirm that the eggs had hatched and that the frogs went on to breed, marking a significant milestone in ecosystem restoration. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Associated Press
ScienceSpaceX sunrise launch recap: Live updates from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station mission
Live updates from Wednesday, Aug. 27, SpaceX Starlink 10-56 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Florida Today6 min read
ScienceMoon phase today: What the moon will look like on August 27, 2025
The moon is coming back.
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Mashable
ScienceResearchers issue concerning warning after studying behavior of tiny mammals: 'Their habitat is shrinking'
The space available to them will keep shrinking.
3 min readThe Cool Down
HealthScientists issue warning on overlooked factor that could exacerbate Alzheimer's: 'Spreads from the top down'
"A chain reaction."
3 min readThe Cool Down
ScienceScientists use robot to observe strange ocean phenomenon: 'Would have been nearly impossible with conventional methods'
The researchers published their findings in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
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BusinessSpaceX answers critics with successful Starship test flight
SpaceX's Starship megarocket roared into the skies Tuesday on its tenth test flight, turning in a strong performance after a series of fiery failures had begun to cast doubt on its future.Still, even with a successful tenth flight, major challenges loom.
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AFP
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