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Newly identified 'muscles' shape trees in way once thought uniquely animal:
Nearly 15 years ago, scientists found that plants had a biological mechanism that controls their morphology – or, in simpler terms, their form – thought to have only been something seen in animals.
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04 September 2026.
Brain wave-tracking wearable promises to detect your level of focus:
If you find it hard to focus or stay present in the moment, you can now buy a device that tells you just how often your mind drifts elsewhere.
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07 September 2026.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt:
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about calls for RFK Jr.
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06 September 2026.
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO):
Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic.
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04 December 2025.
Cornell CAT awards support seven new biotechnology partnerships:
Seven Cornell research teams have received Center for Advanced Technology grants to advance early-stage life science technologies through collaborations with biotechnology companies across New York state.
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26 August 2026.
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Pixel 11 review: Google sets the bar for standard flagship phones:
Longer battery life, faster chip, actually useful AI tools and better cameras keep quality Android ahead of competitionGoogle’s Pixel 11 continues to set the standard for what you should expect from the base model of a flagship phone with class-leading cameras, long software support and almost all the bells and whistles of its most expensive phones.
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08 September 2026.
Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers:
Exhibition opens in former home of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, and his comet-spotting sibling CarolineFrom the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister made a series of extraordinary astronomical discoveries.
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08 September 2026.
Gaps in evidence on vaccinating badgers against TB, researchers say:
Researchers want increased monitoring of the vaccination's impact on the disease and a review of the evidence.
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07 September 2026.
Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms:
Democrats and Republicans have found common ground in this campaign season.
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05 September 2026.
Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.:
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students.
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08 September 2026.
Macbeth and His Problems:
A sharp essay on why Macbeth is so hard to stage well: the play’s magic, tonal whiplash, and thin motivation for Macbeth himself.
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08 September 2026.
How Ancient Farmers Used Floral Designs to Track Goods:
A Mesopotamian culture’s decorated ceramics show some early roots of math, researchers argued.
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08 September 2026.
Scientists map key protein interactions linked with profound autism:
Research published in the journal Science illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.
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04 September 2026.
Macbeth and His Problems:
A sharp essay on why Macbeth is so hard to stage well: the play’s magic, tonal whiplash, and thin motivation for Macbeth himself.
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08 September 2026.
Does Brave Browser Load Faster Than Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge?:
The Brave web browser published a new round of benchmarks claiming its desktop browser uses less system resources than Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox — and also loads pages faster.
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08 September 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
Are there nuclear weapons hidden in space? Why a 60-year ban on space nukes has been impossible to enforce:
Nuclear weapons have been banned from space for nearly 60 years.
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07 September 2026.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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