Articles by wglb
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NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (space.com)

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An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth's size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core (phys.org)

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Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified (phys.org)

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Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (nytimes.com)

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Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time (wired.com)

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Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion (phys.org)

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Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-ms pulsar 3,900 light-years away (phys.org)

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The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4 (arxiv.org)

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Tapeworm hijacks worker ants, giving them queen-like metabolism and longer lives (phys.org)

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That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing (rachelbythebay.com)

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Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet (nytimes.com)

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JWST discovers a new barred spiral galaxy (phys.org)

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Ovaries may take on job in immune system after tenure as reproductive organs (medicalxpress.com)

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Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water (phys.org)

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Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare for a single ant species (phys.org)

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NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up (nytimes.com)

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Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz (2001) (paulgraham.com)

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Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions (the-decoder.com)

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Lithp.py (~2008) (fogus.me)

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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025) (theregister.com)

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Gravitational-wave detections double with new catalog (northwestern.edu)

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Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars' (northwestern.edu)

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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter (theregister.com)

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JWST reveals dawn-dusk atmosphere split on ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121B (phys.org)

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Covered Models (Claude.com) (claude.com)

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A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions (phys.org)

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Found: Milky Way black hole's missing wind (northwestern.edu)

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Local 'Little Red Dots' stay eerily steady for up to 15 years (sciencex.com)

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"my battery is low and it's getting dark" – were never sent from Mars (spacedaily.com)

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Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties (phys.org)

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User just tricked Grok and Bankrbot to send tokens with Morse code (cryptopolitan.com)

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Astronomers uncover > 1k radio galaxies with 'wings,' expanding a rare class (phys.org)

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A lost galaxy called 'Loki' may be hiding inside the Milky Way (phys.org)

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Oak trees outwit their predators (phys.org)

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Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve (phys.org)

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Two blazing quasars caught waltzing into a merger (phys.org)

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Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected (sciencex.com)

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The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models (ibm.com)

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Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, remains expose a pathogen found earlier (phys.org)

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Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock (phys.org)

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Colorado River disappeared record for 5M years: now we know where it was (phys.org)

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The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life (newscientist.com)

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WireGuard developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account (techcrunch.com)

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Cell Phone Networks Are Just Microservices (cape.co)

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Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747) (calif.io)

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New Spider Mimics 'The Last of Us' Zombie Fungus Cordyceps (nytimes.com)

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After This Fungus Turns Ants into Zombies, Their Bodies Explode (2019) (nytimes.com)

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DESI maps C-19, an metal-poor Milky Way stellar stream (phys.org)

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Astronomers discover long-period radio transient of unknown origin (phys.org)

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CW Radio Signals Require Fix Faulty Equipment on Boeing 787s (paddleyourownkanoo.com)

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Scientists Create Powerful New Form of Aluminum, Could Replace Rare Earth Metals (scitechdaily.com)

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Why mathematicians hate Good Will Hunting (scientificamerican.com)

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Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king (phys.org)

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Thunderstorms conjure ghostly coronae in treetops (phys.org)

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Astronomers Wake Up to 800k Notifications from Observatory (gizmodo.com)

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OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw signals the the end of the ChatGPT (venturebeat.com)

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Quantitativity on the number of rational points in the Mordell conjecture (scientificamerican.com)

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2D memristors could help solve AI's energy problem (phys.org)

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Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23M years of climate history (phys.org)

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Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (medicalxpress.com)

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Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova (sciencedaily.com)

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Beyond SAST: Using Gemini to Orchestrate Semantic Source Reviews (ciex-software.com)

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3D map of the sun's magnetic interior could improve predictions of solar flares (phys.org)

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Gaia data reveal three galactic open clusters in detail (phys.org)

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Mammoth fossils from Alaska turn out to belong to two ancient whales (phys.org)

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Persistent shock wave around dead star puzzles astronomers (phys.org)

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Glazed sherds in remote Gobi Desert reveal ancient Persian trade connections (phys.org)

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Astronomer uses 'China Sky Eye' to reveal binary origin of fast radio bursts (phys.org)

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Researchers solve mystery of universe's 'little red dots' (phys.org)

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Simulation: Jupiter holds 1.5 times more oxygen than the sun (phys.org)

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Renewable-powered system uses calcium to reduce emissions and scale for farmers (phys.org)

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British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran (phys.org)

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Antarctic submillimeter telescope enables shows full view of carbon cycle (phys.org)

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Repeating fast radio burst shows diverse activity and hints at magnetar origin (phys.org)

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Jupiter's moon Europa lacks undersea activity needed to support life (phys.org)

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Jupiter's moon Europa lacks undersea activity needed for life, study suggests (phys.org)

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Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star (phys.org)

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Radio observations to date find no evidence of technosignature from 3I/ATLAS (phys.org)

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Askap discovers an outflow in a nearby galaxy (phys.org)

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'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed (phys.org)

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Misinformation is an inevitable biological reality across nature (phys.org)

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Ghostly solar neutrinos caught transforming carbon atoms deep underground (phys.org)

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Searchable Bronze Age site database could help understand ancient Anatolia (phys.org)

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Tumbleweed aerodynamics inspire hybrid robots for harsh terrains (techxplore.com)

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Why mysterious structures within Earth's mantle hold clues to life here (phys.org)

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Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their queen, then takes the throne (phys.org)

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A “knot dominated era” may have existed in the early universe: study (phys.org)

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Microsoft offers no-cost Windows 10 lifeline (techxplore.com)

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Million-year-old skull could change human evolution timeline (phys.org)

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First complete measurement of black-hole recoil found due to gravitational waves (phys.org)

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Medications leave lasting mark on gut microbiome, even years after use (medicalxpress.com)

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New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil (phys.org)

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Acupuncture might be effective treatment for chronic low back pain older adults (medicalxpress.com)

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Dallas scientist wins 'America's Nobel' for research of 'ugly duckling' proteins (phys.org)

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Mysterious 'red dots' in early universe may be 'black hole star' atmospheres (phys.org)

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Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging (phys.org)

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Dandelions control the dispersal of their seeds through asymmetrical attachment (phys.org)

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Discovery of a new satellite or ring arc around Quaoar (phys.org)

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Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old (phys.org)

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Likely places to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence (phys.org)