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California’s first eight-hour grid battery just came online
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The California grid has a timing problem. Solar runs from mid-morning through early evening. Demand pea…
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4 fruits that may help reduce your breast cancer risk
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM High fruit intake is associated with many wonderful health benefits, like protecting our lungs from air…
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El Niño Is Underway
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NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces a public-private partnership to advance Mars science during an event at Relativity Space on June…
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Search for Hidden Cosmic Companions in Sun’s Backyard
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Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxies
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211.NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI); Image Processing: G. Kober (…
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Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site
The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.
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Humans may have hidden regenerative powers
Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may…
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Scientists discover spider that disguises itself as a parasitic fungus
Scientists have discovered a new Amazonian spider with an astonishing disguise: it looks like a parasitic fungus. The species, Taczanowskia …
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New study maps the peanut genome in its entirety
Peanuts are an important staple crop for many people around the world. As well as being delicious as smooth or crunchy peanut butter, their …
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The best math lesson for children might be happening at your kitchen table, shows study
In the minds of many people, math lives in the classroom-on blackboards, in textbooks, and in tests. New research from Amber Simpson, associ…
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Like humans, great apes think differently from each other
For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities evolved. Much o…
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Comb jelly embryos reveal embryonic signaling center shared across early animal evolution
In order for vertebrate embryos to develop their body axes, they require what is known as an embryonic signaling center. This group of cells…
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Young stellar activity drives galactic evolution across the universe
Astronomers have revealed new details about how young stars shape their galactic surroundings in a new study. Researchers analyzed about 18,…
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Traditional farming supports food, nature and cultural identity
Traditionally farmed landscapes can help produce food while also protecting nature and keeping cultural traditions alive. A research team le…
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Scientists uncover hidden phosphorus reservoir vital for future food production
Researchers have developed a simpler, more cost-effective method to measure a biologically important form of phosphorus in soils, providing …
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Molecular fossils reveal secrets of Earth's recovery from ancient global warming event
Scientists have uncovered new evidence from one of Earth's most extreme ancient warming events, revealing how the climate may recover long a…
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A scientific breakthrough for spinal injuries is emerging in Brazil - The World from PRX
A scientific breakthrough for spinal injuries is emerging in Brazil The World from PRX
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Muon G-2 Experiment Receives Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - Newswise
Muon G-2 Experiment Receives Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Newswise
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Superconductivity breakthrough could unlock ultra-efficient electronics - ScienceDaily
Superconductivity breakthrough could unlock ultra-efficient electronics ScienceDaily
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Diatom breakthrough: Revealing how these “jewels of the sea” thrive in fluctuating light conditions - Carnegie Science
Diatom breakthrough: Revealing how these “jewels of the sea” thrive in fluctuating light conditions Carnegie Science
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Nebraska U pioneers breakthrough swine vaccine innovation - Nebraska Today
Nebraska U pioneers breakthrough swine vaccine innovation Nebraska Today
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Breakthrough in HIV Remission: A Major Step Towards a Cure? - munichre.com
Breakthrough in HIV Remission: A Major Step Towards a Cure? munichre.com
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Scientists Just Discovered a Cellular Survival System That Was Never Supposed To Exist - SciTechDaily
Scientists Just Discovered a Cellular Survival System That Was Never Supposed To Exist SciTechDaily
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Scientists Solve a 30-Year Mystery Behind Inflammatory Bowel Disease - ScienceAlert
Scientists Solve a 30-Year Mystery Behind Inflammatory Bowel Disease ScienceAlert
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Chinese scientists uncover why many IVF embryos stop developing - Qazinform
Chinese scientists uncover why many IVF embryos stop developing Qazinform
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Meet Andrea Ghez: The puzzle-loving child who grew up to discover the Milky Way's supermassive black hole - The Times of India
Meet Andrea Ghez: The puzzle-loving child who grew up to discover the Milky Way's supermassive black hole The Times of India
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Scientists Discover New Rock Type On Mars - Mirage News
Scientists Discover New Rock Type On Mars Mirage News
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Scientists pinpoint rapid cell wall softening as Venus flytrap's snap trigger - MSN
Scientists pinpoint rapid cell wall softening as Venus flytrap's snap trigger MSN
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Nigeria moves to revive scientific research with new TETFund labs - The Guardian Nigeria News
Nigeria moves to revive scientific research with new TETFund labs The Guardian Nigeria News
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Darkness beats light? Einstein was right again as scientists discover darkness moving faster than light without breaking relativity rules - The Economic Times
Darkness beats light? Einstein was right again as scientists discover darkness moving faster than light without breaking relativity rules Th…
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Vibration Makes This New Material Stronger, Say Scientists - inkorr.com
Vibration Makes This New Material Stronger, Say Scientists inkorr.com
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Breakthrough Study Shows Mammals May Possess Hidden Regenerative Abilities - SSBCrack
Breakthrough Study Shows Mammals May Possess Hidden Regenerative Abilities SSBCrack
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A Piece of the Moon Found in Africa Records a Giant Lunar Impact From the Dawn of Life on Earth
A lunar meteorite links ancient impacts on the moon, Earth and asteroid Vesta.
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One of The Ocean’s Deadliest Snails Gave Us a Nonaddictive Painkiller and Scientists Say They Have Barely Scratched The Surface
They hide a vast chemical arsenal that researchers are mining for pain, diabetes, and brain disease therapies.
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Jules Verne predicted submarines and Moon missions. He also got some things hilariously wrong
For a man writing in the 1800s, he was often astonishingly close.
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Humans May Have Learned to Use Fire Nearly 800,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought, South African Cave Suggests
Tiny burned bones in a South African cave hint at a much older relationship with fire.
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Archaeologists Stunned as Iberians May Have Been Using Steel Way Before the Romans
Steel tools were employed in Europe centuries before they became widespread during the Roman Republic era.
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Scientists Recreate Golden Sea Silk, the Legandary Thread Once Fit for Emperors
They used farmed Korean shells instead.
Health
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Norway's crown princess undergoes successful lung transplant, palace says - Reuters
Norway's crown princess undergoes successful lung transplant, palace says Reuters
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A Five-Day Fasting-Style Diet Could Help Reduce Gum Disease Inflammation
Small trial suggests diet could support gum disease care, but not replace cleaning.
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Sweden’s Breathtaking New Train Ride to Oslo Passes By Best of Country’s Landscape
It’s easy to be romantic about train travel, and hard not to when you’re onboard Sweden’s latest new route to Oslo. On June 15th, Swedish ra…
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Japanese Fans Cleaned the Stadium After World Cup Match While the Players Cleaned Locker Room
The simple act of cleaning up after yourself. It’s the sign of a good house guest or well-raised children, but what about when “yourself” is…
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‘A Little Hero’ Saves Her Friend from Both Drowning AND a Seizure
A 12-year-old was labeled a hero after saving her friend from drowning with nothing more than a fistful of her hair to hang onto. The harrow…
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Knee Pain Suffered by Millions Can Be Eased Using New Non-Surgical Procedure
For millions of people suffering with knee pain, a new, non-surgical procedure offers the promise of easing it away for at least 12 months w…
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Good News in History, June 17
141 years ago, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York packed in 241 crates, as a gift from France. The steel skeleton and copper skin wer…
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Ireland is now paying artists a basic income. Will the idea catch on?
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Giant Picnic Basket-Shaped Office Building in Ohio Hits Market for $8.5M
This article was originally written by Dean Murray for SWNS - the U.K.’s largest independent news agency, providing globally relevant origin…
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'We travel 530 miles so our son can have a haircut'
How a very special hairdressing salon in Lowestoft is cutting it when it comes to neurodivergence.
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On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next
Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a no…
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Pluralism Hero: My Ancestor, John Van Zandt, an Abolitionist Who Helped Hundreds Find Freedom on the Underground Railroad - Interfaith America
Pluralism Hero: My Ancestor, John Van Zandt, an Abolitionist Who Helped Hundreds Find Freedom on the Underground Railroad Interfaith America
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Trenton Thunder Recognize World War II Veteran Orville Lee Hutchins - MLB Draft League
Trenton Thunder Recognize World War II Veteran Orville Lee Hutchins MLB Draft League
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'Seoul Dongbuk Hero Era' fan club donates 12.32 million won to Nowon Education and Welfare Foundation to celebrate singer Lim Young-woong's birthday, putting positive influence into practice - starnewskorea.com
'Seoul Dongbuk Hero Era' fan club donates 12.32 million won to Nowon Education and Welfare Foundation to celebrate singer Lim Young-woong's …
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Community champions honoured at inspiring West Wales Local Hero Awards - The Western Telegraph
Community champions honoured at inspiring West Wales Local Hero Awards The Western Telegraph
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BleuBully Bedding Donates $10,000 to Underdog Heroes Rescue - NBC Palm Springs
BleuBully Bedding Donates $10,000 to Underdog Heroes Rescue NBC Palm Springs
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Heroic Cape Verde keeper Vozinha to be reunited with mum at World Cup after visa issue - Reuters
Heroic Cape Verde keeper Vozinha to be reunited with mum at World Cup after visa issue Reuters
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From underdog to record holder: Jeremy Clements hits O’Reilly milestone in San Diego - Jayski
From underdog to record holder: Jeremy Clements hits O’Reilly milestone in San Diego Jayski
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Iowa sculptor behind ‘Rocky’ statue reflects on his own underdog story - Iowa Starting Line
Iowa sculptor behind ‘Rocky’ statue reflects on his own underdog story Iowa Starting Line
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Milford FC team manager vows the club will ‘stand its ground’ after securing promotion to the Betway Premiership - 'Rocky was always an underdog, but he always came on top' - Goal.com
Milford FC team manager vows the club will ‘stand its ground’ after securing promotion to the Betway Premiership - 'Rocky was always an unde…
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"They became the prey" - Samet Agdeve reflects on flipping the script from underdog to world champion - Sportskeeda
"They became the prey" - Samet Agdeve reflects on flipping the script from underdog to world champion Sportskeeda
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Young man celebrates becoming 1st in family to own tech company, shows proof - Yen News
Young man celebrates becoming 1st in family to own tech company, shows proof Yen News
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Young Nigerian Man Celebrates as His Dreams Come True, Becomes First in Family to Own Tech Company - Legit.ng
Young Nigerian Man Celebrates as His Dreams Come True, Becomes First in Family to Own Tech Company Legit.ng
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Flexible cryogenic cables for dilution refrigerators could pave path to practical quantum computers
By harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics, scientists and engineers worldwide seek to enable systems with extraordinary capab…
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Helios quantum computer tops 99.9% fidelity rates for one- and two-qubit operations
A public-private partnership in the Mountain West announced new results today that mark steady progress toward the Department of Energy's go…
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How satellite technology can protect the world's drinking water
River experts say new satellite technology holds the promise of protecting water quality around the world.
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Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
__________________________THE PLACENairobi, Kenya Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking central…
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Breakthrough Exoskeleton Therapy Aids Stroke Recovery - Mirage News
Breakthrough Exoskeleton Therapy Aids Stroke Recovery Mirage News
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New scenarios for photonic computing: a new era of photonic AI for medical diagnosis - EurekAlert!
New scenarios for photonic computing: a new era of photonic AI for medical diagnosis EurekAlert!
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OSU Breakthrough Inspired by the Human Brain, It May Make AI More Energy Efficient - The Corvallis Advocate
OSU Breakthrough Inspired by the Human Brain, It May Make AI More Energy Efficient The Corvallis Advocate
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Breakthrough Exoskeleton Therapy Promises to Transform Gait Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors - Bioengineer.org
Breakthrough Exoskeleton Therapy Promises to Transform Gait Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors Bioengineer.org
ZME Science
Scientists Brewed Espresso at Room Temperature Using Ultrasound and Saved 75% of the Energy. The Coffee Tastes The Same
Ultrasonic espresso’ made with cold water and high-frequency sound waves uses less energy than the traditional version – and taste tests sho…
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OpenAI Model Cracked an 80-Year-Old Math Problem and Mathematicians Are Stunned
Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made mathematicians pay …
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Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on t…
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On the brink of extinction, the vaquita gets a digital lifeline
Scientists have digitally preserved the world’s most endangered marine mammal by creating highly detailed 3D models of a vaquita skeleton us…
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Q&A: Why so many whales are in Vancouver waters-and how to (legally) spot them
If you've noticed more whales visiting local waters, you're not imagining it: Vancouver's gargantuan guests are here thanks to the season, g…
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Secrets of the mysterious 'ghost dogs' of the Amazon revealed after rare sightings - Metro.co.uk
Secrets of the mysterious 'ghost dogs' of the Amazon revealed after rare sightings Metro.co.uk
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River otters are making a comeback – and in surprising places around the Chesapeake Bay - Baltimore Sun
River otters are making a comeback – and in surprising places around the Chesapeake Bay Baltimore Sun
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Scientists Finally Made a Test to Find Out If Your Dog Is Left-Pawed or Right-Pawed
A new “Doginburgh Inventory” finds most dogs favor one paw, at least weakly.