It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an orderly shutdown of the publication. No new content will be published after Dec. 31, 2025. While the sunset of The Earth Observer is bittersweet for our team, the good news i…

Cell surface proteins are key disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets, yet high-throughput methods for aptamer discovery targeting these proteins in situ remain limited. We introduce single-cell perturbation-driven aptamer recognition and kinetics ...

Shannen Doherty’s estate has claimed that her ex-husband Kurt Iswarienko owes money after refusing to list their $1.5 million Texas home, despite the terms outlined in their divorce agreement.

By moving around, some cancer cells force attacking immune cells to just nibble at the edges rather than engulf them completely.

Investors owning more than 100 properties account for a mere one percent of the US single-family housing stock, according to a recent and penetrating analysis by my AEI colleagues. Even at their peak, these firms never represented more than three percent of annual home purchases.
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When you picture the ocean, you might imagine peaceful blue waters and an underwater world full of calm and quiet. But beneath the surface, the ocean is actually far from silent — a full-blown symphony of calls, clicks, and crashing currents. From the popping sounds of snapping shrimp to the piercin…

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change. Russell Vough…

The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code.
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Viking 1 was launched by a Titan-Centaur rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:22 p.m. EDT on Aug. 20, 1975, to begin a half-billion mile, 11-month journey through space to explore Mars. The 4-ton spacecraft went into orbit around the red planet in mid-1976 and landed on Ma…

As young people take on a messy dating landscape, they’ve created their own lexicon to match. Here’s like what phrases ‘bird theory’ and ‘monkey branching’ meanThis year marked a decade since the term “ghosting” hit the mainstream. At the time, the idea that someone could abruptly cease communicatio…

We’d like to hear from people who are training AI to replace their current rolesAnalysis by the International Monetary Fund says Artificial intelligence will affect about 40% of jobs around the world.We’d like to find out more about the impact of AI on jobs now. With this in mind, we want to hear fr…

Google’s new building is on one side, ‘Post No Bills’ on the other.

I was excited to arrive at this year’s meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in November, but also a bit hesitant. I went in bright-eyed and ready to learn about all the ways to achieve global cooperation and to make…

Toxic metals are pushing infrared detector makers into a corner, but NYU Tandon researchers have developed a cleaner solution using colloidal quantum dots. These detectors are made like “inks,” allowing scalable, low-cost production while showing impressive infrared sensitivity. Combined with transp…