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Meet the ‘Baby Dragon’ Bird Hiding in Plain Sight
> At a Glance
> - The great eared nightjar looks like a tiny dragon with cat-like ear tufts
> - These 12-16 inch birds hunt moths mid-air and sip...
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NASA May Cut Crew-11 Mission Short After Astronaut Medical Issue
> At a Glance
> - NASA is weighing an early return for Crew-11 after a medical scare on the ISS
> - A Jan. 8 spacewalk was scrapped when one...
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15 New Right Whale Calves Offer Rare Hope for Species at 384
The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has welcomed 15 calves so far this breeding season, a rare uptick for a population that has lost...
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NASA Halts ISS Spacewalk Over Astronaut Medical Issue
At a Glance
NASA scrapped Thursday's first spacewalk of 2025 after an astronaut developed an undisclosed medical problem
The affected crew member is...
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Fog Catchers Pull 10L Daily in World’s Driest City
> At a Glance
> - Chilean team nets up to 10 liters of water per square meter daily from fog
> - Low-tech mesh panels could supply 10,000 residents...
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RoboTurtle Swims at CES 2026 After 2-Month Sea-Turtle Study
> At a Glance
> - Beatbot's RoboTurtle is swimming at CES 2026 after engineers spent two months filming live sea turtles
> - The bot mimics...
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Light-Powered Microrobots Shrink Robotics 10,000×
> At a Glance
> - University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan teams unveil autonomous microrobots smaller than a grain of salt
> - Devices...
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Rare Gorilla Twins Born in Virunga Boost Conservation Hopes
> At a Glance
> - Mountain gorilla Mafuko delivered healthy twin males on January 3, 2026
> - Only her second set of twins; the first died within a...
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World Models Promise AI That Understands Our Physical Reality
AI is pivoting from chatbots to systems that grasp gravity, motion, and space. Meet the "world models" tech giants say will power surgical robots,...
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Northern Lights May Glow Over 15 States This Week
A G1-level geomagnetic storm is brewing, and it could push the aurora borealis far enough south for millions of Americans to witness the...