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Arctic sea ice ties for 10th-lowest summer minimum since 1978
The minimum came on September 12, and all 20 of the lowest on record have occurred since 2007.
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Dog brains track consonants in speech, just like human brains
Hungarian researchers recorded brain waves from 20 dogs and 20 people, and both picked out words built around consonants more easily.
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Europe's most powerful supercomputer gets European processors
JUPITER in Jülich has started receiving Rhea1 chips from French company SiPearl after running mostly on Nvidia hardware.
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Pulsar's 42-light-year X-ray tail explains mysterious gamma rays
The trail behind PSR J1740+1000 is the longest known and lines up with radiation that had no identified source.
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Perovskite solar cells tuned for seawater work 10 meters down
Cells from Yunnan University capture the blue and green light that reaches that depth and are meant for underwater sensors and robots.
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Austrian gravel pit yields 500 Iron Age bars, a European record
The iron weighs more than a metric ton and probably sank with a boat carrying it down the Danube for trade.
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Greenland and Antarctica lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice
Data from 27 satellites show the melt raised sea levels about 3.1 centimeters, mostly driven by warmer ocean water.
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Any moon of Venus would have spiraled down and crashed, model shows
A UC Riverside simulation finds the planet's slow, backward spin drags orbiting moons toward its surface.
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NC State film insulates better than any material found in nature
A hybrid perovskite conducts heat five times worse than silicone while being thousands of times stiffer.
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Scientists burned replica scrolls to learn to read Herculaneum ones
Replica papyri written with lead-laced ink were charred in a furnace, and the text stood out clearly on X-ray scans.
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Wild honeybees enter the EU Red List as endangered for the first time
Colonies living in tree hollows are losing their homes, and could drop by more than half within 10 years.
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Bolivia's Leopardus tilcayo is the first new wildcat in a century
The spotted cat is smaller than a house cat and known from only two animals, identified through genomes and museum specimens.