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Purdue and Archaeological Legacy Institute researchers reached Nikumaroro on Monday for a five-day inspection of the Taraia Object. Seen in 2020 satellite imagery at a lagoon edge, it is read by some as Earhart's plane and by others as a collapsed tree.
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Ramya Ambikapathi's team screened 23,250 records for a Food Policy review and found research on informal food vendors scattered and loosely defined. The gaps matter because those vendors anchor food security and livelihoods for over a billion people in low- and middle-income countries, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT says.
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Researchers measuring emissions from a Long Island cell tower found paints, cleaners and building materials were major summer sources of urban VOCs. The team says the models cities and states use to forecast and regulate air quality do not accurately include these heat-sensitive sources.
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Roselyn Campbell of Purdue found likely fatal fractures on 18 of 46 First Dynasty skulls from Abydos that Petrie had taken for natural damage. The result gives Petrie's 1920s suspicion of retainer sacrifice physical support, though only for the skulls he kept from hundreds of graves.
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Holtec filed its safety analysis with the NRC, completing the permit application for two SMR-300 reactors totalling 680 MW at Palisades. Reviews of individual design pieces have NRC dates, but the public record shows no date yet for the permit decision that would let construction start.
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Perseverance's SuperCam survey of more than 185 targets shows Jezero's Margin Unit is magma-formed olivine rock that met water at least three times. Groundwater and later hot fluids joined the crater lake in reworking it, so its carbonate is a harder record to read.
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Trump's tariff cut on up to 661 million pounds of imported lean beef trimmings will shave a couple of cents off ground beef at best, by Vox's reckoning. The political cost runs the other way, as farm-state Republicans attack a plan that helps their cattle ranchers' foreign competitors.
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SWANS, described in Science, sent faint pulses about 40 centimeters through a rat's tissue to switch on a nerve-stimulating implant in its hind leg. Dropping the radio shrinks the devices to syringe size, though that range was measured only in rats.
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The ODIN survey turned up 150 protoclusters from the universe's first three billion years. 3D follow-up on two of them shows structures on track to outgrow the Coma Cluster without straining the current cosmic-web picture.
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Orbiters read the carbonate at Jezero's margin as lake chemistry; Perseverance found volcanic rock that water altered at least three times, in a sequence the team can order but cannot date.
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McKinsey and the SEMI Foundation put the US shortfall at up to 157,000 semiconductor workers by 2030, and with 3% of engineering graduates entering chips, the fabs coming online are bidding for staff who already have jobs.
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Colorado State researchers modeled a United States where every field went rainfed, and found the replacement cropland would release 6.86 gigatons of carbon, or 363 years of what irrigation's own pumping emits in a year.
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The Indiana plant broke ground in August with a clean room due by October 2028 and next-generation HBM in mass production the following year, which leaves anyone specifying memory for a 2027 product buying from today's lines.
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Amanda Sickafoose's team ran every Pluto stellar occultation from 1988 to 2023 through one analysis, so a change in the record could not be an artifact of who processed it. The 2022 and 2023 data show pressure falling.
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Inclusions in one Antarctic meteorite cooled in a field of 150 to 600 microtesla, above anything Earth's surface sees today, which makes substituting extra gravity for magnetism in disc simulations harder to defend.
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A husband-and-wife team at Purdue calculates that almost nothing escaped upward through the impact dust, which would cook unsheltered animals within two hours and set lichen alight. It is one model, and its headline number is a calculation rather than a measurement.
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After a decade of capital spending, Rolls-Royce now owns ground and altitude test cells in Indiana. The programs leaning on them are the Air Force B-52 and Army MV-75 engines, both still future engines rather than production ones.
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Purdue researchers measured nanoparticles forming within minutes of routine cleaning in a model house. The precursor is the fragrance, which turns product choice into a ventilation problem.
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Engineers have published spacing and holding strategies for spacecraft waiting their turn at lunar Gateway, well ahead of the landers and cargo craft that will have to fly them.
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A tripling of days above 105 F in the US arrives long before the theoretical survivability limit does. The operational threshold is a healthy adult in the shade, and parts of the country already cross it.
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