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NASA technicians integrate the Roman Space Telescope’s coronagraph instrument into its instrument carrier in a cleanroom.

Roman’s new coronagraph saw starlight—not a planet. That’s the point

Roman’s coronagraph has produced its first focused image of a star as NASA checks pointing and optical systems, a commissioning milestone rather than a planet detection.

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Paulus Pontius’s 1626 allegorical engraving of Count-Duke Olivares, the printed image that preserved a portrait attributed to Velázquez.

Known only through an engraving, a lost Velázquez becomes the Getty’s first

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Buddy Guy smiling and playing electric guitar at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1992.

Buddy Guy’s 90th birthday brought an all-star tribute. He’s already making another album

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Archival 2004 photograph of Poipu Beach on Kauaʻi’s South Shore, showing a rocky coast, palms and a resort; not a post-storm image.

Kauai asked tourists to stay away after Lowell. Now its small shops need them back

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Two people seal a business meeting with a handshake across a cafe table.

M&A fell below $1 trillion in Q3. Its nine-month total is highest since 2001

Global deal value fell 41% from Q2 to $993 billion—the first sub-$1 trillion quarter since mid-2025—even as nine-month activity reached $3.9 trillion, the strongest year-to-date total since 2001.

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Crowds of tourists walk along the Great Wall of China at Badaling.

A 13-day break is reshaping China’s Golden Week trips. Will travelers spend more?

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Miami Dolphins running back De’Von Achane in a 2024 FanDuel interview screenshot.

Achane is out for the season. Miami still has two backs to audition

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Archival image of Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers players contesting the puck in a 2015 game in Raleigh.

Carolina raised its championship banner. Florida spoiled the night with 4.3 seconds left

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Robinhood Markets wordmark and feather logo in black on a white background.

Robinhood is taking stocks into weekends—but not reopening the exchanges

Robinhood plans to let customers trade a curated set of U.S. stocks and ETFs on weekends through a separate trading system, extending its weekday overnight market while leaving questions about liquidity and execution for launch.

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Taylor Swift performs in a sparkling blue costume during the Eras Tour’s Midnights set at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Aug. 9, 2023.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ hit a Spotify 2026 record—then its video turned deadly

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Polysomnography traces showing eye-movement channels during a recorded REM sleep segment, outlined in red.

A week of wrist data tied REM sleep to 83 diseases. It can’t show why.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco.

Anthropic’s sales soared 12-fold. Its future infrastructure commitments hit $518 billion

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Figure comparing the lactoferricin region with reconstructed ancestral and modern lactoferrin protein structures and an evolutionary tree.

An ancient peptide outperformed modern human lactoferricin against S. aureus—in the lab

In lab tests, a reconstructed ancestral lactoferricin cut viable *Staphylococcus aureus* about 100,000-fold, but researchers have not shown it can treat an infection.

2 months ago

SpaceX Starship rises above clouds and launch-site smoke during Flight 11 at Starbase in October 2025.

Starship reached orbit with an engine out—then came home early

2 months ago

Aerial view of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park with Los Angeles skyline behind it.

The Lucas Museum opened with Star Wars bait—and a bigger bet on what counts as art

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Empty red-seat cinema auditorium with a wide projection screen and wall speakers.

Hollywood had its biggest summer ever. The strange part is what brought audiences back

2 months ago

Hewlett Packard Enterprise headquarters in Spring, Texas

HPE’s AI boom is running into a very ordinary problem: not enough parts

HPE’s quarterly sales and outlook jumped as AI infrastructure demand accelerated, but supply constraints are leaving orders ahead of revenue.

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Infographic showing ESA’s Juice spacecraft path past Earth on September 28, including the 8,640-kilometre closest approach and later route toward Jupiter.

Juice is skimming Earth again—and borrowing its speed for Jupiter

2 months ago

Computer-rendered protein structure in blue and teal against flowing lines, illustrating an AlphaFold viral protein model

AlphaFold just mapped thousands of viral protein partnerships. The models still need a lab check

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NOAA infographic mapping notable U.S. weather and climate events in August 2026, including drought covering 59.1% of the contiguous United States on September 1.

The U.S. just had its hottest summer on record. Drought still spread across 59% of the country

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