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Lab-Grown Mini Brains Survive a Record Seven Years

Harvard scientists have kept brain organoids alive far longer than ever before, and they continued to mature and 'remember' the passage of time at the cellular level.

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Fastest Star Ever Found: Racing Around Black Hole at 25,000 km/s

Newly discovered star orbits the supermassive black hole in just 8.7 years and could enable the first direct measurement of its spin.

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Massive Rocky 'Mega-Earth' Found 23 Times Heavier Than Our Planet

Exoplanet GJ 523b has a density that baffles astronomers because it hasn't accumulated a gaseous envelope despite crossing the critical mass threshold.

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AI Designs Functional Viruses for the First Time: Regulations Lag Behind

Scientists from Stanford and the Arc Institute used Evo 1 and Evo 2 models to create genomes that produced 16 functional bacteriophages, raising questions about regulatory oversight.

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China's Zhuque-3 Rocket Successfully Lands on Land

The Zhuque-3 rocket successfully landed on solid ground, marking China's first such achievement and the second overall, following an earlier return to a sea platform.

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NASA Releases Photos of Moon Crater Created by SpaceX Rocket Impact

The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket struck the Moon on August 5, and NASA has now released detailed images of the 18-meter-wide crater.

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Cosmic Hybrid Discovered: Half Black Hole, Half Star

The newly discovered object MoM-BH*-1 radiates 100 billion times more energy than known stars and could explain the mystery of supermassive black holes in the early universe.

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Tungsten: The Metal That Revolutionized Electric Lighting Thanks to Croats

Croatian chemist Franjo Hanaman, together with his collaborator Aleksandar Just, created the first light bulb with a tungsten filament, bringing electric light into every home.

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Physicists Create a System Where Action and Reaction Are Not Equal

A system of over 10,000 colloidal particles has demonstrated nonreciprocal interactions under an alternating electric field, opening the door to programmable materials.

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AI Created 16 Completely New Viruses

Scientists from Stanford and the Arc Institute used artificial intelligence to create viruses that do not exist in nature, opening the door to new therapies against superbugs, but also raising numerous safety questions.

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Musk Builds the Largest Building on Earth

The Terafab project in Texas will span 9.29 million square meters and could ultimately cost as much as $119 billion.

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Psychologist Warns: Technology Advances Faster Than Society, and That's Dangerous

Croatian psychologist and AI researcher Aco Momčilović warns of a societal gap and the need for a comprehensive analysis of technology's impact.

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Confirmed: Upper Stage of SpaceX Rocket Hit the Moon at 8,690 km/h

Scientists using telescopes in Chile detected chemical traces of the impact, which will help better understand space debris and protect future lunar missions.

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Croatian Team One Step Away from Making History

Amateur astronomers from Croatia have discovered a previously unknown nebula in the constellation Cygnus, located 2,350 light-years away. Confirmation of the discovery would mean entry into prestigious world catalogs.

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Scientists Release Closest-Ever Images of the Sun

Thanks to the Inouye telescope in Hawaii, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability-a phenomenon that creates distinctive wavy vortices-has been observed on the star's surface for the first time.

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NASA's PUNCH Mission Can Now Predict Solar Storms

A new constellation of microsatellites enables scientists to track coronal mass ejections all the way to Earth, cutting forecast error from five hours to under half an hour.

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SpaceX Plans 14th Starship Flight

Elon Musk announced an ambitious test for late August, crucial for full rocket reusability and launching new Starlink satellites.

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SpaceX: Starship Tower Catch Expected by End of Month

CEO Elon Musk made a series of ambitious statements about the company's future, from catching rockets to dominating global internet, while his executives tried to temper his claims.

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Space Debris on Course for the Moon: Collision with Einstein Crater

The upper stage of a rocket from a January 2025 mission will strike the lunar surface at 8,700 kilometers per hour, with NASA and South Korean orbiters observing the event.

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Man Without a Voice Speaks Two Million Words in 19 Months Thanks to BCI Implant

Casey Harrell, an ALS patient, used a brain-computer interface at home and achieved a milestone in converting thoughts to speech, without constant engineer assistance.

Z.N. · 30. 07. 2026. 0 95

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NASA Launches Roman Telescope on August 30, Nine Months Ahead of Schedule

While the four-billion-dollar space observatory prepares for its journey to Lagrange point L2, SpaceX simultaneously conducts launches for U.S. security forces.

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Spacecraft with Two Robotic Arms: Services Satellites, but Also Poses Threat in Orbit

US Escalates Tech War: Alongside Launch of Robotic Spacecraft, Washington Bans Imports of Chinese Humanoid Robots

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Chinese scientists develop 'living textile' from fungus that self-cleans and is biodegradable in 41 days

Innovative material from the fungus Cordyceps militaris can be adapted for UV protection and paves the way for circular fashion, South China Morning Post reported.

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SpaceX Launches Starship on 13th Test Flight with First Starlink Satellites

The spacecraft successfully launched from Texas on July 24, 2026, and for the first time carried 20 upgraded Starlink satellites into orbit, but the company's shares continue to suffer due to commercialization risks.

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