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Manoomin, treated by tribes as family for millennia, is vanishing. Drones may help save it
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (419+ words) "There's just this moment of excitement and the acknowledgement that we are doing something." New research suggests drones could aid efforts to protect remaining manoomin in the Upper Midwest as the plant disappears from lakes and wetlands. For Indigenous communities,…...
NASA names Artemis III crew for a 'complex' 2027 test flight, including the first European astronaut
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (536+ words) "My brain, it is going a mile a minute right now." NASA has assigned four astronauts to Artemis III, the next mission in its moon program and the major follow-up to April's widely watched lunar flyby." Planned for 2027, the flight…...
Professors say students can't finish a 20-page article as sustained reading craters
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (545+ words) "What I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch." A professor described students who could not get through 20 pages of assigned reading, a story many people see as a sign that reading stamina " and the attention needed…...
Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning startup is laying off workers as governments push back on the Orb
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (344+ words) Layoffs have hit Sam Altman's biometric ID venture as criticism of its best-known device continues to build. Tools for Humanity, the maker of the eye-scanning Orb, is cutting staff. Meanwhile, regulators in several countries continue to question how the company…...
Experimental Alzheimer's compound helps mice live longer by hitting a target existing drugs miss
11+ hour, 52+ min ago (447+ words) "It took so long simply because everything takes so long in Alzheimer's research." Mouse research has pointed to a possible new Alzheimer's treatment. The experimental Compound 10 appeared to help animals live longer, limit nerve cell damage, and reduce the damage…...
Adult child turns off Temu notifications on mom's phone after cheap mystery packages pile up
12+ hour, 49+ min ago (415+ words) "She doesn't even know what it is when it arrives because it's all cheap and in pieces." A Reddit user frustrated by their mom's Temu habit is drawing online support after secretly disabling the app's alerts on her phone to…...
Man paid to tattoo meme coin on his forehead " then the typo became a real coin
15+ hour, 41+ min ago (469+ words) The token hit a market cap of about $373, 000 within hours. A typo in a crypto bounty took on a life of its own after a man in Southern India accepted 40 SOL to tattoo a meme coin phrase on his forehead....
Home gardener says wide plant spacing is inefficient and shows how packed beds 'increase " yields by more than 40 times"
21+ hour, 41+ min ago (473+ words) "The soil needs rest. It's not a factory, it's an ecosystem." A home gardener's tightly packed planting layout is drawing attention online after the creator argued that traditional row spacing leaves much of a space's food-growing potential unused. In a…...
Homesteader thought the poison hemlock war was over, then a blackberry thicket proved otherwise
23+ hour, 54+ min ago (365+ words) "My neighbor's not doing anything about his poison hemlock. It's like he's farming it." One Pacific Northwest homesteader shared their victory in a fight with poison hemlocks just moments before immediately discovering that a blackberry thicket was still hiding more…...
Tiny 'mirror-ball' spiders hide in plain sight with crystal patches that work 'like a disco ball"
1+ day, 13+ min ago (385+ words) A tiny spider with a body that flashes like a disco ball gave social media users one more reason to marvel at the natural world. A post on Reddit drew attention to so-called mirror-ball spiders, explaining how these glittering arachnids…...