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Scientists uncover how ancient Roman concrete became more durable over nearly 2,000 years

Researchers have made significant strides in understanding the enduring nature of ancient Roman concrete, which has surprisingly withstood the test of time. Through a natural process within an untouched latrine at Hadrian's Villa, calcite formed and enhanced the concrete's strength and longevity.

The Economic Times

No rivers, no wells, no rain needed: How a Nobel Prize-winning scientist's invention produces up to 1,000 litres of drinking water daily from thin air

Omar Yaghi Water-From-Air Innovation: Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has helped develop a groundbreaking machine that can produce clean drinking water directly from the air, even in extremely dry regions. Using advanced materials known as Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), the device captures moisture from the atmosphere and converts it into potable…

The Economic Times

Why don't more Tatooine-like exoplanets exist in our Milky Way galaxy? Astronomers might have an answer

Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet Tatooine, are so scarce in our galaxy — and it has to do with general relativity.

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Who was Saketh Sreenivasaiah? Indian-origin UC Berkeley student found dead in US

22-year-old Saketh Sreenivasaiah, an Indian postgraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley was found dead on Sunday. Sreenivasaiah, who hailed from Karnataka had been reported missing earlier this week before local authorities confirmed the recovery of his body.

The Times of India

‘Hot droughts’ could push the Amazon into a hypertropical climate by 2100 - and trees won’t survive

A hypertropical climate has not occurred on Earth in at least 10 million years.

Euronews

California Wants a 5% 'Billionaire Tax' — Will The Ultra-Rich Pay Up Or Pack Up?

California's wealthiest residents could soon face a new kind of tax bill — one that targets their net worth rather than their income. A proposed ballot measure known as the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act would impose a one-time 5% levy on the fortunes of roughly 200 billionaires living in the…

Benzinga

Science history: Scientists use 'click chemistry' to watch molecules in living organisms — Oct. 23, 2007

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, opening up a window into living organisms.

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Princeton And California Take Team Honors At St Andrews Links Collegiate

The third edition of the prestigious college tournament took place at the Home of Golf

Golf Monthly

From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis – for their study of quantum mechanics in a macroscopic electrical circuit.

The Conversation

A list of this year's Nobel Prize winners so far

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel announcements to a conclusion

The Independent UK

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

The Guardian - UK

Kenya’s Turkana people genetically adapted to live in harsh environment, study suggests

Research which began with conversations round a campfire and went on to examine 7m gene variants shows how people survive with little water and a meat-rich diet

The Guardian - UK

Hubble Telescope sees wandering black hole slurping up stellar spaghetti

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

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Trump administration opens investigation on UC Berkeley over foreign funding

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, centered on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government

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Scientists say they have discovered a new colour ‘olo’ - but there’s a catch

Scientists hope the experimental technique called ‘Oz’ could someday simulate vision for the colour‑blind and help model diseases with accuracy

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Scientists may have finally found where the 'missing half' of the universe's matter is hiding

About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say previously undetected clouds of hydrogen gas could finally reveal it.

The Independent UK

Facing anti-DEI investigations, colleges cut ties with nonprofit targeted by conservatives

The U.S. Education Department says it has investigated dozens of universities for alleged racial discrimination, citing ties to a nonprofit organization that has helped Black and Latino students pursue business degrees

LiveScience

'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expected

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike anything scientists expected.

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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers

A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.

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Can you ‘undo’ political polarization? Left and right might be closer than we think, study finds

University of California, Berkeley, research shows people are committed to protecting democratic institutions despite differences

The Guardian - US

The evolution of Kamala Harris: from activist in pigtails to presidential candidate

The daughter of civil rights activists has an unbroken history of working to change ‘anything that wasn’t right’, friends say

The Guardian - US

The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’

Chronicler of San Francisco’s now-vanished Fillmore district who studied under Ansel Adams turned his lens on his people

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UC Berkeley Denounces Protest At Jewish Student Event

UC Berkeley condemns protest disrupting Jewish student event, launches criminal investigation into safety concerns.

The Guardian - UK

Cookstove carbon offsets overstate climate benefit by 1,000%, study finds

Cookstove projects are one of the fastest-growing carbon offset schemes but research finds carbon benefits are vastly overstated

The Independent UK

Cameron Diaz wants to ‘normalise’ sleeping in separate bedrooms – could it help your relationship?

Diaz is married to Good Charlotte star Benji Madden

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