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  • Strange new sponge species is given the name “magnificent alien”

    Strange new sponge species is given the name “magnificent alien”

    Far below the Pacific waves, nearly 6,560 feet down, a pale sponge on a thin stalk lives on a cold, dark slope. This new sponge was given the scientific name Advhena magnifica, which means “magnificant alien,” which is an apt…

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  • Multi-University Hypersonics Research Initiative Launches at UCF

    Multi-University Hypersonics Research Initiative Launches at UCF

    Leading researchers from across the country gathered at UCF on Dec. 12 to launch a major Multi University Research Initiative (MURI), supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, aimed at transforming how scientists understand and…

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  • Amendment 30: Updates to the ROSES-25 Summary of Solicitation

    Amendment 30: Updates to the ROSES-25 Summary of Solicitation

    ROSES-2025 is an omnibus or umbrella solicitation that contains many program element appendices (listed in Tables 2 and 3) and the ROSES-25 Summary of Solicitation (SoS) lays out the backstop rules that apply by default to those program…

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  • Giant rock mass beneath island hints at ancient origins – The Royal Gazette

    Giant rock mass beneath island hints at ancient origins – The Royal Gazette

    Created: Dec 15, 2025 03:16 PM

    What lies beneath: a satellite view of Bermuda and the surrounding reef platform. The island sits on a vast intrusion of rock pushing up the oceanic crust (File photograph)

    Scientific…

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  • What babies’ brains teach us about development

    What babies’ brains teach us about development

    A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don’t have a strong understanding of how a baby’s brain develops while they’re awake.

    New research from Northeastern University sheds light on how babies develop…

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  • Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas will make closest approach to Earth on Friday

    Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas will make closest approach to Earth on Friday

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.

    Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass…

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  • World heading toward ‘peak glacier extinction’ with up to 4,000 set to disappear a year

    World heading toward ‘peak glacier extinction’ with up to 4,000 set to disappear a year

    BERN  –  Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol had been a glacier, but human-driven…

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  • Beyond the ground station: Why space data centers require a distributed RAID

    Beyond the ground station: Why space data centers require a distributed RAID

    Low Earth orbit is undergoing the fastest expansion in its history. However, the nature of the payload is changing. We are moving past simple “bent-pipe” communication relays — where a satellite simply receives a signal and beams it…

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