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7+ hour, 41+ min ago   (124+ words) Dozens of earthquakes shook parts of Southern California over the weekend. The phenomenon is called a swarm. The Los Angeles Times said that the swarm of 90 small quakes rattled South Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday. They were all near…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago   (95+ words) LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA - A 2.4 magnitude quake struck close to Hawthorne at midnight on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The USGS reported a tremor in the region at 12:35 a.m. The epicenter was approximately 1 mile east-northeast of Hawthorne, at a depth of…...

2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (813+ words) Nitrogen locked in coral skeletons traces 270 years of Mississippi River pollution reaching a reef long considered remarkably resilient. The Flower Garden Banks reef, off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, has spent decades looking untouchable. It stayed strikingly healthy even…...

50+ min ago   (392+ words) Cornell researchers have received a $1.49 million grant to study whether artificial intelligence can help people assess evidence and remain open to changing their minds. The three-year project will examine both how beliefs change and the ethical questions raised when AI…...

6+ hour, 29+ min ago   (678+ words) Previously accepted models predicting changes in fundamental constants relied upon a simple relationship between energy and particle interactions. However, calculations now demonstrate this connection must instead follow a logarithmic pattern dictated by established principles of quantum field theory. This refinement…...

31+ min ago   (254+ words) The Times of India NEW DELHI: The southwest (summer) monsoon, which has so far reported a cumulative (June 1-Sept 14) rainfall deficit of over 14% this season, is likely to start withdrawing from west Rajasthan this weekend IMD predicted Monday that conditions…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (266+ words) Open Cosmos has already flown with SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Europe's Arianespace, and has agreements with launch providers in India and Japan. The Exploration Company disclosed a $450 million Series C in recent days. In Spain, PLD Space added 108 million euros,…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (241+ words) A teenager has set up an organisation to protect Welsh fossil heritage. Charlie Hulbert, 17, from Mountain Ash, has spent the past year building the Welsh Palaeo Survey Group. Charlie said the journey has been challenging, as he had to overcome…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago   (219+ words) Despite being researched for the last 50 years, spiders in Hong Kong are one of the most overlooked and understudied species groups in the city. That might strike some as surprising, given that Hong Kong is home to over 200 spider species…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago   (566+ words) Florida's Space Coast hosted a record-shattering 109 orbital rocket launches in 2025, surpassing all previous annual records. And this year, that record is not likely to be broken. This year's pace will fall short of the unprecedented cadence at Cape Canaveral Space…...