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HAVANA — Cuban women cooking dinner in the dark with charcoal. Images of these scenes have become representative of the especially harsh period the country is going through at the moment, but they also highlight resourcefulness and resilience. “Blackouts are lasting more than 24 hours. Sometimes we get three hoursContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Republican leaders across the country are trying to limit the role teachers play in activism as part of a backlash against students protesting immigration enforcement. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced an investigation into three schoolContinue Reading

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Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently collaborated across academic disciplines to design and construct a solar-powered charging station. Positioned in a quiet campus courtyard, the station provides the MIT community with climate-friendly power for phones, laptops, and tablets. Its installation marked the “first time aContinue Reading

Fungi on International Space Station Show Surprising Metal Extraction Skills

As human space exploration pushes farther from Earth, the need for sustainable ways to obtain local resources is becoming increasingly urgent, as routine resupply missions grow impractical. Asteroids — some of them rich in valuable metals such as platinum-group elements — have emerged as especially promising targets. In a new experiment aboard the International SpaceContinue Reading

Webb Discovers Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen

New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy with sweeping gaseous ‘tentacles’ in a galaxy cluster at redshift of 1.156, meaning we’re seeing it as it was approximately 8.5 billion years ago. This Webb image shows the jellyfish galaxy COSMOS2020-635829; the dashed circles mark the four extraplanar sources that are identifiedContinue Reading

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world “urgently” needs global regulation of fast-evolving AI., NewsFeed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world “urgently” needs global regulation of fast-evolving AI, calling for an international oversight body. The “democratisation of AI is the only fair and safe path forward,” he said. PublishedContinue Reading