WWII submarine returns to Michigan after extensive restoration
A piece of World War II naval history has officially returned home to Muskegon, Michigan, looking like a brand new ship. On October 31, the USS Silversides arrived back at…
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Oldest recordings of Louisiana Creole discovered in Indiana archive
A trailblazing Black linguist’s historical audio recordings have been rediscovered more than 90 years after his vital fieldwork. Originally etched onto aluminum discs, Lorenzo Dow Turner’s recordings are now the…
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ movie prop may sell for over $1 million
Now is your chance to own as many pieces of film history as your bank account will allow. Numerous items from filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive are hitting the auction…
UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?
In 2023, malware tracked as BlackLotus became the first publicly documented in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully updated Windows 11 systems. With the industry-wide chain-of-trust mechanism…
The Pacific’s Busy Storm Season
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Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best…
Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don’t agree
It’s widely acknowledged that it’s nearly impossible to publish negative results in scientific journals. “We didn’t see anything” is a much harder sell than finding that a hypothesis is clearly…
A NASA telescope will likely plummet to Earth on Wednesday
A revolutionary NASA telescope is making its way back to Earth—but will not survive the journey. The United States Space Force has honed its estimate for the Neil Gehreis Swift…
The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money
The world is set to miss its 2030 conservation goals as finance and action have fallen short, leaders recognized at a UN biodiversity summit in Armenia’s capital, where they agreed…
Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
Flying across several time zones often causes jet lag, a feeling when the body insists it’s the middle of the night while the clock says it’s lunchtime. Now it turns…