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The Hubble Tension Is Becoming a Hubble Crisis

By Scientific American | | 4/2/2025 9:00 AM

A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts increasingly vexed ... Read full Story

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Watch this humanoid robot perform a side flip for the first time

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/2/2025 7:30 AM

Unitree's G1 demonstrates a new level of robotic agility with a complex movement following an AI software update. ... Read full Story

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Psychology’s Groupthink Helps Explain the Signal Chat Fiasco

By Scientific American | | 4/2/2025 7:30 AM

At the heart of the Trump administration’s Signal scandal lies the familiar psychological pitfall of groupthink ... Read full Story

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Scientists drilled into Belize's Great Blue Hole and discovered a worrying trend

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/2/2025 6:10 AM

Tropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great Blue Hole reveals, with a massive spike in the past two decades. ... Read full Story

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Diagnostic dilemma: A man's deadly infection was triggered by a probiotic supplement

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/2/2025 6:00 AM

A man with a complex medical history ended up with a rare bacterial infection after taking probiotics in the hospital. ... Read full Story

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What Is ‘Squirting’? The Science behind the Controversial Phenomenon Explained

By Scientific American | | 4/2/2025 6:00 AM

A mysterious and often debated aspect of human sexuality colloquially known as “squirting” sparks controversy. This episode explores what research reveals. ... Read full Story

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NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purge

By Scientific American | | 4/1/2025 6:15 PM

The Trump Administration has fired four leaders and thousands of employees at the National Institutes of Health in "one of the darkest days" ... Read full Story

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Ancient Egypt: History, dynasties, religion and writing

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 5:34 PM

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more. ... Read full Story

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3-year-old picks up 'beautiful stone,' discovers 3,800-year-old scarab amulet in Israel

By LIVE SCIENCE | lgeggel@livescience.com (Laura Geggel) | 4/1/2025 5:12 PM

A 3-year-old girl in Israel found an ancient Canaanite amulet shaped like a scarab while she was out walking with her family. ... Read full Story

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New state of matter, dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' could lead to big advances in quantum computing

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 5:08 PM

U.S. government scientists have developed a new phase of matter dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' which unites opposing electron spins in a unique magnet. ... Read full Story

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SpaceX’s Fram2 Mission Sends Four Private Astronauts into Polar Orbit

By Scientific American | | 4/1/2025 5:00 PM

The privately funded Fram2 mission is the first ever to take astronauts into polar orbit—and the latest sign of a “new normal” for human spaceflight ... Read full Story

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Watch eerie 'UFOs' and a solar 'cyclone' take shape in stunning new ESA video of the sun

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 1:31 PM

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on our sun. ... Read full Story

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Black holes can destroy planets — but they can also lead us to thriving alien worlds. Here's how.

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 1:17 PM

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating. ... Read full Story

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Bears: Facts about the furry omnivores that live in many parts of the world

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 12:55 PM

Discover interesting facts about the different types of bears and learn why not all bears hibernate. ... Read full Story

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Trump Administration Cancels NIH Scientific Integrity Policy

By Scientific American | | 4/1/2025 12:30 PM

The National Institutes of Health said it pulled the policy because of language on diversity and inclusion, in line with directives from the Trump administration ... Read full Story

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The US is squandering the one resource it needs to win the AI race with China — human intelligence

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 12:27 PM

The release of DeepSeek was a reminder that the U.S. is not the assured frontrunner of AI development. As the race between China and the U.S. intensifies, is America inadvertently giving it's biggest rival a huge leg up? ... Read full Story

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Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' is not a masterpiece when it comes to flow physics, researchers say

By phys.org | | 4/1/2025 12:08 PM

The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is not a masterpiece of flow physics—despite recent attention to its captivating swirls, according to researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Washington. ... Read full Story

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Lava bursts through Grindavík's defense barriers as new volcanic eruption begins on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula

By LIVE SCIENCE | pandora.dewan@futurenet.com (Pandora Dewan) | 4/1/2025 10:44 AM

Lava bursts through Grindavík's defense barriers as new volcanic eruption begins on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula ... Read full Story

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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space

By LIVE SCIENCE | | 4/1/2025 9:50 AM

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. ... Read full Story

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'We didn't expect to find such a beautiful, thriving ecosystem': Hidden world of life discovered beneath Antarctic iceberg

By LIVE SCIENCE | ben.turner@futurenet.com (Ben Turner) | 4/1/2025 9:17 AM

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for centuries. ... Read full Story

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View Photos of the Genesis X Gran Coupe and Gran Convertible Concepts

by Car and Drive | Apr 02 2025

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13 Major Hair Transformations Celebrities Still Regret

by The List | Mar 03 2025

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Three sci-fi visions of alternate worlds

by BookPage | Apr 03 2025

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Parking reform offers many benefits for CT communities

by CT Mirror | Apr 03 2025

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Star Sightings: Doechii Performs in a Denim Outfit in Florida, Edgar Ramirez Gets Pampered Before the Oscars

by ET Online | Mar 31 2025

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The stock market is riding an oversold rally for now. Here’s when it stalls out.

by MarketWatch.com | Mar 20 2025

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Giants benching of QB Daniel Jones spotlights NFL-wide issue

by ESNY | Nov 18 2024

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Jenna Ortega debuts major transformation amid red carpet appearance

by Hello! Magazine | Apr 03 2025

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After-hours stocks pries slide after Trump's announces worldwide tariffs

by upi.com | Apr 02 2025

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Man does 10,001 pull-ups in 24 hours to reclaim world record

by United Press International, Inc. | Apr 02 2025

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‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ star Ellie Kemper wants $7.49M for her NYC home in a glam Art Deco edifice

by NY Post | Apr 02 2025

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What do we know about the brothers and sisters of Jesus?

by Christian Post | Oct 20 2024

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Triassic amphibians the size of alligators perished in mass die-off in Wyoming, puzzling 'bone bed' reveals

by LIVE SCIENCE | Apr 02 2025

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Sony’s Affordable Soundbar Promises True Dolby Atmos Audio for Less

by Gear Patrol | Apr 02 2025

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Amazon-Starlink space race heats up as Kuiper gears up for first launch on April 9

by Interesting Engineering | Apr 02 2025

Word of the Day

snark

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 3, 2025 is:

snark • \SNAHRK\ • noun

Snark is an informal word that refers to an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.

// The stand-up comedian’s set was full of snark about current events, which had the audience rolling in the aisles.

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Examples:

“With snark and whimsy, [Zelda] Williams and the screenwriter Diablo Cody … put a playfully macabre spin on the Frankenstein legend that doubles as a subversive exploration of the universal desire to be loved and understood.” — Erik Piepenburg, The New York Times, 16 Aug. 2024

Did you know?

Credit for snark is often given to Lewis Carroll, on the basis of his having written a poem with this word in the title, back in the 1870s. The modern snark, however, is a back-formation (“a word formed by subtraction of a real or supposed affix from an already existing longer word”), a class of words that includes burgle and back-stab. It comes from taking the longer word snarky and subtracting the -y. Snarky emerged in English around the turn of the 20th century, initially with the meaning of “snappish, crotchety,” and then later took on the sense of “sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner.” The noun snark is a much more recent addition to the language, arising in the 1990s. It was preceded by the verb snark, “to make an irreverent or sarcastic comment, to say something snarky,” which dates to the late 1980s.

The Hubble Tension Is Becoming a Hubble Crisis

Watch this humanoid robot perform a side flip for the first time

Psychology’s Groupthink Helps Explain the Signal Chat Fiasco

Scientists drilled into Belize's Great Blue Hole and discovered a worrying trend

Diagnostic dilemma: A man's deadly infection was triggered by a probiotic supplement

What Is ‘Squirting’? The Science behind the Controversial Phenomenon Explained

NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purge

Ancient Egypt: History, dynasties, religion and writing

3-year-old picks up 'beautiful stone,' discovers 3,800-year-old scarab amulet in Israel

New state of matter, dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' could lead to big advances in quantum computing

SpaceX’s Fram2 Mission Sends Four Private Astronauts into Polar Orbit

Watch eerie 'UFOs' and a solar 'cyclone' take shape in stunning new ESA video of the sun

Black holes can destroy planets — but they can also lead us to thriving alien worlds. Here's how.

Bears: Facts about the furry omnivores that live in many parts of the world

Trump Administration Cancels NIH Scientific Integrity Policy

The US is squandering the one resource it needs to win the AI race with China — human intelligence

Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' is not a masterpiece when it comes to flow physics, researchers say

Lava bursts through Grindavík's defense barriers as new volcanic eruption begins on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula

Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space

'We didn't expect to find such a beautiful, thriving ecosystem': Hidden world of life discovered beneath Antarctic iceberg

View Photos of the Genesis X Gran Coupe and Gran Convertible Concepts

13 Major Hair Transformations Celebrities Still Regret

Three sci-fi visions of alternate worlds

Parking reform offers many benefits for CT communities

Star Sightings: Doechii Performs in a Denim Outfit in Florida, Edgar Ramirez Gets Pampered Before the Oscars

The stock market is riding an oversold rally for now. Here’s when it stalls out.

Giants benching of QB Daniel Jones spotlights NFL-wide issue

Jenna Ortega debuts major transformation amid red carpet appearance

After-hours stocks pries slide after Trump's announces worldwide tariffs

Man does 10,001 pull-ups in 24 hours to reclaim world record

‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ star Ellie Kemper wants $7.49M for her NYC home in a glam Art Deco edifice

What do we know about the brothers and sisters of Jesus?

Triassic amphibians the size of alligators perished in mass die-off in Wyoming, puzzling 'bone bed' reveals

Sony’s Affordable Soundbar Promises True Dolby Atmos Audio for Less

Amazon-Starlink space race heats up as Kuiper gears up for first launch on April 9

Word of the Day

10 Odd & Fun

1.Man does 10,001 pull-ups in 24 hours to reclaim world record

2.D.C. man's $1M lottery win was predicted by a dream

3.Look: Suspected serval captured wandering loose in Ohio

4.Look: One fugitive otter captured in Wisconsin, one still missing

5.Watch: Women have been exchanging the same birthday card for 81 years

6.Wild turkeys chase mail carrier out of Massachusetts neighborhood

7.Watch: $2.5M lottery ticket left in pocket of jacket donated to charity

8.April Fools' 2025: 'Silent' Crunch bar, ranch-flavored Olipop

9.Small dog plucked out of 'ruff waters' of New York's East River

10.Gas station trip earns Florida woman $5M lottery jackpot