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Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: black holes, gas expulsion, high-res imaging

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The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jay Bennett | tags: james webb telescope, cosmic dawn center, red dots

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Google's new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for 'intelligent whole-body control' (engadget.com)

2026-07-30 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: google deepmind, gemini robotics, humanoid robots

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Carolina Parada | tags: gemini robotics, whole-body control, multimodal understanding

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Astronomers Spotted a Wandering Black Hole at the Edge of Its Galaxy. Then It Found a Snack (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: black hole, galaxy, astronomers

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Big Lots is closing stores again: See a list of doomed locations in the latest twist for the discount retail chain (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: big lots, variety wholesalers, retail stores

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It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel (wired.com)

2026-07-27 | by Teruyuki Hayakawa | tags: black holes, supermassive black hole, galaxy growth

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Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: black hole, physics, room decor

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Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Worse On Purpose | tags: amazon, whole foods, unionization

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Prior therapy defines mutation profiles in childhood cancer at relapse (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Layeghifard | tags: childhood cancer, whole-genome sequencing, mutect2

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Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce (futurism.com)

2026-07-20 | by Frank Landymore | tags: whole foods, taylor farms, iceberg lettuce

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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers How Black Holes Feed Themselves (slashdot.org)

2026-07-19 | by Posted | tags: james webb telescope, black holes, space exploration

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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32, pi-hole, dns filtering

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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-19 | by Zak Killian | tags: esp32, pi-hole, dns filtering

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A Missing Black Hole Was Found Hiding in a Giant Star Cluster. Astronomers Think There Could Be Thousands More (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: black, black holes, centauri

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Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: htc vive focus 3, smithsonian starstruck, black hole

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Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-01 | get Mini Universe Model Kit → | tags: gravastars, black holes, relativity

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Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | by Procopio | get Optical Analog Hawking Radiation Kit → | tags: hawking radiation, optical analogue, black hole

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Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-30 | get AI Website Design Tool → | tags: us web design system, national design studio, digital potholes

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Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-06-30 | by Danica Radovanović | get Tesla Coil Model Kit → | tags: nikola tesla, lightning, dam

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I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers – This One Survived (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | tags: keyboard covers, typing holes, durability

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The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-29 | get Ozone Monitoring Satellite → | tags: ozone hole, cfc, atmospheric monitoring

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Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Mixedbread Team | get Quantization Neural Network Kit → | tags: wholembed, silo, asymmetric quantization

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Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-29 | get Ozone Layer Monitoring Kit → | tags: ozone depletion, cfcs, mit

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I built a whole-home ad blocker with a $7 ESP32-S3 board - and it took just minutes (zdnet.com)

2026-06-29 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi Module → | tags: esp32-s3, raspberry pi, dns sinkhole

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How one US scientist is adapting to life abroad after DOGE cuts (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-29 | by Wells | get Dogecoin T-Shirt → | tags: noaa fisheries, doge, marine science

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Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland (futurism.com)

2026-06-28 | by Victor Tangermann | get Sinkhole Detection Kit → | tags: climate change, sinkholes, konya

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'Fingerprints' of Black Hole's Event Horizon Detected For First Time (slashdot.org)

2026-06-26 | get Black Hole Event Horizon Model → | tags: ligo, gravitational waves, black hole

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US funding uncertainties threaten to sink key global oceanography projects (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | by Witze | get Oceanography Research Kit → | tags: argo floats, ocean observatories initiative, woods hole oceanographic institution

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How long-term dietary cholesterol can slow down its own clearance by liver cells (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | get Cholesterol Management Guidebook → | tags: liver cells, dietary cholesterol, cholesterol clearance