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Astronomers use the Webb telescope to improve our map of the cosmic web (engadget.com)

2026-05-11 | by Anna Washenko | get Webb Telescope Star Map → | tags: james webb space telescope, cosmic web, dark matter

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Surfel-based global illumination on the web (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get WebGL Surfel Rendering Kit → | tags: webgpu, surfels, global illumination

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Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations (slashdot.org)

2026-05-09 | get Fiber Optic Eavesdropping Kit → | tags: fiber optic cables, distributed acoustic sensing, european geosciences union

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Vet Worker in Los Angeles Caught H5N1 Bird Flu From Infected Cat (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-08 | get Bird Flu Prevention Kit → | tags: h5n1, los angeles, bird flu

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Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Shea Alexander | get Kids' Craft Tool Set → | tags: blacksmith, leather worker, woodworker

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Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-01 | tags: scorpions, smithsonian, university of queensland

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Android Auto doesn’t let you dismiss alarms, but Google is working on a solution (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-30 | get Android Auto Alarm Blocker → | tags: android auto, google, alarm dismiss

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Transmission Hardware Corona Performance and HVDC Submarine Cable EM Fields (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-04-30 | get EMF Shielding Tape → | tags: corona performance, hvdc cables, submarine cables

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Why the hardest part of building the future is letting go of the past (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-29 | get Smartphone Screen Repair Kit → | tags: america, james watt, industrial revolution

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Charge-dependent spectral softenings of primary cosmic rays below the knee (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-29 | by Author Notes | get Cosmic Ray Detector Kit → | tags: cosmic rays, pamela, atic-2

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Cytoplasmic competition between separate parental pronuclei in zygotes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-29 | by Kyogoku | tags: cytoplasmic competition, parental pronuclei, zygotes

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Blaster Beam (Musical Instrument) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | get Blaster Beam Steel String → | tags: blaster beam, star trek, jerry goldsmith

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Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-27 | get GPU Monitoring Tool → | tags: utilyze, nvidia-smi, nvtop

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Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by Sam Jarman | get IceCube Neutrino Observatory → | tags: antarctic ice, askaryan radio array, cosmic rays

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HEALPix (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | get HEALPix Software Package → | tags: healpix, cosmic microwave background, krzysztof górski

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Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Blender Foundation | tags: cosmology, geometry nodes, blender

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(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Blender Foundation | get Blender Geometry Nodes Guide → | tags: blender, geometry nodes, cosmology

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‘Saros’ Is a Colorfully Aggressive Descent Into Roguelike Madness (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-24 | get Saros Roguelike Board Game → | tags: saros, housemarque, playstation 5

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Electrostatics and High Voltage Links (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get High Voltage Insulation Tester → | tags: electrostatics, high voltage, electrical engineering

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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was (futurism.com)

2026-04-24 | by Frank Landymore | get Deep-sea exploration flashlight → | tags: noaa, smithsonian, deep-sea

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Cosmic-ray detection heralds era of mega-observatories for neutrinos (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-24 | get Neutrino Detection Kit → | tags: cosmic rays, mega-observatories, neutrinos

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Box to save memory in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-23 | get Memory Management Rust Book → | tags: rust, serde, aws-sdk-rust

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Box to Save Memory in Rust (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-23 | get Rust Memory Management Book → | tags: rust, serde, aws-sdk-rust

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iPhone 18 Pro’s new color will be a mix of these three, says leaker (9to5mac.com)

2026-04-22 | by Ryan Christoffel | get iPhone 18 Pro Color Case → | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple, cosmic orange

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Congress moves to strip the DoC of chip-export discretion with the MATCH Act — DUV lithography machines among those targeted in chipmaking tool crackdown (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-22 | by Luke James | get ASML Lithography Machine → | tags: duv lithography, asml, nikon

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Building an Interregional Transmission Overlay for a Resilient U.S. Grid (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-04-22 | get Smart Grid Power Strip → | tags: us grid, transmission overlay, resilient infrastructure

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Author Correction: Robust cytoplasmic partitioning by solving a cytoskeletal instability (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Rinaldin | get Cytoskeleton Stabilizer Kit → | tags: cytoplasmic partitioning, cytoskeletal instability, creative commons

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Volcanoes Send Tiny Warning Signals Before Eruptions. These Scientists Are Decoding Them (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get Seismograph for Volcano Monitoring → | tags: volcanoes, jerk, french volcano

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M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get Seismic Emergency Kit → | tags: m 7.4 earthquake, miyako, japan

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Voyager 1 gets emergency instrument shutdown to solve escalating power crisis and give it ‘about a year of breathing room’ — interstellar spacecraft's nuclear power source is dying, leading to intensifying countermeasures (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-20 | by Jowi Morales | get Voyager 1 Solar Power Kit → | tags: voyager 1, jet propulsion laboratory, radioisotope thermoelectric generator