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Uranus may have more in common with Earth than we thought, 40-year-old Voyager 2 probe data shows

December 11, 2025
The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant’s radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to what can drive geomagnetic storms on Earth. This realization, resulting from placing old data from Voyager 2 under new scrutiny, could help explain several puzzling aspects of Uranus’s magnetic…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages

December 11, 2025
Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on participating publications’ Google News pages as part of a new pilot program, the search giant announced on Wednesday. News publishers participating in the pilot program include Der Spiegel, El País, Folha, Infobae, Kompas, The Guardian, The Times of India, The Washington Examiner, and The Washington Post, among others. The purpose of the…
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NewsPhotography

This photo series documenting children's dangerous school journeys is a worthy awards winner

December 11, 2025
For photographers navigating the challenging world of long-form documentary work, a new award has emerged with both serious clout and a meaningful purpose. British photographer Laura Pannack has won the inaugural Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence, securing £5,000 ($6,700) toward completing her project and a book deal with GOST Books. The award, organized alongside the long-established Ian Parry…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

QuantumScape (QS) continues to scale up solid-state cell production, a key goal for 2025

December 11, 2025
Solid-state battery developer QuantumScape is approaching the end of 2025 with all of its key goals achieved. The latest development is the installation of key equipment to enable higher-volume QSE-5 cell production – the foundation for QuantumScape’s scaled solid-state battery manufacturing. I admittedly always love when a progress update from QuantumScape ($QS) comes across my computer…
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