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Webb has found evidence of planet-shattering collisions in young planetary systems. These impacts may not be rare accidents but part of how planets grow, rearrange their orbits, and sometimes destroy each other. The same collisions that build worlds can also erase them, leaving debris as the only visible trace.

Planetary Systems Are Built by Destruction

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Black holes slowly lose mass through Hawking radiation, shrinking their event horizons as they evaporate. Yet the shrinking horizon does not simply expose what lies inside. In the standard picture, the horizon persists until the black hole disappears, while alternatives such as Planck stars or fuzzballs still shrink with it. We have never observed this final stage.

Evaporation Does Not Reveal a Black Hole’s Interior

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Divers recovered the Britannic’s bell, navigation lamp, bath tiles and personal items from 120 meters below the Aegean, more than a century after the ship sank in World War I.

The mix of luxury fittings and ordinary passenger objects turns the wreck from a famous name into a record of daily life aboard a ship lost in minutes. Some artifacts could not be recovered because the wreck is deteriorating.

A Century Beneath the Aegean

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Oklahoma’s buried Ames crater was long dated to about 467 million years ago, but zircon crystals now place the impact near 370 million years ago, around the time of a major marine extinction. That removes Ames from the cluster used to support an ancient asteroid-belt event and puts it into a different extinction-era timeline. The impact’s role in that extinction remains unproven.

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A 3,000-year-old Indigenous man from Ecuador has had his face digitally reconstructed from the Punin-2 skull and shown to people who may be his descendants. The reconstruction turns a skull once linked to claims of Oceanic or archaic ancestry into a recognizable ancestor, while local knowledge helped determine details such as his hairstyle. The bones alone could not provide the whole face.

When Bones Become a Face

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New simulations suggest the outer planets could be thrown into chaos about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf, far earlier than previous estimates. The difference comes from treating the Sun’s mass loss as random bursts rather than a smooth process. The system’s apparent stability depends on how the Sun dies.

A Solar System Shaken Apart

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Scientists have stored the entire human genome on a tiny 5D glass crystal, with glass capable of preserving data for thousands of years without energy. That shifts archival storage from something that must be repeatedly copied to something closer to a permanent physical record. The tradeoff is that glass is built for data you rarely need to access or change.

Glass Could Make Digital Archives Permanent

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A giant illegal balloon over São Paulo, reportedly more than 50 meters tall and carrying fireworks, broke apart in midair. What makes the footage more than a spectacular failure is the lack of control built into the object itself. Once released, a balloon carrying fire and explosives has no pilot to correct its path. The same spectacle can become a falling hazard over a city.

A Balloon With No Way Back

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Astronomers can now watch two giant planets reshape the disk that is still feeding them around WISPIT 2, about 437 light-years away. WISPIT 2b has carved a gas gap while continuing to accrete material, while WISPIT 2c has opened a cavity. For once, planet formation is visible not as a finished system, but as an ongoing process.

Watching Planets Grow in Real Time

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Earth and Mars formed from the same young Solar System, but their growth followed sharply different paths. The new model finds Earth got at least 75% of its mass from pebble-grown protoplanets, while Mars got about 73% from planetesimals. Their present chemistry preserves that split, although the exact percentages depend on assumptions about the original building blocks.

Different Roads to Two Planets

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Tennessee’s prison chief Frank Strada resigned after a failed lethal injection attempt on Christa Pike, who survived two doses. It was the state’s second botched execution this year, after Tony Carruthers’ execution was halted in May following more than an hour of failed IV attempts. Strada had also overseen difficult executions in Arizona, putting his departure in a wider pattern of problems with lethal injection.

Tennessee’s execution system keeps failing at the point of the needle.

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David Grusch says he was briefed on alleged crashes involving gray and reptilian beings and claims at least a dozen craft may have been involved in apparent conflicts. The remarkable shift is how specific these claims have become while still resting on testimony, files and footage he says he did not personally verify. That gap remains central.

UFO Claims Get More Specific, Not More Proven

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In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. was convicted in a one-day trial and executed in South Carolina just 53 days later. Seventy years later, a judge vacated his conviction after finding fundamental due process violations. The case shows how quickly a death sentence could become irreversible when basic safeguards failed, leaving no chance to correct the verdict before Stinney was killed.

George Stinney Jr.'s Conviction Vacated

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Kurikoma Komaru has entered an indefinite hiatus after Aogiri High School said the decision followed discussions with her and was made by management. The timing is striking: with nearly 500,000 subscribers, she was expanding into a KADOKAWA novel while her VTuber career was still growing. The reason remains undisclosed because it involves contractual matters.

A Sudden Pause at a Career High Point

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Tyson Fury plans to ask Donald Trump to walk him to the ring for his December 11 fight with Anthony Joshua in Cardiff. Fury’s choice turns the ring walk into an extension of a relationship that has already crossed boxing, politics and the White House. Trump’s role is far from guaranteed, though, with Fury admitting the president may not be available.

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Cindy Tamez, her partner and three children were found dead in Montemorelos, Mexico, with authorities investigating the case as a murder-suicide. The deaths unfolded across two locations, while a firearm and security footage became key evidence in reconstructing the sequence. The case shows how one investigation can shift from a family tragedy to a suspected crime scene, but the full sequence remains under investigation.

Cindy Tamez Family Deaths

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VERTEX FORCE is now streaming Episode 1 on Crunchyroll, marking the debut of the original anime outside Japan. The series starts with a family hiding the secret power of “Engines” as mysterious enemies appear in Okinawa, giving its sci-fi setup a personal center from the first episode. Its worldwide release excludes Japan, China and Korea.

VERTEX FORCE Begins

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Japan has approved the world’s first iPS cell-based therapies, using reprogrammed cells to create heart muscle and neural cells for severe heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. The shift is from using medicine to manage damaged tissue toward replacing some of the cells that were lost. But both therapies received conditional, time-limited approval, with further evidence still required.

Japan Moves Stem Cells Into Treatment

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A vehicle carrying Actinium-225 for medical treatment was robbed in Greater São Paulo days before the election. The van was later found, but the radioactive cargo was still missing, turning a routine medical shipment into a public safety problem. The material is considered safe while sealed, but opening the package could expose people to radiation.

Missing radioactive cargo raises a different kind of risk

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Brazil’s former defense minister Aldo Rebelo is urging the U.S. to release records on the 1996 Varginha incident, where witnesses reported a red-eyed creature and alleged military involvement.

Three decades later, the story has shifted from eyewitness claims to a fight over what governments actually documented. No public U.S. records have confirmed American involvement.

Varginha Is Still a Records Story