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🔭 The Largest Eye on Earth Is Rising Above the Atacama At an altitude of 3,046 metres on Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert, engineers are building the most powerful optical telescope ever attempted: ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT. Its primary mirror will span…

📊 The U-Curve of Happiness: Why Life Often Gets Better After 50 For decades, the “midlife crisis” was dismissed as little more than a cultural stereotype. But large-scale research suggests it reflects a real statistical pattern. Economist David Blanchflower (Dartmouth College)…

🧬 AI Discovers a Natural Peptide That Could Rival Ozempic Researchers at Stanford Medicine have used artificial intelligence to identify a naturally occurring human peptide that suppresses appetite and promotes weight loss in mice—while avoiding the major side effects commonly…

🤖 OpenAI Just Released Three Versions of GPT-5.6 — and the Most Important One May Not Be the Flagship On July 9, OpenAI released GPT-5.6 as a family of three models rather than a single flagship: • Sol — the most capable version, priced at $5 per million input tokens and $30…

🔭 NASA Discovers a “Wandering” Supermassive Black Hole Devouring a Star Far from Any Galactic Center Astronomers have observed something never before seen in optical light: a supermassive black hole tearing apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of its host…

🔭 Physicists Recreated a Black-Hole-Inspired Effect — in a Circuit With No Moving Parts More than 50 years ago, Roger Penrose proposed that rotational energy could be extracted from a spinning black hole. Yakov Zel’dovich later predicted a wave version of the effect: an object…