Science, Sports & Wildlife

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Space and Galaxy Research

• 🔥 China Astronaut Mission: China has launched three astronauts to the Tiangong Space Station for long-duration...

Kentucky's Moreno joins Duke's Blackwell and Florida's Chinyelu in receiving positive NBA Draft news this decision week. The update comes amid discussions on rule changes for international prospects.

LiDAR scans are exposing centuries-old earthworks and pre-Columbian settlements beneath the Amazon canopy, including over 10,000 hidden features across the region. These findings challenge prior assumptions about ancient Amazonian societies.

Several programs outside the top 25 are adding key pieces via the portal for 2026.

• Baylor leans on backcourt transfers Kayden Mingo and Brett Decker...

The NCAA Division I Cabinet discussed an age-based 5-year eligibility model for a likely June vote, replacing the current four seasons over five...

Synchronous fireflies (Photuris frontalis) create a fairy-tale display by flashing their lanterns in perfect rhythm for two weeks each year between...

Biotechnology is unlocking powerful new ways to study and protect wildlife.

• Genomic sequencing decodes animal DNA to guide conservation of...

Big Blue Brain is a prototype AI research hub that pulls recruiting, transfer portal, stats, media clips, and March Madness data into one searchable...

A routine sea ice study aboard the Polarstern icebreaker accidentally revealed a 426-foot rock island in the Weddell Sea, previously charted only as a vague "danger zone." Less than 25% of the region is mapped, highlighting major polar data gaps.

China launched three astronauts to study how extended time in orbit affects the human body, with one set to spend over a year on the Tiangong Space Station. The goal is enabling future moon and Mars missions.

The Milky Way devoured a dwarf galaxy about 10 billion years ago, with its remnants now identified as an unusual collection of stars from Gaia telescope data.

New evidence shows life was producing oxygen 600 million years before the Great Oxidation Event. This discovery rewrites the timeline of Earth's early atmosphere and the rise of life.

NCAA Basketball Developments

• International Player Rules: New NCAA rulings on pro compensation will bar players from high-level overseas leagues...

• Tournament expands to 76 teams with a 12-game play-in round, preserving roughly the same proportion of D1 schools qualifying as in 1985
• New...

Recent discoveries—from a 22-million-year-old Panamanian mangrove forest to potential post-extinction dinosaurs—highlight a fresh wave of species...

Amazon Bio Discovery on AWS is slashing antibody design from nearly a year to just weeks by linking agentic AI models with automated lab testing, opening advanced pharma research to teams without coding expertise.

NCAA Basketball Recruiting Impact

• 🔥 Eligibility Rule Changes: A new NCAA report indicates top international prospects could be ruled ineligible...

A new video examines how foundation models are being adapted for embodied robotics and physical tasks, drawing on recent surveys and studies of robot policy learning, vision-language manipulation, dexterous skills, and task planning.