With surveying capabilities more than 1,000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope, Roman will capture fundamentally different scientific observations that can’t be done with either Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2026
Those observations will inform an aspirational future mission — the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which aims to view Earth-like planets more than 1 billion times dimmer than their host stars.
Garden Media researches global consumer trends to predict what will be coming up in gardening, landscape design, and green living, and its 2027 Garden Trends Report just dropped.
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Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
3 Sep. 2026
Bernard Koch, an assistant sociology professor at the University of Chicago who researches artificial intelligence, said worries about AI’s impact on people's lives are probably fueling the uproar over data centers and Flock cameras.
Determining that involves combining a deep understanding of the land’s features, as well as tracking possible triggers such as earthquake, says Ben Orlove, an anthropologist who studies climate risks at Columbia University.
Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, who studies cases involving vaccine disputes, told me that judges sometimes favor the pro-vaccine parent, but not always.
In Sarah Pekkanen’s new thriller, The Women in White, a young health-care aide probes how four female participants in a 1964 parapsychology experiment suddenly vanished.
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The Week US,
TheWeek,
20 Aug. 2026
The victory comes as Parliament’s standards watchdog probes Farage’s undeclared multimillion-dollar crypto donation and his finances with controversial ally George Cottrell, scrutiny that could yet force him from office.
In 2021, researchers analyzing EPA compliance data found that 17 of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities had systems the agency classifies as serious violators.
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Ivis García,
The Conversation,
20 Aug. 2026
Additionally, the state of Illinois recently passed a bill, SB3484, that classifies and regulates micromobility devices such as e-scooters.
For instance, InSAR finds where something is changing, laser scanning shows how a structure is deforming, and GPR investigates what may be happening underneath it.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2026
The nonprofit institute, based in Berkeley, California, investigates harmful chemicals.
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