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Lenovo Reveals First Images of Googlebook Laptop Running New Google Operating System

The Lenovo Googlebook 15 features a 15.6-inch screen, a dedicated Gemini AI key, and native access to Android apps without downloading them separately.

Aug 3, 2026

Slugs, Beetles and Crabs Spread Seeds Through Forests More Than Scientists Knew

A University of Hong Kong review of 43 studies found at least 51 invertebrate species dispersing seeds from 186 plant types across four continents.

Aug 3, 2026

UC Berkeley Microscope Captures 25.2 Billion Pixels Per Second at Micron Scale

A new computational microscope uses 48 camera sensors on a credit-card-sized circuit board to image live organisms across five square centimeters at 120 frames per second.

Aug 3, 2026

Study Finds Most Americans Support Nonviolent Measures at Southern Border

A UCL-led experiment involving nearly 2,000 U.S. participants found that support for violent enforcement rose only when migrants were perceived as a direct threat to public order.

Aug 3, 2026

Mindfulness Meditation May Help People Wait for Larger Future Rewards

A six-study research project found that brief meditation sessions slowed people's sense of time passing, making future rewards feel less costly to wait for.

Aug 3, 2026

Sperm Cells Cooperate in Groups Across Hundreds of Arthropod Species

A new study in Nature Communications finds that sperm conjugation, where cells bind together to improve fertilization, evolved repeatedly over hundreds of millions of years and was present in the ancestor of all insects.

Aug 2, 2026

Caring for Babies Rewires the Brain Even Without Pregnancy

Columbia University neuroscientist Bianca Jones Marlin finds that exposure to infants triggers brain changes nearly identical to those in biological mothers.

Aug 2, 2026

Indigenous Territory in Brazil Holds Steady as Surrounding Savanna Is Converted

A study tracking land use from 1985 to 2024 found the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Territory in Mato Grosso has remained almost entirely unchanged while neighboring areas turned to soy and pasture.

Aug 2, 2026

Hubble Data Shows Andromeda Galaxy Steadily Slowing Star Production

A new analysis covering around 200 million stars found that Andromeda's star formation rate has dropped to one-fifth of a solar mass per year today.

Aug 2, 2026

DESI Telescope Side Project Finds Disintegrated Exoplanet Chemical Signatures

Astronomers used gaps in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's main survey to study 12 metal-enriched white dwarf stars in the Arizona desert.

Aug 2, 2026

Carnegie Mellon Researcher Says Nostalgia Alone Does Not Explain Retro Pizza Hut Appeal

A Pennsylvania Pizza Hut with faded 1990s murals of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has become a case study in how people form emotional attachments to places and objects.

Aug 1, 2026

Malaria Parasite Uses Molecular Tether to Build Daughter Cells

Two new studies from Heidelberg University and Harvard Medical School reveal how the parasite controls its unusual multiplication process inside infected blood cells.

Aug 1, 2026