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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jennifer Ouellette

    Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer (opens the original)

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    With its premiere just two weeks away, Marvel Studios has dropped one last trailer for the limited series, VisionQuest, which will complete the trilogy begun with WandaVision and Agatha All Along. (Spoilers for WandaVision and Agatha All Along below.) As previously reported, Marvel’s streaming TV portfolio has kind of been all over the place: a handful of hits, a few misses, and a bunch of middling offerings. One standout was WandaVision, followed by an excellent sequel (of sorts), Agatha All Al

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Jennifer Ouellette

    What butterfly wings have in common with barbershop poles (opens the original)

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    Old-fashioned striped barbershop poles turn in place on a vertical axis, but humans typically perceive the stripes moving upward rather than turning with the pole. It’s a well-known visual illusion arising from processing biases in human vision. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, a similar effect could explain how butterflies often evade predatory birds: Their flight patterns and wing patterns combine to make it hard for predators to accurately gauge speed and direction. “

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jennifer Ouellette

    Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (opens the original)

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    The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s. In 2013, scholars discovered an anonymous report published in 1871 in Nature describing how a “very intense magnetic disturbance” disrupted rail travel in Exeter on the southern coast of England in October 1841. If accurate, this would be the earliest such account. However, ac

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Jennifer Ouellette

    We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece" (opens the original)

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    Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney has never been one to shy away from controversy. His latest feature, Musk, has stirred up plenty even before its release, drawing the ire of its subject, Elon Musk, and threats of a defamation lawsuit. After the film debuted two weeks ago at the Venice International Film Festival, rumors swirled that Universal Pictures was getting cold feet about theatrically releasing the film in international markets. Those rumors appear to be unfounded (at least

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Jennifer Ouellette

    A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it (opens the original)

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    Staff at the Lady Elliott Island Eco Resort off the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia are well acquainted with the shenanigans of a male bottlenose dolphin they’ve nicknamed Bubbles. Bubbles has been around since at least 2017 and regularly harasses local bigeye trevally, chasing a fish around and stressing it so much that the fish throws up what it has consumed. Bubbles then devours the regurgitated food. The dolphin’s unusual behavior is the focus of a new paper published in the journal

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