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SpacePhotos of the 2024 Aurora Over Germany Trace Its Red and Green Glow to One Cause
Photographs taken over Braunschweig and Göttingen, Germany, during the geomagnetic superstorm of May 10 and 11, 2024, show bright rays running continuously from the high red aurora into the green…
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Time Under Suspicion: From a Thought Experiment to an Optical Clock
In everyday life, time has an impeccable reputation. When asked, “What time is it?” we usually answer confidently after glancing at our watches. It’s harder to understand what “now” means when we’re…
By Diana Brinker
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A Glacial Flood Nobody Recorded, Found in the Satellite Archive
In September 2020 a mass of rock and ice broke off a headwall in the Warwan valley of Jammu and Kashmir, ran down a glacier, and landed in the small lake at its foot. The lake emptied. Water and…
By Anna Werner
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A Way to Check Whether an AI Still Holds What It Was Told to Forget
Ask a language model something it has been made to forget and it may well refuse to answer. The refusal proves very little. A model can be trained to withhold an answer while the knowledge behind it…
By Wilkens Etienne
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A Human Cell Protein Slows Ebola Down, and the Virus Has Two Ways to Push It Aside
When a virus spends effort removing something from a cell, the thing it removes is usually worth having. That is the logic behind a screen run in Tübingen and published Nov. 4, 2026, in The EMBO…
By Olga Schmidt
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Xanxerê, Brazil
Tornado Confirmed in Rio Grande Do Sul as Brazil's Storm Toll Spreads
Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state confirmed one tornado affecting three municipalities on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, as neighboring Santa Catarina's toll from the same week's storms rose to a second…
- Masumbwe, Tanzania
M5.1 Earthquake Strikes Near Masumbwe, Tanzania
As of 16:45 UTC on Nov. 5, 2026, the U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck 19 kilometers northwest of Masumbwe, Tanzania, at 12:22 p.m. local time (09:22 UTC) on Nov. 5, 2026,…
- Hérault, Gard, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, France
Orange Rain-Flood Vigilance Issued for Hérault, Gard and Corsica
Météo-France, the French national weather service, placed the departments of Hérault, Gard, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud under orange rain-flood vigilance beginning 6 a.m. local time on Thursday,…
- Rio Negrinho, Brazil
Brazil's Santa Catarina Orders Statewide School Closures After Deadly Storms
A storm-related death was confirmed in Rio Negrinho, in Brazil's Santa Catarina state, as severe storms, strong winds and tornadoes left damage in 98 municipalities and pushed 23 cities to declare a…
- Villa El Salvador, Peru
Sewer Collapse Floods Homes in Villa El Salvador, Peru
Heavy rain collapsed the sewer system in Villa El Salvador's Sector 1, Group 1, in southern Lima, Peru, late Wednesday night, Nov. 4, 2026, local time, flooding more than 70 homes with sewage,…
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Dr. Stephen Volz, Former NASA and NOAA Scientist, on What Satellites Reveal About Our Changing Planet
Dr. Stephen Volz helped build America's satellite infrastructure. In a conversation with ALLATRA, he explains what the data is telling us about our planet and our future. When you check the weather…
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How Anyons Help Locate Critical Points
When heated, a magnet can gradually lose its magnetization until it disappears. This is an example of a continuous phase transition: the quantity used to distinguish between two states of matter…
By Igor Danilov
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Did the LZ Experiment Find Dark Matter and Why Is the Answer Far More Complicated Than a Simple “Yes” or “No”?
On September 1, 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration reported an unusual event that its underground detector had recorded on June 16, 2023. The detector is designed to search for WIMPs:…
By Igor Danilov
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How Shark Skin Saves Airlines Millions of Dollars and Reduces CO2 Emissions
For billions of years, the natural world has acted as a silent engineer. It methodically discarded ineffective solutions and refined the good ones. As a result, these mechanisms became so effective…
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A Spanish Telescope Read a Dying Comet's Chemistry Before the Sun Destroyed It
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A Benchmark Scored a Reply That Never Answered the Question as Correct
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