Science & Technology

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> Researchers develop machine-learning model that doubles weather forecasting accuracy two to six weeks out, a critical window for emergency planning (More) | Track how forecasting has improved over several decades (More, w/charts)

> Coral can fully recover from bleaching after brief contact with healthy coral clones, according to lab-controlled study (More) | Why do corals bleach? (More)

> Archaeologists unearth remains of Neanderthal likely killed with a wooden spear roughly 75,000 years ago—the oldest known evidence of such lethal violence among human ancestors (More, w/images)

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> Astronomers discover first known green star: a dead white dwarf that turned chartreuse by absorbing a rocky planet's sodium-rich debris, which filters out orange light (More) | White dwarfs 101 (More)

> Wearing headphones during surgery may reduce the risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting, new study finds; clinical trial involving 192 patients under general anesthesia shows a 32% decrease in the recovery complications (More)

> Cat owners who spend more time in close proximity to their pets experience more positive moods, linked to a hormonal connection in which higher feline oxytocin correlates with lower owner stress (More) | See a brief history of house cats (More)

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> Trump administration creates White House task force and National Institutes of Health division to advance women's health research (More) | Women globally spend 25% more of their lives in poor health or with disabilities than men (More)

> Apple announces Oct. 28 product launch event, where analysts expect the company to unveil its first touch-screen MacBook Pro (More) | iPhone Duo—Apple's first foldable phone—is back-ordered until late January (More)

> Fingerprint analysis suggests women and children helped make China's Terracotta Army sculptures, challenging the long-held assumption the work was done entirely by men (More) | Scroll for aerial view of the more than 8,000-soldier army (More)

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> Doctors develop AI tool that predicts cancer patients' survival odds from a single selfie; those who looked five or more years older than their actual age had a 21% higher risk of death over a four-year follow-up period (More)

> Scientists revive pig kidneys after up to one year in ultracold storage and successfully transplant them into test pigs, according to new research; breakthrough could enable long-term organ banking and expand transplant access (More)

> Marsquake—the Martian equivalent of an earthquake—originated beneath the largest canyon system in our solar system in 2021, suggesting ancient faults may still be shaping Mars' landscape (More) | See photo of Mars' Grand Canyon (More)