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How George Clinton’s Mothership landed onstage in 1976
NEWS | 06 November 2026
But on this night, none of them could compete with George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars—or, more to the point, with Clinton’s ride. A much smaller model ship flew over the audience’s heads first, buying the crew time to ready the full-size Mothership for its landing. The original Mothership stayed on the road until 1981, then went into retirement and, eventually, a junkyard. An early sketch for the Mothership stage show offers a glimpse of the production’s wildly original design. “It’s all still very much a practical mothership,” Bedrosian says, meaning a real, physical machine.

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The polar vortex is about to go haywire
NEWS | 06 November 2026
Something “unprecedented” is happening in the atmosphere: the Arctic polar vortex, a spinning mass of air high above the North Pole, is collapsing. Waves in the atmosphere known as “Rossby waves” can cause the polar vortex to wobble and weaken. During a big polar vortex disruption—what scientists call a “sudden stratospheric warming”—the vortex can drift, stretch, split into multiple swirls or change direction. Polar vortex disruptions normally occur deep into the winter, Cohen says, so a sudden stratospheric warming in November is unusual. “Where everything sets up is still in question.”Not all polar vortex disruptions look the same.

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The Super El Niño is already soaking the U.S. Expect more flooding to come
NEWS | 06 November 2026
These are scenes from the “Super El Niño”–fueled rain events that are now soaking parts of the U.S. “We are seeing the hydroclimate effects of a very strong El Niño event occurring now but with a boost from climate change,” Swain says. El Niño typically brings moisture-laden air to the desert Southwest in autumn. In that sense, these events are precisely what would be expected, given the strength of the current El Niño. El Niño conditions provide a favorable jet stream for these autumn storms, Swain says, but this year’s event is supercharged by a marine heat wave off the West Coast of Central and North America.

Current Events:
Do cats fart? An investigation into the mysteries of feline flatulence
NEWS | 06 November 2026
The incident sent me on a scientific quest: Why had I never heard my cat fart? In cats, the fart typically has two primary sources: swallowed air and gas produced by bacterial fermentation. In “monogastric” species—animals with a single-chambered stomach—such as cats, dogs and humans, most bacterial fermentation occurs in the colon, Cave says. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? “I don’t think anyone’s ever measured the exact quantity of cat farts in a scientific study,” Dougherty says.

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SPONSORED | 06 November 2026
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2026 election results show widespread opposition to AI data centers
NEWS | 06 November 2026
A sign protesting data center construction in Emporia, Kansas. Emporia was one of the jurisdictions that voted on a data center prohibition on Election Day. In Wells, Me., more than 80 percent of voters approved a retroactive 180-day moratorium on data center development. A $3-billion data center called Polaris Forge 2 is already under construction near the city. In the short term, investors got jittery on Wednesday, sending AI data center stocks tumbling .

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Inca children were given hallucinogens before they were sacrificed to the gods
NEWS | 06 November 2026
The ancient Inca sacrificed children who were drugged with cocaine, a powerful hallucinogen and, in some cases, alcohol, according to a new study in Antiquity. As they were prepared, the children were given an array of psychoactive plants. Cocaine may have been given to the children to help them deal with altitude sickness and fatigue as they climbed the mountains where the sacrifices took place. Historical records show the drink was given to the children in order to calm them during the final parts of the ceremony. “Five hundred years after these children were sacrificed during one of the most important Inca rituals, new technologies are allowing us to uncover details of their lives and Inca religious practices,” Socha said.

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How does mental fatigue begin in the brain?
NEWS | 06 November 2026
They found that glutamate builds up in parts of the brain when we perform challenging mental tasks. The work builds on past research that had hinted at glutamate’s role in mental fatigue. But experts say Xia and her colleagues’ work provides the strongest evidence yet of a link between glutamate and mental fatigue. The findings could help explain why mental fatigue feels unpleasant. Xia hopes the findings will one day lead to treatments for people who are especially prone to mental fatigue, such as those with depression and schizophrenia.

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Science advocates react to Democrats’ historic midterm rout: ‘It’s a new day in Washington’
NEWS | 06 November 2026
Now science advocates say they want answers for what has happened during the first two years of the Trump administration. “There’s huge opportunities for science, for democracy, for getting accountability for these attacks on science that we’ve seen. And the White House has pushed the country’s science funding to favor artificial intelligence and other technologies over other scientific fields, including medical research. She led Ohio’s public health system during the start of the COVID pandemic and was “very vocal about public health issues and concerns during her campaign,” Scofield says. “I think we have to understand that state and local public health departments rely heavily on federal funding.

This Just In:
How hackers are turning grocery store freezers into heaters
NEWS | 06 November 2026
An employee at a Stockholm supermarket clears out the store’s freezer on November 2, 2026, after a hack the night before rose the freezer’s temperature. In October attackers went after the refrigeration systems at hundreds of grocery stores in France. In the worst cases, freezers flipped from cooling food to heating it to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight. Each of those fixes costs money, though, and so does throwing out food worth millions. Grocery stores run on notoriously thin profit margins (1 to 3 percent, by most estimates), and there are only so many freezer catastrophes the industry can take.

Today:
The world’s biggest cities are sinking. Is yours one of them?
NEWS | 06 November 2026
Major cities across the world—including hotspots such as New Orleans, Mexico City, Jakarta and Rome—are sinking by up to several inches every year. Different factors can contribute to urban subsidence. But the biggest driver is usually water utilities, industries and other groups pumping out water from under the ground. In Jakarta, the sinking and flooding has become so severe that Indonesia is building a brand-new capital city on the island of Borneo. Once it happens, sinking is “cumulative and largely irreversible,” Wang says, but cities have successfully stopped continued subsidence before.

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Could SpaceX’s retirement of Falcon 9 spark a launch crisis?
NEWS | 06 November 2026
From NASA and the Pentagon to start-ups, universities and international organizations, many entities depend on SpaceX’s Falcon 9. That means more uncertainties, and potential delays and cost increases for U.S. space launches. In SpaceX’s early years, major launch contracts from NASA helped prop up the company, which at the time was struggling to attract customers while developing and deploying Falcon 9’s precursor, the Falcon 1. The Space Force has come to rely on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 (or its heftier cousin, the Falcon Heavy) for launches of sensitive national-security-related spacecraft, including those for the Golden Dome missile defense program. As SpaceX sunsets Falcon 9, some commercial customers are already scrambling to find new launch providers, Curlee says.

World:
How to tell if a voice recording is AI-generated
NEWS | 06 November 2026
If that sounds easy, it’s because it is, says Sarah Barrington, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies artificial intelligence voice cloning. “There are platforms online that will advertise as few as three seconds’ worth of someone’s voice to create a clone,” Barrington says. Voice cloning, she explains, went, “kind of overnight, from quite technical to immediately consumer-accessible.” In a demonstration in her lectures, for example, Barrington clones her own voice from a YouTube clip in a mere 90 seconds. Reuters reported in September that someone posing as a lawyer and using a cloned voice persuaded a large Italian private bank to wire around €95 million (about $105 million) abroad. Some companies that make AI audio tools, such as Google, hide an inaudible watermark in the created audio.

Current Events:
An exclusive conversation with the developer of REA, the viral AI reverse engineering tool
NEWS | 06 November 2026
His tool, Reverse Engineer Anything, or REA, lets artificial intelligence agents pull apart programs and reconstitute them to their users’ liking. His interest began with game decompilation, a corner of reverse engineering in which fans painstakingly rebuild the code of video games. Reverse engineering software involves running that translation backward, turning binary back into code a person can read in the process of decompilation. The kinds of reverse engineering he sees people doing with REA could have been done before, just never at this scale. In a reply on X, an OpenAI researcher called the block on reverse engineering “mostly accidental.”Morluto isn’t worried.

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SPONSORED | 06 November 2026
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