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Your GPS Lies in Cities. Scientists Finally Fixed It

Chicago SkyscrapersScientists have found a way to make GPS remarkably accurate in city “urban canyons,” where navigation has long gone wrong. Most of us trust that the location shown by our GPS is accurate. But anyone who has tried navigating an unfamiliar city knows that is not always the case. You may be walking steadily down [...]

Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of the Strange Hum Heard Around the World

Blurry Hearing The HumA mysterious low-frequency sound known as The Hum has been reported around the world for decades, leaving researchers searching for its source. Imagine lying in bed late at night and hearing a faint engine-like drone that seems to come from somewhere outside. You check the windows, listen for traffic, and search for a nearby machine. [...]

Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

2 June 2026 at 21:53
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

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Recovering a surface buoy — part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean — from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
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