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A pair of second-generation pecan farmers worry that their future is grim after weather events fueled by the changing climate have led to a year of total crop failure at their orchard in Texas. What’s happening? Texas news station KXXV spoke with Gail and Mark Blanpied, who own Rascoe Pecans. “Those pecans, I don’t know what it was about my …

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Care and Feeding readers, I’m Arionne—your new columnist. I’m mom to an 18-year-old son, Jackson, who may be non-speaking but, like many teens, never fails to let me know exactly what’s on his mind. I’m also a college professor, teaching digital journalism at Florida …

Welcome to this week’s quantum computing update as the field continues to evolve with advances that reach across many sectors. This week brings progress in hardware, new funding plans, and real-world trials that could shape future markets. Researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside revealed a system that runs at room temperature. Quantinuum is in talks for a funding round that …

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that’s rich in the mineral form of calcium carbonate, and teeming with coccolithophores, tiny marine organisms that grow reflective calcite shells out …

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of our home planet from deep space. Psyche launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in October 2023 with the objective of visiting the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, which is believed to be the exposed core of a demolished planetesimal, or tiny …

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By simulating Einstein’s equations under extreme conditions, researchers may finally glimpse what happened before the Big Bang. Credit: Shutterstock What if the Big Bang wasn’t truly the beginning? A team of cosmologists is using the power of supercomputers to push past the limits of Einstein’s equations and explore mysteries once thought unsolvable. By applying numerical relativity—simulations that can model extreme …

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Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a tiny new moon orbiting Uranus, a rare discovery that expands Uranus’ total known moons to 29, and the first inner one found in nearly 40 years. Provisionally named S/2025 U1, the hidden moon was first detected on February 2, 2025, and at just 10 kilometers (six miles) wide it is …