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NEW YORK — Nick Sogard was batting .188 for Triple-A Worcester on May 9. On the final day of September, he helped the Red Sox win 3-1 over the Yankees in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series at Yankee Stadium. “It’s been a bizarre year for me,” Sogard admitted. Sogard’s hustling double in the seventh inning helped turn Boston’s …

In the 1950s, it was believed we knew more about the surface of the moon than the deep seas on Earth. Since then, humans have landed on the moon’s surface and have dived nearly seven miles in a submersible to the ocean’s deepest point. Scientists continue to make discoveries about both extreme environments, but so far, only one has been …

Hope springs eternal on NBA media day, when every team is 0-0 and all of their goals are within reach. The start of every season begins the same way: players tell us they are in the best shape of their life, they’ve gained 15 pounds of muscle, and they’re ready to do anything it takes to contribute to winning. It’s …

What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international team of researchers investigated the atmospheric composition of a nearby rogue planet, including its atmospheric temperature and auroras. This study has the potential to help astronomers better understand rogue …

Mysteries abound in the Solar System. Though it can sometimes seem like we’ve learned a lot, you can pick any object in the Solar System and quickly come up with unanswered questions. That’s certainly true of tiny Mercury. Mercury’s mystery lies in its core. Ground based radio observations during the 1960s and 1970s showed that it had a massive core. …

A bizarre app that invites you to record and share your audio calls so that it can sell the data to AI companies has become the second most downloaded social app in the app store. Neon Mobile says that users can sell their privacy for hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year by allowing their audio conversations to be …

Oregon and Oregon State football are headed for a pause in their rivalry game in 2026. The Beavers and Ducks are set to continue the historic series beginning in 2027, but next season will be the first time the game hasn’t been played in more than 80 years. There have been just two previous pauses since the rivalry series began …

Updating your PC regularly is one of the very first and potentially biggest rules of cybersecurity. It just is. But tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) recently brought out a move that directly defies this major rule, and called on PC owners to not update. This baffling condition left investors puzzled, and pulling back in concern. Microsoft shares dropped fractionally in Thursday …

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, a bizarre conspiracy theory swept through global social media: that the disease was caused by radio-frequency emissions from 5G cell phone towers. The wild theories spread across social media platforms. The belief in this conspiracy was so fervent that the media reported more than 100 incidents of arson and vandalism against 5G (and 4G) …

For the first time, astronomers have seen the inner layers of a star revealed in its final moments. The finding suggests a new, more violent pathway for how massive stars die. Credit: Shutterstock A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers …