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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of numerous generals, admirals

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of numerous generals, admirals

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed numerous generals and admirals, as well as some of their staff, from around the world to come to Quantico, Virginia next week, U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. “The Secretary of War will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” said chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell. There were no other …

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‘We thought it was a problem with the instrument’: Scientists shocked by rare ‘Einstein cross’ with a surprise in the center

‘We thought it was a problem with the instrument’: Scientists shocked by rare ‘Einstein cross’ with a surprise in the center

An odd image of a distant galaxy has revealed what might be an enormous blob of dark matter hiding in plain sight. When astronomers first looked at the new image of the galaxy HerS-3, taken by the Northern Extended Millimeter Array radio telescopes in France, they thought there was an error in the data. “We were like, ‘What the heck?'” …

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The rare disease that stops us feeling fear

The rare disease that stops us feeling fear

The finding set Feinstein on a decade-long search for the truth about the amygdala’s role in fear. It turns out that there are actually two different fear pathways in the brain, depending on whether the threat is external or internal. Getty ImagesCaption: Subject S M jumped out of a plane on a skydive and felt no fear because of her …

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Rare satellite footage shows the moon eclipsing the sun on a strangely crooked path

Rare satellite footage shows the moon eclipsing the sun on a strangely crooked path

Coronagraph imagery of the partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, 2025. (Image credit: NOAA, GOES-19 CCOR-1) On Sept. 21, while skywatchers on Earth were eagerly watching a partial solar eclipse unfold, NOAA’s space weather sentinel GOES-19 was also keeping watch from orbit. From its vantage point high above Earth, the satellite’s Compact Coronagraph-1 (CCOR-1) recorded something unusual: a natural solar …

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Crowds flock to Google’s Mountain View campus to see rare bird

Crowds flock to Google’s Mountain View campus to see rare bird

A dark-eyed flycatcher was spotted recently on Google’s Mountain View campus, one of the first sightings in the United States. Courtesy Eric Goodill. A rare bird appeared on Google’s Mountain View campus last week, causing a big stir as throngs of people came to see the dark-sided flycatcher before it flew away. The flycatcher was spotted on Wednesday, Sept. 17, …

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Parents fight to raise awareness of rare disease ‘cluster’

Parents fight to raise awareness of rare disease ‘cluster’

Rachel Cowley found out that her daughter Jessica has DRPLA in May this year Rachel Cowley’s daughter Jessica was like any other 10-year-old until she started having seizures. Now aged 20, Jessica is unable to walk or talk, and Ms Cowley fears she will die in the next few years. “I hope when the time comes it is quick,” said …

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