Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: April 16, 2026, 07:35 AM PHT
Last updated: April 16, 2026, 07:35 AM PHT
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#1Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac
The Verge — April 16, 2026, 02:10 AM PHT
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#2Next-generation CT scanner reveal new details inside 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy remains
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 07:30 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#3'Interstellar glaciers': NASA's SPHEREx maps vast galactic ice regions
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 07:20 AM PHT
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#4The giants of the reef: New citizen science project races to document centennial corals
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 07:20 AM PHT
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#5Shakespeare's 'missing' London house mapped with new discovery
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 07:10 AM PHT
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#6Marine sponge bacterium enzyme reveals a two-part route to make terpenoids
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 07:10 AM PHT
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#7AI tool maps stable metal oxide catalysts without coding, speeding clean energy searches
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 07:00 AM PHT
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#8‘Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender’ Leaked Online. Some Fans Say Paramount Deserves the Fallout
Miles Klee — April 16, 2026, 06:53 AM PHT
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#9Electrons crack open organic solar cells, exposing their hidden 3D molecular architecture in a single microscope
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:50 AM PHT
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#10Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO
Tim De Chant — April 16, 2026, 06:44 AM PHT
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#11Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT
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#12Machine learning tool pinpoints optimal locations for tree planting, offering a powerful tool for climate mitigation
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:30 AM PHT
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#13Stress-triggered protein clusters reveal how cells sort damaged cargo
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT
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#14Astronomers crack a decades-old mystery, catching gas morphing into planet-building disks around newborn stars
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT
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#15Dark matter could explain the earliest supermassive black holes
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:10 AM PHT
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#16Cut off from making fat, parasitic wasps lose pheromones, fail to form eggs and cannot reproduce
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 06:10 AM PHT
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#17Microsoft's new college deal is a half-hearted answer to the $500 MacBook Neo
Ian Carlos Campbell — April 16, 2026, 05:53 AM PHT
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#18Scientists capture superconductivity's 'dancing pairs' for first time, revealing missing pieces in a decades-old theory
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:50 AM PHT
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#19Wait, could they still actually break up Live Nation?
Amanda Silberling — April 16, 2026, 05:38 AM PHT
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#20Bolivian mummy rewrites scarlet fever's past, suggesting killer bacterium circulated centuries before colonization
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:30 AM PHT
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#21Color test 'sniffs out' dangerous staph strains fast
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT
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#22Machine learning accelerates analysis of fusion materials
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT
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#23Quantum simulations reveal spin transport in 1D materials
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT
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#24Ford’s EV and software chief Doug Field is leaving the company
The Verge — April 16, 2026, 05:12 AM PHT
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#25Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends with an acquisition by Caterpillar
Sean O'Kane — April 16, 2026, 05:05 AM PHT
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#26Emerging in Alaska, dominant H5N1 strain spread continent-wide through migratory birds
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT
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#27Ancient charcoal sheds new light on how early humans fueled their lives
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT
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#28Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.
louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — April 16, 2026, 04:58 AM PHT
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#29Why this single-chip LED advance could shrink AR glasses and boost quantum links
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT
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#30Hawai'i's songbirds are raiding neighbors' nests, and the losses could deepen a growing survival crisis
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 16, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT
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#31Federal jury finds concert business Live Nation is a monopoly
Anna Washenko — April 16, 2026, 04:39 AM PHT
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#32Trump’s posting even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fan art
The Verge — April 16, 2026, 04:03 AM PHT
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#33PlayStation Plus April catalog adds include Horizon Remastered, Squirrel with a Gun and Frank Stone
Jessica Conditt — April 16, 2026, 03:45 AM PHT
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#34Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit
taryn.plumb@venturebeat.com (Taryn Plumb) — April 16, 2026, 03:35 AM PHT
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#35Boston Dynamics’ robot dog now reads gauges and thermometers with Google's AI
Jeremy Hsu — April 16, 2026, 03:34 AM PHT
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#36Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks
bendee983@gmail.com (Ben Dickson) — April 16, 2026, 03:30 AM PHT
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#37OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents
Lucas Ropek — April 16, 2026, 03:28 AM PHT
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#38FTC pushes ad agencies into dropping brand safety rules
The Verge — April 16, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT
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#39Space combat was 'critical to mission success' in US war in Iran, Space Force chief says
brett.tingley@futurenet.com (Brett Tingley) — April 16, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#40Hightouch reaches $100M ARR fueled by marketing tools powered by AI
Marina Temkin — April 16, 2026, 02:55 AM PHT
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#41LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet
Sarah Perez — April 16, 2026, 02:51 AM PHT
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#42Feds will require data centers to show their power bills
Tim De Chant — April 16, 2026, 02:50 AM PHT
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#43We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and 'Routines' — here's what enterprises should know
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — April 16, 2026, 02:40 AM PHT
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#44AI learning app Gizmo levels up with 13M users and a $22M investment
Lauren Forristal — April 16, 2026, 02:38 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#45There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
Lawrence Bonk — April 16, 2026, 02:34 AM PHT
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#46Vulcan woes will "absolutely" be a factor in Pentagon's next rocket competition
Stephen Clark — April 16, 2026, 02:33 AM PHT
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#47Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Rebecca Bellan — April 16, 2026, 02:33 AM PHT
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#48Microsoft counters the MacBook Neo with freebies for students
The Verge — April 16, 2026, 02:11 AM PHT
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#49AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
Will Knight — April 16, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT
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#50FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
Jon Brodkin — April 16, 2026, 01:58 AM PHT
Covered by 1 source
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#51AI's next bottleneck isn't the models — it's whether agents can think together
taryn.plumb@venturebeat.com (Taryn Plumb) — April 16, 2026, 01:52 AM PHT
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#52This Khosla-backed autonomous pod startup just raised $170M — now it’s aiming for more
Kirsten Korosec — April 16, 2026, 01:46 AM PHT
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