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Dust devil migration patterns reveal strong near-surface winds across #Mars: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5170 -> Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars / Raging winds on Mars / How fast winds sweep across Mars: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Dancing_dust_devils_trace_raging_winds_on_Mars / https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2025/media_releases_2025/raging_winds_on_mars/index_eng.html / https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2025/how-fast-winds-sweep-across-mars

Merz: Kein harter Schnitt für Autobranche durch Verbrenner-Aus 2035
Beim Autogipfel in Berlin ging es auch um das Ende des Verbrenners 2035. Kanzler Merz will das verhindern.
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Marc Benioff says President Trump is "doing a great job" and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send National Guard to San Francisco
Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump.

At least some good news:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd

Supreme Court rejects appeal to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices on Monday turned away an appeal from a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling. Clerk Kim Davis had been trying to get the justices to overturn a lower-court order that she pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. Justice Clarence Thomas has urged his colleagues to overturn t…

At least some good news:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-50eb4ad421911696e742d8c4fb4962fd

Supreme Court rejects appeal to overturn its same-sex marriage ruling
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices on Monday turned away an appeal from a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling. Clerk Kim Davis had been trying to get the justices to overturn a lower-court order that she pay $360,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. Justice Clarence Thomas has urged his colleagues to overturn t…

NASA discovers ‘clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars’
Rolling across the rugged, rusty red terrain on Mars,
NASA’s Perseverance rover came upon some rocks with peculiar green, blue, black and white dots.
After detailed image analysis, scientists have come to a potentially encouraging conclusion:
If those speckled rocks were formed like they are on Earth, they might be evidence of past life on the dusty planet

NASA discovers ‘clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars’
Detailed analysis of images of speckled rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a “potential biosignature.”

A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/

Memo: Vishal Shah, Meta's VP of Metaverse, tells his team to use AI to "go 5X faster" and expects 80% of them to integrate AI into their day-to-day by Q4 (Jason Koebler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-push-metaverse/

Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.

Stratigraphic Evidence of Backwater Morphodynamics and Lowland River Deltas in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars: #Mars Once Have an Ocean? New Research Suggests Yes: https://news.uark.edu/articles/80081/did-mars-once-have-an-ocean-new-research-suggests-yes

V Sge - Supersoft Source or Exotic Hot Binary? An X-Shooter campaign in the high state: #star is eating its cosmic twin at rate never seen before: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/09/hungry-star-is-eating-its-cosmic-twin.page