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3 hours ago

A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind and made it a fully aquatic diver in Jurassic World Rebirth—a rendering that was more in line with the latest paleontological knowledge. But now, deep in the Sahara Desert, a team of researchers led by Paul C. Sereno discovered new Spinosaurus fossils suggesting both scientists and filmmakers might have got it all wrong again.
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16 hours ago

Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead

NASA's Exploration Upper Stage, a Boeing-developed upgrade for the SLS rocket, was cancelled in favor of United Launch Alliance's next-generation upper stages, ending a project that survived primarily through political support rather than technical necessity.
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6 hours ago

60 years since humans touched the surface of another planet

Venera 3 became the first human-made object to reach another planet when it impacted Venus on March 1, 1966, though it failed to transmit data from the planet itself.
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Phew! NASA confirms 'city destroying' asteroid will MISS moon in 2032

NASA confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely miss both Earth and the Moon in 2032, passing 13,200 miles from the lunar surface.
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Scientist rule out a 2032 lunar impact for asteroid 2024 YR4

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon or Earth; refined orbital measurements reduced impact probability to zero percent.
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Phew! NASA confirms 'city destroying' asteroid will MISS moon in 2032

NASA confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely miss both Earth and the Moon in 2032, passing 13,200 miles from the lunar surface.
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1 day ago

Scientist rule out a 2032 lunar impact for asteroid 2024 YR4

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon or Earth; refined orbital measurements reduced impact probability to zero percent.
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19 hours ago
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NASA changed an asteroid's orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind

NASA's DART mission altered an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time, demonstrating humanity's capability to deflect potentially hazardous asteroids through kinetic impact.
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Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbital trajectory of the entire Didymos binary asteroid system around the Sun, not just the moonlet's local orbit.
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19 hours ago

NASA changed an asteroid's orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind

NASA's DART mission altered an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time, demonstrating humanity's capability to deflect potentially hazardous asteroids through kinetic impact.
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1 day ago

4 Winning Space Stocks To Buy Before The Artemis Launch

Four companies with direct operational connections to NASA's Artemis program have strong backlogs and earnings, positioned to benefit from lunar economy development before the April 2026 mission launch window.
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20 hours ago

NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say

A Senate committee proposes extending the International Space Station operations through 2032 and prohibits deorbiting until a commercial replacement becomes operational.
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1 day ago

NASA wants ISS extended to 2032 and a Moon base too

The NASA Authorization Act of 2026 extends the International Space Station to 2032 and directs NASA to establish a permanent Moon base while rejecting proposed budget cuts.
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1 day ago

Ask Ethan: Do signals degrade as they travel through space?

Signals from distant cosmic sources change during transmission but do not deteriorate; instead, they undergo alterations that scientists can typically account for and correct.
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3 days ago
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After Nixing Its Planned Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

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1 day ago

Rocket Report: SpaceX launch prices are going up; Russia fixes broken launch pad

NASA replaces Space Launch System's new upper stage with United Launch Alliance's commercial Centaur stage to reduce costs and simplify Artemis missions.
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3 days ago

After Nixing Its Planned Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

NASA delays Artemis III crewed lunar landing to 2028, signaling U.S. space program lag behind China amid mounting technical and budgetary challenges.
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fromFast Company
4 days ago

NASA's overhauled Artemis mission design will push its lunar landing to 2028

NASA delays Artemis III moon landing to 2028, prioritizing safety testing, workforce retention, and increased launch frequency to compete with China's space program.
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17 hours ago

Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases

Planet Labs implemented a 96-hour delay on satellite imagery from Gulf States, Iraq, and Kuwait to prevent adversarial actors from using damage assessment data during Middle East conflict.
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1 day ago

Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

We think that in this early deuterostome, the median eye contained both ciliary and rhabdomeric cells. As a result, both cellular lineages were incorporated into a single, ancient, cyclopean eye, which later evolved into the vertebrate eyes.
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20 hours ago

Bill Gates' TerraPower gets approval to build new nuclear reactor | TechCrunch

The NRC approved TerraPower's Natrium reactor, a 345-megawatt sodium-cooled nuclear plant in Wyoming, marking the first commercial non-water-cooled reactor approved in over 40 years.
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1 day ago

'My scientific career is essentially over.' A brain drain imperils Massachusetts' biomedical future.

Over two-thirds said they recommend their students consider careers outside academia. The majority had delayed hiring in their labs, and one-third had laid off workers. More than one in six said they have lost researchers to institutions in other countries since Trump took office. Sixty-eight percent said funding cuts and federal policy changes had moderately or significantly reduced the scope of their work.
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2 days ago

Daily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart

Advanced forensic techniques including whole-genome sequencing and epigenetic analysis can differentiate between identical twins in criminal investigations, while GLP-1 drugs show potential in reducing addiction across multiple substances, and researchers have successfully synthesized hexagonal diamond.
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1 day ago

Don't let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky

We are firmly in the era of the satellite constellation—groups of dozens of similar satellites—and are currently entering the era of the mega constellation, wherein groups of thousands of satellites swarm the skies. The clusters of satellites started small, but, like a viral outbreak, they grew almost without us noticing—and now we're dealing with a pandemic.
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3 days ago

Ex-NASA boss backs Artemis shake-up, skips the hard bits

NASA Administrator Isaacman is restructuring the Artemis program by repurposing Artemis III as a technology demonstration and moving the lunar landing to Artemis IV in 2028, while increasing Space Launch System launch cadence to reduce operational risks.
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3 days ago

Ex-NASA boss backs Artemis shake-up, skips the hard bits

NASA Administrator Isaacman is restructuring the Artemis program by repurposing Artemis III as a technology demonstration and moving the lunar landing to Artemis IV in 2028, while increasing Space Launch System launch cadence to reduce operational risks.
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fromMail Online
1 day ago

Aliens have tried to contact us for YEARS - 'looking for wrong thing'

Space weather distortion near alien star systems may be broadening radio signals, causing Earth-based detectors optimized for narrow frequencies to miss extraterrestrial transmissions.
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22 hours ago

NASA astronaut says we're 'living a lie' after 178-day stay in space

Astronaut Ron Garan realized from space that humanity prioritizes economic growth over planetary life-support systems, requiring a fundamental reordering of priorities to planet, society, economy.
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fromPsychology Today
20 hours ago

The Unbearable Fear of Psi: When Skepticism Shifts to Denial

Scientific investigation of extraordinary human experiences encounters emotional resistance and dismissal that exceeds standard methodological critique, reflecting deeper discomfort with certain research topics rather than legitimate scientific skepticism.
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fromBusiness Matters
1 day ago

Glasgow opens new Health Innovation Hub to accelerate life sciences innovation

Glasgow's 87,000 sq ft Health Innovation Hub officially opened, positioning the city as a global centre for life sciences innovation and precision medicine research.
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fromState of the Planet
21 hours ago

Art Meets Science at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Art and science both seek to understand patterns emerging from noise, sharing creative processes and detail-oriented work despite appearing distinct.
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1 day ago

Archiving the Technosphere: How Museum Architecture Mediates Human-Made Systems

The contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks to document. The architecture of these institutions has become increasingly fluid and bold, often mirroring the velocity and complexity of the systems it houses. They operate as mediators between the human, the ecological, and the technological realms, transforming from encyclopedic warehouses into active educational engines.
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fromArs Technica
23 hours ago

Climate change sucks, but at least it won't kill your EV battery

Technological battery improvements offset climate warming effects on EV battery lifespan, with newer batteries maintaining performance even under extreme 4°C warming scenarios.
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21 hours ago

Bird flu rips through another beloved Bay Area species

Bay Area peregrine falcon numbers began plummeting after a massive, global outbreak of avian flu in 2020, the study documents, with only about a third of the nesting sites still in use as of 2025. The news, while dire, nevertheless helps scientists understand how the disease is impacting local populations, and what we can expect for their recovery.
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1 day ago

IBM scientists unveil the first ever half-Mobius molecule, with the help of quantum computing

IBM researchers created a novel ring-shaped molecule with twisted electron motion resembling a complex Möbius strip, confirmed through quantum computers and advanced microscopy.
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Prediction, Survival, and the Origins of Feeling

According to the Free Energy Principle (FEP), developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston and colleagues, much of what the brain does can be understood as minimizing such mismatches—a technical form of 'surprise' defined as the improbability of sensory input given an internal model. The proposal brings perception, action, learning, and decision-making under a single framework.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 days ago

US Navy Use Laser Weapons During Operation Epic Fury - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The US military deployed advanced weapons including HELIOS laser systems, heat-tracking satellites, and cyber tools during Operation Epic Fury to intercept Iranian missiles and drones.
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1 day ago

Over 120 earthquakes strike near US nuclear weapons testing facilities

The remote military range near the town of Tonopah is not primarily used for nuclear detonations, but it has long been linked to US nuclear weapons programs. The site is used to test how nuclear weapons would be delivered, including experiments where aircraft drop non-nuclear versions of bombs to study their performance.
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2 days ago

US approves TerraPower's sodium-cooled reactor, testing whether next-gen nuclear can meet AI-era power demands - Silicon Canals

The Natrium reactor, developed jointly by Bill Gates-backed TerraPower and GE Hitachi, is being built as part of the Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. It represents something genuinely new: a reactor designed from the ground up to complement renewable energy rather than compete with it.
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fromTechRepublic
1 day ago

The Ocean May Be the Next Home for AI Data Centers

Offshore wind-powered underwater data centers offer a practical alternative to space-based solutions, combining renewable energy generation and natural seawater cooling.
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fromNature
3 days ago

Daily briefing: The return of the snail - the month's best science images

Cancer blood tests show promise but lack regulatory approval and randomized trials, with concerns about false positives outweighing benefits for widespread adoption.
fromCornell Chronicle
2 days ago

NYCST grants boost New York state space tech industry | Cornell Chronicle

As global competition in space accelerates, New York is mobilizing its premier research institutions through NYCST to address workforce shortages, close capability gaps and mature the critical technologies our nation needs. For decades, our state has been a home to innovative aerospace companies. Through NYCST, we are now aligning that heritage with our top-tier research institutions to ensure that industry can develop and scale up breakthrough technologies right here in New York.
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fromTheregister
2 days ago

AI-trained robotic mice to roam the Large Hadron Collider

UKAEA and CERN developed PipeINEER, a 3.7 cm robot that autonomously inspects the 27 km Large Hadron Collider pipes using AI to detect component deformations without human access.
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2 days ago

Mars spacecraft measure effects of solar storm on red planet

A solar storm increased electrons in Mars's atmosphere by 45-278 percent, enabling scientists to study space weather effects using radio occultation between two ESA spacecraft.
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1 day ago

Katharine Burr Blodgett kept an inner struggle out of sight as she made history in the laboratory

Katharine Blodgett's 1929 acting role as an inner voice in 'Overtones' foreshadowed her lifelong internal struggle between her public scientific achievements and private emotional conflicts she concealed from the world.
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1 day ago

Scientists created a digital library full of ants

Researchers created Antscan, a digital library of 3D scans and morphological data from 2,193 ants across 212 genera, using particle accelerator technology to advance biodiversity research and understanding of ant anatomy.
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fromNature
2 days ago

First 'half Mobius' carbon chain wows chemists

Chemists synthesized a half-Möbius carbon molecule with a 90° twist instead of 180°, creating a novel molecular structure with distinct left and right-handed forms.
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fromNature
2 days ago

Mysterious brain cells clear proteins that contribute to Alzheimer's disease

Tanycytes, specialized brain cells, transport toxic tau proteins from cerebrospinal fluid into the bloodstream, but malfunction in Alzheimer's disease, causing tau accumulation in the brain.
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2 days ago

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea

Two marsupial species presumed extinct for 6,000 years were discovered alive in West Papua rainforests, representing rare Lazarus taxa that survived despite disappearing from fossil records.
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3 days ago

Europe, China, achieve gigabit links to geostationary sats

The European Space Agency and China's Institute of Optoelectronics both achieved gigabit-speed laser communication links to geostationary satellites, demonstrating major advances in satellite laser communication technology.
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fromNature
3 days ago

Under pressure: the reality of Mexico's research system

Mexican PhD graduates face severe career barriers due to insufficient academic positions, inadequate career guidance, and exploitative supervisor practices that delay graduation and extend unpaid work.
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fromMail Online
2 days ago

US test launches Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile

The US Air Force conducted a scheduled Minuteman III ICBM test launch from California to validate nuclear weapon system readiness and performance capabilities.
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3 months ago

Artemis moon landing plans: Apollo's bold, unruly and controversial successor

The Starship rocket system splits in two after takeoff. The upper spacecraft would head to Earth orbit to serve as that depot, ready to carry nothing but fuel. The towering Super Heavy rocket booster, meanwhile, would return to the launch site so it can be reused.
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2 days ago

The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation authorizing NASA funding and strategic direction for the Artemis program, endorsing Administrator Isaacman's plan to accelerate lunar missions and establish a permanent presence at the lunar south pole.
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2 days ago

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Evo 2, an AI system trained on trillions of base pairs from all life domains, can identify genes, regulatory sequences, and splice sites in complex genomes including humans.
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fromScienceDaily
2 days ago

Scientists reverse muscle aging in mice and discover a surprising catch

Aging muscle stem cells accumulate NDRG1 protein that slows repair but enhances survival, representing a trade-off between functionality and longevity rather than simple decline.
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fromNature
3 days ago

DICER cleavage fidelity is governed by 5-end binding pockets - Nature

DICER is a conserved RNase III enzyme that processes precursor microRNAs and double-stranded RNAs into small regulatory RNAs through precise 5' and 3' end counting mechanisms.
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fromFuturism
3 days ago

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

Excessive AI chatbot use causes cognitive decline and critical thinking atrophy, particularly among students and low-income populations relying on AI for homework completion.
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frominsideevs.com
3 days ago

What Donut Lab's Latest Solid-State EV Battery Test Actually Reveals

Donut Lab's solid-state battery test shows promising high-temperature performance, but experts say the limited data reveals insufficient information about real-world automotive applications.
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4 days ago

Russian Space Agency Says It's Repaired Damaged Baikonur Launch Pad Ahead Of Schedule

The facility suffered a still unexplained mishap last November during the launch of a Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American to the orbiting station. Officials said a component called a maintenance or service cabin failed to move out from under the blast of exhaust from the ascending rocket.
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3 days ago

No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon

NASA resolved a hydrogen leak on the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and fixed a helium flow obstruction in the upper stage, with the vehicle expected to return to the launch pad within two weeks.
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3 days ago

Energy announces $352M in funding for frontier science

For over 15 years, the EFRC program has provided a transformational research environment that has brought together the strengths of our National Laboratories and universities to accelerate discovery, develop innovative tools, and train the next generation of the American energy science workforce. The EFRCs will continue to play a vital role in bridging disciplines and institutions, advancing foundational science and strengthening America's leadership to push forward scientific frontiers critical for new energy technologies.
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fromFast Company
4 days ago

This Berkeley building can snap back into place after a major earthquake

The rods are the central element of a novel seismic-responsive structural system that is designed to help the building snap back to its original shape in the event of a major earthquake. Their trick is an embedded cluster of taut cables made from a highly flexible compound called a shape-memory alloy that's capable of bending under tension-like the lateral shaking in a California earthquake-and then straightening out.
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4 days ago

Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history

GEMINI leverages a computationally designed protein assembly as an intracellular memory device to record the history of individual cells. GEMINI grows predictably within live cells, capturing cellular events as tree-ring-like fluorescent patterns for imaging-based retrospective readout. Absolute chronological information of activity histories is attainable with hour-level accuracy.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

How the Brain Interprets Faces Into Social Messages

Facial expressions emerge from coordinated activity across multiple brain regions operating on different timescales, from rapid motor signals to slower stable representations, creating socially meaningful and well-coordinated gestures.
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fromNature
5 days ago

AI agents are 'aeroplanes for the mind': five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots

AI agents function as mental aeroplanes, accelerating scientific research far beyond bicycles, but require robust domain-specific grounding and careful control to manage risks and failures.
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5 days ago

Storage for a virtual eternity, but we're not there yet

Microsoft's Project Silica uses femtosecond lasers to store 2TB of data in glass plates, offering a potentially permanent solution to digital preservation compared to fragile magnetic tape storage.
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1 week ago
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NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

NASA restructures Artemis program to increase mission cadence, cancel expensive SLS upgrades, and use commercial lunar landers to accelerate lunar exploration and compete with China.
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NASA revamps Artemis moon landing program by modeling it after speedy Apollo

NASA restructures Artemis program to add practice missions before lunar landing, targeting 2028 instead of original timeline due to rocket technical issues and safety concerns.
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5 days ago

Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck

NASA restructured Artemis to move the first crewed lunar landing to Artemis IV in 2028, with Artemis III performing lunar lander checkout in Earth orbit in 2027 to reduce risk.
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1 week ago

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

NASA restructures Artemis program to increase mission cadence, cancel expensive SLS upgrades, and use commercial lunar landers to accelerate lunar exploration and compete with China.
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5 days ago

'We're never going back': Fans FURIOUS as NASA pushes back Artemis

NASA postponed Artemis III lunar landing from 2027 to 2028, implementing incremental mission steps including orbital docking practice and spacesuit testing instead of immediate moon landing.
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5 days ago

Oh great, here comes 6G

6G is entering early discussion phases with commercialization targeted for 2030, featuring satellite connectivity, environmental sensing networks, and AI integration, though specifications remain undefined.
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5 days ago

CEO of space defense startup True Anomaly says US needs to catch up to China and Russia in orbit

Space has become a contested domain with national security implications, and the US lags behind China and Russia in space capabilities and rapid-response reconnaissance.
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5 days ago

Only these six spacecraft will ever escape the Solar System

Only six of over 17,000 space payloads escape the Solar System's gravity, with Pioneer 10 being the first spacecraft to achieve Solar System escape velocity through a Jupiter gravitational assist in 1973.
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4 days ago

Starlink's next-gen satellite network could provide 150 Mbps speeds by end of next year

Starlink V2 satellites launching mid-2027 will deliver 150 Mbps speeds with 100 times greater data density than current generation, matching terrestrial 5G network performance.
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6 days ago

A rare lunar eclipse and the spring constellations will light up the March sky

March offers stargazers a rare total lunar eclipse on March 3 and spring constellations including Leo becoming visible as the season begins on March 20.
fromBig Think
4 days ago

The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world

If we told them to look at the face, they could usually manage it. But they were mostly looking at the hands. The Prakash children eventually learn to look at faces when spoken to - usually a few months after their surgeries. Their experiences reveal that seeing doesn't come naturally the moment a person is cured of blindness. Newly-sighted people must learn to see.
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5 days ago

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

SpaceX filed a patent for orbital data centers with up to one million satellites, but experts remain highly skeptical about financial feasibility and technological viability of space-based AI infrastructure.
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6 days ago

It Seems Like It Would Be Fun to Go to Mars. Well, No One Considers This Part.

Human space travel faces significant health challenges, particularly from confinement, isolation, and radiation exposure that currently lack adequate solutions.
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fromArtforum
6 days ago

Recursive Resemblance

Generative AI models risk collapse when trained on their own output, causing statistical degradation and improbable sequences that compound approximation errors over time.
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6 days ago

MIT's New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

MIT researchers developed a multi-material 3D printer capable of fabricating complete electric motors with moving parts in three hours for 50 cents using five different materials.
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6 days ago

Good Will Hunting: Why mathematicians hate the Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama

Good Will Hunting's famous blackboard math problem lacks mathematical rigor, while the film was inspired by the true story of George Dantzig, founder of linear programming.
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1 week ago

Constant Space Launches Turning Earth's Atmosphere Into a "Crematorium," Scientists Say

Constant satellite launches and re-entries are releasing harmful metals into Earth's atmosphere, potentially damaging the ozone layer and creating environmental hazards.
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6 days ago

Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful

Lab-grown brain organoids can now process information in real time and solve complex engineering problems, marking a major advancement in neuroscience research.
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1 week ago

NASA Is Making Big Changes to Speed Up the Artemis Program

NASA plans to standardize the SLS rocket into a single configuration and launch every 10 months instead of every 3.5 years to improve reliability and reduce delays caused by hydrogen and helium leaks.
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1 week ago

The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth

Hubble Space Telescope's orbit is decaying faster than expected, potentially leading to deorbit before 2030, though NASA projects mid-2030s at earliest.
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1 week ago

'Planetary parade' will see SIX planets align in rare spectacle

Chances to see 4 bright planets with your own eyes occur every few years on average, so it's not once in a lifetime. Even so, the planets are best observable just after sunset, so this is one of the most convenient opportunities for several years.
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1 week ago

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured speeding through the solar system by Jupiter-bound spacecraft

Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor from outside our solar system, traveled through our cosmic neighborhood at speeds exceeding 150,000 miles per hour, displaying behavior consistent with normal comets despite its mysterious origin.
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1 week ago

NASA Rover Exploring Strange, Haunting Structures on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover explores ancient boxwork formations on Mars that may indicate prolonged water presence and potential for past microbial life.
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1 week ago

Who'd guess they're the same species?' What Italy's wall lizards reveal about genetic diversity and why it matters

Biodiversity encompasses variation within species, not just species inventory, as demonstrated by common wall lizards showing dramatic differences in color, size, and behavior despite being the same species.
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1 week ago

Unlocking the secrets of an ancient plague

A single strain of Yersinia Pestis bacteria killed hundreds of people in 7th-century Jerash within days, revealing the rapid spread and lethality of the Plague of Justinian pandemic.
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Daily briefing: Stem-cell treatment strengthens people with age-related frailty

Researchers administered one of four doses of stem cells to 118 people between 70 and 85 years old, all of whom had frailty. In a timed walking test nine months after treatment, those who had received the highest dose could walk about 60 metres farther, on average, than they could before treatment.
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1 week ago

Eerie brain-like nebula captured in stunning new JWST images

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the Exposed Cranium nebula, a dying star 5,000 light-years away shedding layers of gas and dust in a brain-like formation.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

What Is Life?

Life's definition remains scientifically elusive, with origin theories suggesting asteroids triggered chemical cascades enabling self-organizing molecules to develop memory, agency, and consciousness from inert matter.
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fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Photons that aren't actually there influence superconductivity

Virtual photons from quantum fields can degrade superconductor performance, providing insights into quantum mechanics and superconductivity behavior.
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