Science

Pentagon Space Agency Lags Behind Its Own Speed Goals

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is launching its first operational satellites seven years after its creation, just as the Pentagon…

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SpaceX aborts Starship launch due to engine startup issue

SpaceX aborted a planned Starship and Super Heavy booster test flight due to an automatic launch abort triggered by some…

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Why Oil Companies Fear Climate Attribution Science

Climate attribution science, which determines if specific extreme weather events were made more likely by climate change, has matured significantly…

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Helium Baked Off Rocky Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Most planets originally had hydrogen-helium atmospheres, but over billions of years these can be lost or transformed into secondary atmospheres,…

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Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT, Explained by a Chatbot

The new book "Inventing ELIZA" corrects the historical record by presenting the actual source code from the MIT Archives, revealing…

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Buzz Aldrin sells Apollo pen that helped launch from the Moon

A broken circuit breaker switch on the Apollo 11 lunar module threatened to strand astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin…

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I tested a human-only ‘Ghost Font’ that tricks AI readers

Ghost Font is an experimental typography project by designer Eric Lu that uses moving dots to create hidden letters visible…

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Unlikely Astronaut Makes Historic Spaceflight

After four rejections, NASA flight surgeon Anil Menon gave up on becoming an astronaut at age 39, believing there was…

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The Real Challenge of Building Orbital Data Centers

SpaceX is heavily investing in orbital data centers, planning a constellation of 1 million satellites with 120 GW of power…

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Sotheby’s T. rex auction sparks fears hype and wealth are distorting science

A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Gus, one of the largest and most complete ever found, is expected to fetch…

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US Approves Mirror Satellite to Reflect Sunlight at Night

The FCC approved Reflect Orbital's experimental mirror satellite Eärendil-1, which will test an 18-meter reflector designed to reflect sunlight onto…

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Painted e-tattoos signal the next generation of wearable biosensors

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed a conductive ink that can be painted directly onto the skin in custom…

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Stop Anthropomorphizing AI: It’s Not Human

Anthropic's research showed that Claude uses internal code for reasoning steps without always translating them into visible words, operating through…

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Feynman’s Sprinkler Solution Decodes “Silly Sprinklers” Too

Researchers at NYU's Courant Institute have solved the classic "reverse sprinkler problem" in fluid dynamics, using experiments with different sprinkler…

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Industry officials flag Crew Dragon availability as a ‘disaster waiting to happen’

NASA's Commercial Crew Program, intended to create two reliable providers for low-Earth orbit transportation, has largely failed as Boeing's Starliner…

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World Models: Their Promise and Limitations Explained

World models are emerging as a new AI category distinct from LLMs, designed to simulate and interact with the physical…

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Polynesians’ Eastward Voyage After 1,700 Years: The Moana Mystery Solved?

The "long pause" refers to a 1,700-year period after the Lapita people settled Samoa and Tonga around 3,000 years ago,…

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Scientists Use AI and Quantum Computing to Discover New Peptides

Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark used a hybrid quantum-classical computer to improve the accuracy of generative AI for…

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Quantum error correction enables constant processor recalibration

Quantum computing faces many practical challenges beyond major hurdles like hardware qubits and exotic states, including the critical issue of…

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China Recovers First Reusable Rocket, Demonstrates New Recovery Method

China successfully recovered a reusable orbital-class booster for the first time on Friday, launching a Long March 10B rocket from…

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