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Beluga whales pass the mirror test, but what does it mean?

A new study in "PLOS One" documents beluga whales Natasha and Maris exhibiting mirror self-recognition (MSR) behavior, marking the first…

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SpaceX Starship V3 First Flight Mostly Successful, Still in Development

SpaceX successfully launched the first test flight of its upgraded Starship V3 rocket, which completed its maiden voyage by splashing…

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Russian satellites close in on ICEYE radarsat

Four Russian Kosmos military satellites recently adjusted their orbits to closely align with a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite, ICEYE-X36, raising…

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SpaceX Launches Starship V3 Weeks Before IPO, Booster Explodes

SpaceX's 12th Starship test flight successfully deployed 20 simulated Starlink satellites and transmitted live video from space, but the Super…

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NASA rethinks structure to accelerate major goals

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced structural changes to streamline the agency, focusing on key objectives like returning astronauts to the…

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De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages

The authors thank D. Juergens for computational design assistance, F. Praetorius and D. Sahtoe for providing de novo designed LHD…

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LiDAR Motion Trick Reveals Hidden Objects

A new technique exploits deliberate motion in LiDAR sensors to reconstruct hidden objects by analyzing how light patterns change as…

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3-Minute Video Game Accurately Detects Depression

A three-minute video game where players collect apples can diagnose clinical depression by detecting anhedonia, as depressed players switch trees…

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Solar and Hydro Gains Push Coal Off US Grid

US grid has returned to modest demand growth and renewables displacing coal, with hydroelectric generation surging due to unseasonably warm…

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SpaceX Starship V3 debut scrubbed due to ground system issue

SpaceX aborted the launch of its upgraded Starship V3 with 40 seconds left in the countdown due to a ground…

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JWST Maps Extreme Weather on Hot Gas Giant 700 Light-Years Away

The James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the atmosphere of the tidally locked exoplanet WASP-94A b, revealing a dynamic climate…

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AI System Helps Scientists Write Expert-Level Software

The ERA system combines a Large Language Model with Tree Search algorithms to autonomously create expert-level scientific software, focusing on…

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International Space Station Reports New Leak

The Russian segment of the International Space Station has resumed leaking air into space due to microscopic structural cracks, a…

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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Captures Unfamiliar Views of Mars

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, launched in October 2023, used a close Mars flyby (within 2,864 miles) to gain a 1,000-mile-per-hour speed…

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OpenAI says it solved an 80-year-old math problem, for real

OpenAI’s latest reasoning model has generated an original mathematical proof disproving a long-standing geometry conjecture first posed by Paul Erdős…

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De-Extinction Firm Creates Artificial Egg, No Chicken Needed

Colossal has developed an artificial eggshell that allows bird embryos to develop fully outside a natural shell, with healthy chicks…

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Russia’s rocket ads plan moves forward

The Russian economy has likely shrunk over the past five years, with inflation high and international sanctions costing Moscow roughly…

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AI Science Assistants Succeed in Drug-Repurposing Tasks

Two new AI systems, Google's Co-Scientist and FutureHouse's tool, aim to assist scientists by forming and testing hypotheses, primarily in…

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SandboxAQ puts drug discovery AI on Claude, no coding PhD needed

SandboxAQ has partnered with Anthropic to integrate its physics-based large quantitative models (LQMs) into Claude, making advanced drug discovery tools…

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Pompeii skeleton identified as likely doctor

Archaeologists identified a Pompeii victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption as likely a Roman doctor, using CT scans…

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