Science / Science & Exploration
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One more way to die: Tremors when Vesuvius erupted collapsed shelter walls
Two male skeletons showed signs of severe fracture and trauma injuries.
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Researchers track individual neurons as they respond to words
When processing language, individual neurons respond to words with similar meanings.
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Researchers build ultralight drone that flies with onboard solar
Bizarre design uses a solar-powered motor that's optimized for weight.
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Electric eels inspire novel “jelly” batteries for soft robotics, wearables
Another team built a lithium-ion battery with electrolyte layer that expands by 5,000%.
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Five people infected as bird flu appears to go from cows to chickens to humans
High temperatures made it hard for workers to use protective gear during culling.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX and X will relocate their headquarters to Texas
The billionaire blamed a California gender identity law for moving SpaceX and X headquarters.
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Meet the woman whose research helped the FBI catch notorious serial killers
Hulu documentary Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer traces career of Dr. Ann Burgess.
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Seismic data shows Mars is often pummeled by planet-shaking meteorites
Seismic information now allows us to make a planet-wide estimate of impact rates.
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The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America’s heartland
The New Madrid fault line remains something of an enigma to seismologists.
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With Falcon 9 grounded, SpaceX test-fires booster for next Starship flight
SpaceX says a liquid oxygen leak caused the failure of a Falcon 9 launch last week.
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Will space-based solar power ever make sense?
Years of talk have now moved to design studies and hardware in space.
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Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy
Blood stem cells are being engineered to protect them from lethal therapies.
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren’t great
This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.
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Animals use physics? Let us count the ways
Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws.
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In the South, sea level rise accelerates at some of the most extreme rates on Earth
The surge is startling scientists, amplifying impacts such as hurricane storm surges.
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NATO allies pledge $1 billion to promote sharing of space-based intel
Agreement marks the largest investment in space-based capabilities in NATO’s history.
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NASA’s flagship mission to Europa has a problem: Vulnerability to radiation
"What keeps me awake right now is the uncertainty."
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Much of Neanderthal genetic diversity came from modern humans
Neanderthals' low diversity means their population was even smaller than we thought.
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500 million-year-old fossil is the earliest branch of the spider’s lineage
A local fossil collector in Morocco found the specimen decades ago.
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Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.
There's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway.
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Rocket Report: Chinese firm suffers another failure; Ariane 6 soars in debut
"This powers Europe back into space.”
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SpaceX’s unmatched streak of perfection with the Falcon 9 rocket is over
The Falcon 9 is grounded pending an investigation, possibly delaying upcoming crew flights.
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Scientists built real-life “stillsuit” to recycle astronaut urine on space walks
Prototype would replace multi-layered adult diapers currently worn on space walks.
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Lion brothers in search of mates just set a record for longest-known swim
Brothers Jacob and Tibu braved hungry hippos and crocodiles to make the crossing.
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Giant salamander species found in what was thought to be an icy ecosystem
Found after its kind were thought extinct, and where it was thought to be too cold.
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Frozen mammoth skin retained its chromosome structure
Features as small as 50 nanometers preserved in a 50,000-year-old sample.
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To help with climate change, carbon capture will have to evolve
The technologies are useful tools but have yet to move us away from fossil fuels.
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NASA update on Starliner thruster issues: This is fine
“What we want to know is that the thrusters can perform," Starliner's pilot says.
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Congress apparently feels a need for “reaffirmation” of SLS rocket
Because I'm tall enough, I'm orange enough, and doggone it, Senators like me.
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Nearby star cluster houses unusually large black hole
Fast-moving stars imply that there's an intermediate-mass black hole there.
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Feds who forced Ukrainian investor to sell rocket company backtrack years later
"I hope you now are happy. History will judge all of you guys."
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New Antikythera mechanism analysis challenges century-old assumption
Physicists drew on statistical techniques used to analyze gravitational waves.
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Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.
Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise.
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Europe’s first Ariane 6 flight achieved most of its goals, but ended prematurely
Ariane 6 launched into orbit, but an upper stage problem kept it from completing the demo flight.
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Drug middlemen inflate US prices, squeeze out competition, FTC says
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are key part of US's high drug costs, report finds.
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Beryl is just the latest disaster to strike the energy capital of the world
It's pretty weird to use something I've written about in the abstract for so long.
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Why every quantum computer will need a powerful classical computer
Error-correcting a quantum computer can mean processing 100TB every second.