For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
“This reduction is spread across essentially all areas of the Lab including our technical, project, business, and support areas,” Leshin composed. “We have taken seriously the need to re-size our…
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What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?
For many years now, lots of AI market watchers have actually taken a look at the rapidly growing abilities of brand-new AI designs and mused about rapid efficiency increases continuing…
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Canada reports 1st local case of H5 bird flu
A teen in Canada tested positive for an H5 virus, which causes a type of bird flu. (Image credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) A hospitalized teen in…
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Extremely rare ‘failed supernova’ may have erased a star from the night sky without a trace
Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black hole. The supergiant star M31-2014-DS1, which has a mass 20 times greater…
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Physicists Find Evidence for Superfluidity in Low-Density Neutron Matter
A precise description of low-density nuclear matter is important for discussing the physics of neutron star crusts, according to a group of theoretical physicists led by Argonne National Laboratory’s Dr….
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Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986 was During Anomalous Solar Event, New Study Suggests
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped Uranus in 1986, it supplied researchers’ very first close glance of this ice-giant world. Together with the discovery of brand-new moons and rings, baffling…
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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Ankylosaurid Dinosaur
A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China. The artistic reconstruction of Huaxiazhoulong shouwen. Image credit:…
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Earth from space: Giant ‘phantom lake’ dotted with stripy gold islands shimmers in Australian outback
Oddly stripy, golden islands are littered across Lake Mackay in the Australian outback. When the ephemeral lake fills with water, these islands stand out against the blue-green background. (Image credit:…
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There are some things the Crew-8 astronauts aren’t ready to talk about
“I did not say I was uncomfortable talking about it. I said we’re not going to talk about it.” NASA astronaut Michael Barratt deals with a spacesuit inside the Quest…
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FTX sues Binance for $1.76B in battle of crypto exchanges founded by convicts
Claim looks for “at least $1.76 billion that was fraudulently transferred” by SBF. Previous Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao comes to federal court in Seattle for sentencing on Tuesday, April 30,…
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