'Can you believe it?': SpaceX catches part of its Starship rocket on return to Earth
SpaceX has performed the historic catch using mechanical arms nicknamed "chopsticks".
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SpaceX has performed the historic catch using mechanical arms nicknamed "chopsticks".
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Amazon’s early Black Friday promos are already underway, and we’ll be highlighting some of our favorites over the next few days on our Shopping page. Among them is the Fanttik S1 Pro Cordless Electric Screwdriver, which is currently matching its all-time low of $39.99 ($40 off) at Amazon for a…
The Verge
Sufferin' succotash! The Monstars and Tune Squad interplanetary slam arrived 30 years ago, and it's still a clinic in interplanetary conflict resolution.
Space.com
Apple's smart glasses are among the worst-kept secrets in the tech world. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the company's first model, which will lack augmented reality features, will be announced at June's WWDC next year. They likely won't ship right away, however, with Gurman saying only that "glasses…
The Verge
When a cloud of atoms is cooled close to absolute zero, its atoms can merge into a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC): an exotic fluid in which atoms across the whole cloud share a single quantum state. Current theories predict that as a disordered quantum gas settles into this ordered state, a tangle…
Phys.org
Rachelle Hampton is a writer and co-owner at Defector Media, and the host of Normal Gossip, a podcast of anonymous listener-submitted stories about everyday drama. Whether that's lies about luxury wool in a literal knitting circle, the impeachment of a hypocritical HOA president, or a COVID…
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On Nov. 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. Here's why it mattered.
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Global temperatures may continue to rise even after human CO₂ emissions stop. The temperature change that follows is known as the zero emissions commitment (ZEC), and it is often assumed to be close to zero. A study led by the Met Office Hadley Center, with co-authors from several institutions…
Phys.org
President Trump is heading to Asia in a few days time, and will meet President Putin and President Xi. There's likely to be one fewer tech giants at the table, Jensen Huang, newly resigned from Nvidia, over the suspected spy affair.
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An international team of paleontologists, including researchers from McGill University, has discovered "remarkably large" rodent fossils in the pit of a mine in southern Thailand. The finding, published in Scientific Reports, provides a new perspective on the early manifestation of rodent…
Phys.org
"T CrB *will* erupt sometime soon. Everyone is very confident on this."
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The Nvidia scandal continues to unravel. Sunday, the Singapore-based company Megaspeed said that Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang had officially left the company in 2025. She is the alleged Chinese spy that had an affair with Nvidia's former CEO Jensen Huang. Late last year, revelations showed she…
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In the latest episode of Deja Vu, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor examine the latest model of disaster capitalism.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang poured money into open-source AI, from French-founded Hugging Face to chips for Mistral's data centres, and fought Washington's attempts to restrict it. With Huang gone and China hawks emboldened, Tech 24 asks whether Europe's AI ambitions have lost their most powerful ally…
France 24
Scientists have discovered that vitamin C may help prevent potentially cancer-causing chemicals from forming in the stomach after eating foods containing nitrates and nitrites. A new mathematical model suggests that taking vitamin C after meals could reduce these harmful reactions, offering a…
ScienceDaily
SpaceX's Starship successfully returned to its launchpad after orbiting in space.
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Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic connection to spinal degeneration and found that an existing osteoporosis drug can prevent damaging mineral buildup in zebrafish spines. The discovery could pave the way for new treatments that slow or prevent a major cause of chronic back pain.
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A recent reanalysis of the outsize black hole galaxy UHZ1 using existing X-ray data and new infrared observations challenges a previous groundbreaking claim. Three years ago, this galaxy made news for hosting an unusually massive and heavily dust-obscured black hole formed through direct collapse…
Phys.org
LG’s B6E was already one of the most affordable OLED TVs you could buy, but it’s an even better deal now that it’s included as part of Best Buy’s latest doorbuster event. Now through the end of today, November 15th, the 55-inch model is 50 percent off, dropping it to an all-time low of $699.99 […]
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In the 1990s, Sony was absolutely convinced that we were on the precipice of a robot takeover. Pretty soon, the company decided, we'd all be living among countless humanoid robots. Some would be our coworkers; others would be our friends; and at least one would be our pet. And "pet" was exactly…
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NASA scientists warn that the rapidly intensifying 2026 El Niño could surpass the historic 1997-98 event, which triggered devastating weather extremes around the world. Satellite data reveal striking similarities between the two, raising the possibility of major rainfall and flooding this winter…
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The strange, wildly tilted magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune have puzzled scientists since NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft explored the planets in the 1980s. New simulations suggest that extreme conditions deep inside these icy giants create unusual electrical properties that could explain their…
ScienceDaily
Indigenous farmer Banu Ismahasan walks through a golden field of tall stalks in southeastern Taiwan, harvesting by hand the grain heads of an ancient crop resistant to extreme weather.
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Fears for national college entrance exam next week as test taker admits sending photos of questions to AI tool The marks attained by the top scorer on South Korea’s national exam for aspiring tax accountants this year seemed too good to be true. On Sunday, sceptics were proven right when he…
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For a decade, the 1.5C goal has served as the north star of climate action, a line nations pledged to hold to avoid the worst ravages of a warming planet.
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Since 2022, astronomers have been puzzling over a new kind of cosmic object called long-period radio transients. These are objects that emit bright flashes of radio waves into space every few minutes to every few hours. Some have been traced back to binary systems consisting of a small, dim, cool…
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Astronomers have revealed three dense cores at different evolutionary stages within the massive star-forming region G40.282−0.219, shedding light on the physical and chemical differences among cores within the same massive dense clump.
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This summer, comet 220P/McNaught burst into life out of nowhere to become one of the year’s highlights for amateur astronomers.
Space.com
A surprising discovery from Rockefeller University suggests that a common amino acid could play a powerful role in protecting against cancer and viral infections. Scientists found that low arginine levels interfere with the immune system's ability to recognize dangerous cells, while increasing…
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COVID-19 lockdowns cut global fire activity by 12.3 percent.
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Governments, hospitals, courts scrambled by global Microsoft outage.
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As NASA's Voyager 1 probe reaches one light-day from Earth, we look back at its legendary photos of Jupiter that changed our view of the solar system.
Live Science
Ancient writers couldn't agree on how Egypt's last queen took her own life, and the famous snakebite story may owe more to her enemies than to the facts.
Live Science
The scale of the economic disruption caused by AI has led even conservative politicians to talk about universal basic income. But economists aren't convinced, and campaigners think we need to ask deeper questions.
DW
Johns Hopkins scientists have uncovered hidden warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease that may appear up to a decade before memory loss begins. Brain scans revealed that two regions involved in memory and emotion start shrinking before the hippocampus, the area doctors typically examine for signs of…
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A groundbreaking drone survey has revealed a startling split in the fate of New Zealand's endangered Erect-crested penguins. While one population has remained stable for decades, another has declined by more than 40%, apparently due to a combination of predators, worsening storms, and changing…
ScienceDaily
Dinosaurs may have been snacking on seaweed and other ocean foods more than 100 million years ago, according to surprising new evidence hidden in their fossilized teeth. Researchers discovered chemical signatures suggesting that coastal dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals relied partly on…
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Scientists have discovered how to use flashes of laser light to organize tiny electrical regions inside a crystal, solving a decades-old mystery about how the material behaves. The laser-induced alignment lasts just a trillionth of a second, but the breakthrough could open the door to new ways of…
ScienceDaily
ESA’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 ancient quasars, including two record-breaking objects that shone with the brightness of a trillion Suns when the Universe was just 670 million years old. Powered by supermassive black holes, these extraordinary cosmic beacons reveal a time when the…
ScienceDaily
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the center of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 million light-years away.
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