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Enlarge / The USS Manchester. Just the spot for a Starlink dish. (credit: Department of Defense) It’s no secret that government IT can be a huge bummer. The records retention! The security! So government workers occasionally take IT into their…
The silver coin discoveries date to the Roman Republic and are from the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia.
You may have seen some new ways to describe when someone is autistic and also has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The terms “AuDHD” or sometimes “AutiADHD” are being used on social media, with people describing what they experience or have…
Enlarge / High pressure ices near the crust are a feature of water-rich worlds.` (credit: Benoit Gougeon (University of Montreal)) The possibility that there is liquid water on an exoplanet’s surface usually flags it as “potentially habitable,” but the reality…
Enlarge / BMW has had some hydrogen fuel cell-powered iX5s in testing for a while, and for Art Basel 2024 this one got a new look courtesy of Es Devlin. (credit: Enes Kucevic/BMW) Today, BMW announced that it will start…
Enlarge (credit: Marc Piasecki / Contributor | Getty Images Entertainment) Elon Musk’s X has won its appeal on free speech grounds to block AB 587, a California law requiring social media companies to submit annual reports publicly explaining their controversial…
A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being “pierced” with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun’s “magic arts to…
New James Webb Space Telescope results have revealed that there may not be a Hubble tension after all. But contradictions within the findings point to a deeper mystery.
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice can affect the amount of medication that reaches the bloodstream. But why?
A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior sheds new light on the link between makeup use and personality traits among women. The research found that women who use more makeup tend to score higher in traits such…
