An mRNA vaccine protected mice against deadly intestinal C. difficile bacteria
An mRNA vaccine that targets several aspects of C. difficile’s ability to cause severe disease prevented major symptoms and death in mice.
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‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse blazes over Easter Island in incredible new image
On Oct. 2, a partial “ring of fire” solar eclipse was visible from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, where around 1,000 stone moai statues stand. You can see the whole celestial event play out…
Social media connectedness, Trump endorsements, and GOP outcomes in 2022 Senate races
A study published in the Journal of Political Marketing sheds light on the relationship between online social networks and voting behavior. The analysis of Republican Twitter users during the 2022 U.S. Senate elections found that individuals in tightly connected social…
Bazzite is the next best thing to SteamOS while we wait on Valve
I was on vacation last week, the kind of vacation in which entire days had no particular plan. I had brought the ROG Ally X with me, and, with the review done and Windows still annoying me, I looked around…
ULA hasn’t given up on developing a long-lived cryogenic space tug
The second flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket, planned for Friday morning, has a primary goal of validating the launcher’s reliability for delivering critical US military satellites to orbit. Tory Bruno, ULA’s chief executive, told reporters Wednesday that he…
AI doesn’t abolish right to roast gov’t, judge blocking Calif. deepfake law says
Upholding the First Amendment, a senior US district judge has blocked California’s deepfakes law, AB 2839, which was designed to stop deceptive AI-generated content from impacting election outcomes. Last month, a parody video creator known as “Mr Reagan” on YouTube…
We’re one step closer to finding out why Siberia is riddled with exploding craters
A new physical model suggests meltwater from thawing permafrost on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula can unlock methane sources at depth, triggering explosions that open enormous craters at the surface.
New NASA images reveal giant hole in Curiosity rover’s wheel after 12 years of ‘abuse’ on Mars
Images captured by Curiosity’s onboard cameras show several large tears in the tire of one of the rover’s wheels. However, the damage does not appear to be slowing the roaming robot down.
Medieval walrus ivory may reveal trade between Norse and Indigenous Americans hundreds of years before Columbus, study finds
The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.
Scientists trained AI to talk people out of conspiracy theories — and it worked surprisingly well
New research published in Science shows that for some people who believe in conspiracy theories, a fact-based conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can “pull them out of the rabbit hole”. Better yet, it seems to keep them out…
