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Enlarge / Europe’s first Ariane 6 rocket lifts off from a new launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. (credit: Jody Amiet/AFP via Getty Images) Welcome to Edition 7.12 of the Rocket Report! For once, a week with not all that…
PFAS — also known as forever chemicals — are thousands of fluorine-rich compounds. And these human-made chemicals can be found everywhere. They’re in school uniforms, food packaging, cosmetics and personal care products. They seep into our food and drinking water.…
AI development is accelerating — with some scientists suggesting machines will be more intelligent than the smartest humans within the next few years.
New research suggests that black holes may actually be “frozen stars,” bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black hole physics.
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain, when damaged, may influence the likelihood of developing religious fundamentalism. By analyzing patients with focal brain lesions, researchers found that damage…
Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.
Enlarge / Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma and Virendra Sachdeva, two members of Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP party, celebrate the landing of India’s Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon on August 23, 2023. (credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin) A mistrial was declared today in the trial of former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza, who was accused of bribing a powerful state lawmaker’s ally in order to obtain legislation favorable to AT&T’s…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A coalition of law-enforcement agencies said it shut down a service that facilitated the unlocking of more than 1.2 million stolen or lost mobile phones so they could be used by someone other than their rightful…
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) LinkedIn admitted Wednesday that it has been training its own AI on many users’ data without seeking consent. Now there’s no way for users to opt out of training that has already occurred,…
