New experiments finally prove a long-forgotten theory about how quantum particles spin
What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s…
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Turning the Moon into a fuel depot will take a lot of power
But, of course, you need to make the fuel there in the first place. The obvious…
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Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
That mission, and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar…
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From 900 miles away, the US government recorded audio of the Titan sub implosion
The waveform of the recording. From SOSUS to wind farms Back in the 1960s, 70s, and…
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OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert
OpenAI’s “deep research” is the latest artificial intelligence (AI) tool making waves and promising to do…
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22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold
Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical campus…
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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities
Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing…
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Taking the ‘forever’ out of ‘forever chemicals’: we worked out how to destroy the PFAS in batteries
Clearly, the battery recycling rate must improve. This is where everyday people can help. In the…
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Best Linux Tools for AI Development in 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, from healthcare and finance to creative fields like art…
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Political donations data show who’s funding whom in Australia – but they are coming out far too late
As federal parliament reconvenes this week, the pre-election buzz is palpable. When will the election be…
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It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite
These actions followed pre-established protocols. However, it highlighted the small but non-zero risk of rocket debris…
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To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
The third neural net was relatively simple and processed language using vectorized representations of those “move…
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16 Top Python Hacks for Data Scientists to Improve Productivity
As a data scientist, you likely spend a lot of your time writing Python code, which…
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Even as the tide turned for fur, crocodile leather kept selling in high-end fashion. But for how much longer?
Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins…
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CrowdStrike Researchers Explore Contrastive Learning to Enhance Detection Against Emerging Malware Threats
CrowdStrike research shows that contrastive learning improves supervised machine learning results for PE (Portable Executable) malware…
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‘A mini climate-control system’: the tech behind sportswear at the Australian Open
When a tennis player serves at 200km/h in 30°C heat, their clothing isn’t just fabric. It…
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Earth is bombarded with rocks from space – but who gets to keep these ultimate antiques?
Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the…
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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time…
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Despite fears of falling trust in expert knowledge, a global survey shows New Zealanders value science highly
Five years since the start of the COVID pandemic, it can feel as if trust in…
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Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste
“When we used the flow fiber photometry method to look into the brains of mice, we…
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Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants?
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate,…
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A solid electrolyte gives lithium-sulfur batteries ludicrous endurance
The iodine turned out to be a critical component. While the exchange of electrons with sulfur…
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Why is one half of Mars so different to the other? ‘Marsquakes’ may have just revealed the answer
Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy,…
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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science missions for SpaceX, said it made sense to pair the…
