A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award
Wired
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
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These ‘clinically tested’ gummies may or may not help you poop
The Verge
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Influencer after influencer sa…
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The First Proper ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Trailer Is a ’90s Anime Fever Dream
Gizmodo.com
Science Saru finally showed off real footage for 'The Ghost in the Shell,' and it looks beautiful in motion as it does in stills.
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‘Flying Cars’ Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer
Wired
The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and "eVTOLs" up and running around the country—even if they're not fully FAA-certified.
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A Long Lost ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Episode Has Finally Been Found
Gizmodo.com
Thanks to a garage sale, the 'Star Force' episode from the earliest days of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' is online for all to see.
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'Breaking my ankle led me to fashion career'
BBC News
A Manchester fashion student set up fashion label Recondition combining accessibility and style.
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Why Project Hail Mary’s creators were ‘scared’ about making the sci-fi adaptation
The Verge
Project Hail Mary is a natural follow-up to The Martian. Both movies are based on sci-fi novels by Andy Weir, and both have bankable stars in the lead role (Matt Damon for The Martian, Ryan Gosling for Project Hail Mary) and accomplished directors at the helm…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang are part of Trump’s new ‘tech panel’
The Verge
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin will be the first four members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), according to the Wall Street Journal. The p…
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Ryan Gosling on bringing humour to sci-fi adventure Project Hail Mary
BBC News
The Canadian actor stars as a science teacher turned astronaut in sci-fi film Project Hail Mary.
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ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer
The Verge
When an Australian tech entrepreneur with no background in biology or medicine said ChatGPT helped save his dog from cancer, the story couldn't help but spread. It's the kind of validation Big Tech has long craved: proof that AI will revolutionize medicine an…
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'Memory of a generation': China mourns the sudden death of a controversial education influencer
BBC News
The divisive 41-year-old was among the country's most prominent influencers.
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Higgs Boson breakthrough was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts
BBC News
Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.
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Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly
The Verge
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. We'll be taking a break next week and will back March 20t…
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Historian Finds Copy of 16th-Century Astronomy Textbook—Belonging to Galileo
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The renowned physicist, mathematician, and philosopher would later reject the ideas presented in this very book.
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This Fungus Can Make Water Freeze
Gizmodo.com
Fungi may be the real-life superheroes of the natural world.
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A Clever Software Patch Gave This Ice Satellite a Wild New Trick
Gizmodo.com
A software upgrade allowed CryoSat to monitor disturbances caused by a geomagnetic storm.
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Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Wired
Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, plans to prove it.
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The Deceptively Tricky Art of Designing a Steering Wheel
Wired
Veteran designers in the auto industry—and Jony Ive—tell us how hard it is to make a functional yet beautiful steering wheel.
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Saatva HD Mattress Review: A Solution for Heavy-Bodied Sleepers
Wired
With latex, coils, and a thoughtful build, the Saatva HD tackles a problem the industry often ignores.
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Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded
The Verge
SpaceX says it lost contact with a Starlink satellite after suffering an "anomaly." SpaceX isn't saying exactly what happened, but space-tracking company Leo Labs says it "immediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity" of Starlink 34343 after the event…
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NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission
The Verge
NASA's Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening. The Artemis II mission, part of NASA's Artemis program that's intended to bring humans back on…
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Corsair Sabre V2 Carbon Fiber and Magnesium Gaming Mice Review
Wired
It is worth using motorsports materials in a gaming mouse? As long as it's the same price as plastic.
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Wall Street Is Already Betting on Prediction Markets
Wired
As the legal war over how to regulate prediction markets rages on, financial institutions are embracing the industry anyway.
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Technology Is Reshaping Sleep Apnea Treatment
Wired
For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus.
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ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns
Wired
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.
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Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now
The Verge
Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, …
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A new manufacturing process uses lasers to seal paper packaging instead of glue
The Verge
Although paper is a more environmentally friendly packaging material than plastic, it's often contaminated with additives, such as adhesives used to create a secure seal. That complicates the recycling process and reduces the quality of recycled paper. Now, G…
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A ‘Lord of the Rings’ Star Could Join ‘The Batman, Part II’
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Plus, 'A Quiet Place, Part III' sets its cast.
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The Author Behind ‘The Social Network’ Has an Asteroid Movie Coming Out
Gizmodo.com
'The Last Orbit,' written by Ben Mezrich, will hit the screen directed by 'Fantastic Four' helmer Matt Shakman.
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This ‘Star Trek Online’ Trailer Is Actually a Killer ‘Enterprise’ Documentary
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The long-running 'Trek' MMO is celebrating multiple anniversaries in style, with a documentary tribute to the early days of interstellar exploration.
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Steven Spielberg Thinks Aliens Are Real, and Wants to Hang With Them
Gizmodo.com
With 'Disclosure Day' on the horizon, Spielberg wants everyone to know he's real believer when it comes to aliens.
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The end of the content shortage
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You can be fashionable without reading Vogue. You can be informed without watching the nightly news. You can be smart about science without going to MIT. It’s possible to be a great chef without buying a cookbook. In fact, you can probably thrive without read…
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This is not a fly uploaded to a computer
The Verge
Last week, a few posts about a so-called virtual "embodied fly" tore through X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn't seem to understand what it was they were excited about. The videos came from San Francisco-based Eon Systems, which s…
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ChatGPT's Latest Homework Help Tool Will Show How Math and Science Concepts Work
CNET
OpenAI added help for more than 70 different math and science concepts in algebra, physics and geometry.
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What is RFK doing to vaccines for children in America?
BBC News
Trump’s Health Secretary hits a major setback to “Make America Healthy Again”
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William Shatner Celebrates 95th Birthday, Smokes Cigar, Revisits 'Rocket Man' and Tests X Money
Slashdot.org
It was 60 years ago when William Shatner — born in 1931 — portrayed Captain Kirk in the TV series Star Trek. Shatner turns 95 today — and celebrated by posting a picture of himself smoking a cigar. "At 95, I'm still smokin'!" Shatner joked, adding that in l…
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The Moon Has Far Less Water Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests
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A recent search for water ice has turned up empty, casting doubt on the abundance of the valuable resource on the lunar surface.
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A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format
Gizmodo.com
Data storage? Yes! A replacement for printed menus? No!
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Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92
Slashdot.org
Tony Hoare, the Turing Award-winning pioneer who created the Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logic, and advanced theories of concurrency and structured programming, has died at age 92. News of his passing was shared today in a blog post. The site I Pro…
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The 19th Century Silent Film That First Captured a Robot Attack
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The Library of Congress has restored Gugusse et l'Automate, an 1897 short by Georges Melies that likely features the first robot ever shown on film. Long thought lost, the reel was discovered in a box of decaying nitrate films donated from a Michigan family c…
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What Will ‘The Scream’ Look Like in 300 Years? This Tool Simulates Its Future
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The tool is at the moment a proof-of-concept but could expand in the future to become a valuable tool for researchers and conservators.
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That McDonald’s Robot Video Isn’t What It Looks Like
Gizmodo.com
"The robots were not involved in any service or operational functions."
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China’s New 5-Year Plan: More AI, Less US
Gizmodo.com
Maybe it really is the dawning of the Chinese Century.
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Hubble Was Watching This Comet When the Coolest Thing Happened
Gizmodo.com
C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do.
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Researchers Say AI Is Homogenizing Human Expression and Thought
Gizmodo.com
For a "large" language model, the diversity of outputs is pretty small.
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The Stupidest Glitch Imaginable Killed a $72 Million Lunar Mission in a Single Day
Gizmodo.com
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite was supposed to map water across the surface of the Moon, but glaring design and testing errors killed it.
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Solar-Eclipsing Probe Back From the Dead After a Month of Silence
Gizmodo.com
An anomaly caused ESA's Proba-3 to ghost ground control, but now the spacecraft has finally made contact.
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Watch First Video Evidence of Sperm Whales Headbutting Each Other
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The researchers aren't sure yet why exactly, but the whales do seem to be having a good time.
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Those in technical or vocational programs were most likely to change their majors, according to a new survey from Gallup and Lumina Foundation.
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These Are the 4 Artemis II Astronauts Leading the Historic Return to the Moon
Wired
The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.
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NASA wants to put a $20 billion base on the Moon
The Verge
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has big plans for the future of the agency, including the construction of a $20 billion lunar base that he said will establish an "enduring presence" on the Moon. Isaacman announced the news during NASA's Ignition event on Tu…
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Designing A Pen Clip That Never Bends Out Of Shape
Hackaday
If you’ve ever used a ballpoint pen with a clip on the top, you’ve probably noticed they bend pretty easily. The clip relies on you only bending it a small amount to clip it on to thing…
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FDA finds little evidence that a generic drug can help people with autism
Yahoo Entertainment
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a generic medication for a rare brain disorder, while walking back suggestions by President Donald Trump...
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'Project Hail Mary' Review: Ryan Gosling Space Epic Is an Instant Sci-Fi Classic
CNET
Ryan Gosling shines in the first great sci-fi movie of the year.
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In a thunderous launch, Artemis II astronauts leave Earth. Here's what's next
NPR
NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully launched on a mission that will take it around the moon and back to Earth. Here's what to expect over their roughly 10-day journey.
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Business Insider
Handshake AI contractors from niche industries were directed to create tasks that reflect real work, like animal husbandry.
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Stand Up for Science will hold second rally against Trump administration
Scientific American
Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration
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How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to the big screen
Scientific American
Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Miller talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists
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Stand Up for Science protests spread to more than 50 cities
Scientific American
Speakers at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, D.C., criticized the politicization of science and cuts to research that serves the public
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'Project Hail Mary' Creator Andy Weir Just Taught Me a Surprising Thing About Sci-Fi
CNET
I spoke with Andy Weir about the adaptation of his hit novel, Project Hail Mary. Our conversation quickly turned into a mind-blowing lesson about science fiction.
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Ryan Gosling talks Project Hail Mary, hopeful science fiction and the challenge of portraying zero g
Scientific American
Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher turned (reluctant) astronaut in the upcoming film adaptation of Project Hail Mary, a science fiction novel by author Andy Weir
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It’s not easy to get depression-detecting AI through the FDA
The Verge
For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi has been developing AI designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from a person's speech. But after failing to secure FDA clearance in time, the company is shutting down and releasing mos…
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Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers
The Verge
Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protection pledge." It's one way they're responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech compani…
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Startup Pitches 'Brainless Clones' To Serve the Role of Backup Human Bodies
Slashdot.org
MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey "organ sacks": creating human "brainless clones" or replacement bodies for organs as part…
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The Octopus Penis Arm Doesn’t Just Deliver Sperm—It Sniffs Out the Sweet Spot
Gizmodo.com
The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found.
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Project Hail Mary Writer Apologizes For Calling Star Trek Shows ‘Shit’
Kotaku
Andy Weir made an ass of himself on a podcast and is trying to backpedal
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NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study Says
Gizmodo.com
With these new findings, researchers are closer than ever to validating a key planetary defense technique.
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‘Last of Us’ Spider Pretends to Be a Zombie Fungus—and It’s Bizarrely Brilliant
Gizmodo.com
A tour guide uncovered the morbid new species by mistake in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Hulu Assassinated the ‘Hitman’ TV Series This Week, Too
Gizmodo.com
Plus, 'Booster Gold' TV writer Paul Jenkins offers a vague update on those cancelation rumors.
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Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows
Gizmodo.com
A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life on our planet.
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Quantum Computers Will Tap Out Before Breaking Encryption, Theory Claims
Gizmodo.com
A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is.
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Scientists Just Used Some of Earth’s Worst Chemicals to Produce Battery-Grade Lithium
Gizmodo.com
A new method transforms a "persistent environmental liability" into a much-desired resource, the researchers say.
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2,000-Year-Old Graffiti in Egyptian Tombs Reveals an Unexpected Source of Ancient Tourists
Gizmodo.com
The ancient scribbles, written in Tamil, read, “Cikai Korran came here and saw.”
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Mars Doesn’t Have Enough Gravity to Keep Humans Healthy, Study Suggests
Gizmodo.com
An ISS-based study identified a key point of reduced gravity where mice begin to lose muscle. The threshold is well above the level of gravity on both Mars and the Moon.
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Why Lord and Miller Adapted ‘Project Hail Mary’ Before Andy Weir’s Second Book
Gizmodo.com
'Project Hail Mary' directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were previously attached to direct 'Artemis,' which came after Weir's 'The Martian.'
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BBC Inside Science
BBC News
Why men have nipples and how gravity slingshots work; your science questions answered.
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We Have Learned Nothing
Colossus.com
Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship. The Red Queen offers something better.
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I went hands-on with the Vivo X300 Ultra — this is a camera phone like no other
Android Central
Vivo just showcased the X300 Ultra at Mobile World Congress 2026, and I was able to use the device on the show floor. With even better cameras and a global release, the X300 Ultra may just be the camera phone of the year.
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Trump’s new science panel includes 9 tech billionaires—and just one scientist
Nature.com
There’s a glaring hole in the president’s new science and tech council
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Snøhetta and Hariri Pontarini Architects design revamped Ontario Science Centre
Dezeen
A scalloped design by Snøhetta and Canadian studio Hariri Pontarini Architects has been selected for the Ontario Science Centre on the Toronto waterfront as part of a wider, years-long redevelopment of the area. Clients Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Min…
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Laser Ranging Makes GPS Satellites More Accurate
Hackaday
Although GNSS systems like GPS have made pin-pointing locations on Earth’s sphere-approximating surface significantly easier and more precise, it’s always possible to go a bit further. The latest innovation involves …read more
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がんになると尿に変化。日本の研究チーム「トイレでがん検診」の扉を開く
Gizmodo.jp
image:generatedatwhisk尿でがんがわかる日が、また少し近づいた。そう感じさせる研究成果を日本の研究チームが発表しました。東京科学大学・東京大学・名古屋大学・東北大学・群馬大学・北海道大学・国立長寿医療研究センターの共同研究グループが、がん細胞由来の微小な粒子が尿へと排出されることを世界で初めて直接実証し、その経路を解明したと報告。成果は国際学術誌『ScienceAdvances
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BBC Inside Science
BBC News
Space warfare, space manufacturing and satellite data at Space Comm Expo
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Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
Bsky.app
Interviewer: What do you see as America’s unique advantages that other countries don’t have? Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO: America's unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump. [audience applauds]
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Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Scientific American
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
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16世紀の天文学書から「ガリレオ直筆のメモ」を発見
Gizmodo.jp
Image:NationalCentralLibraryofFlorenceルールは、破る前にまず習得せよ。歴史学者のイヴァン・マラーラ博士は、フィレンツェ国立中央図書館で16世紀に出版された天文学書『アルマゲスト』7冊を調査していました。ページをめくっていくとふと目に留まったのは、本の余白にびっちりと書き込まれためちゃくちゃ細かいラテン語の文字たち。この筆跡はもしや……。若き日のガリレオが残した
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Agnes Pockels’ pioneering work was unfairly dismissed by tropes about women’s domestic roles
Scientific American
Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes
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ChatGPT and Claude are evolving from chatbots into interactive learning tools
9to5Mac
This week, both Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT were updated to embrace learning through interactive visualizations. Both moves show how AI is evolving from the initial chatbot phase to something more mature and helpful. more…
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Superagers' 'Secret Ingredient' May Be the Growth of New Brain Cells
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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: According to a study of 38 adult human brains donated to science, superagers -- people who retain exceptional memory as they age -- have roughly twice as many immature neurons as their peers who age more ty…
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Gaming Site Editor Jailbreaks an Amazon Echo Show
Slashdot.org
"A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers," writes the co-founder of the gaming/tech news site Aftermath. For under $50 each, he bought some used versions of …
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Business Insider
LinkedIn's puzzlemaster crafts daily games designed to keep users coming back — and competing with their connections.
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Should You Be Taking Peptides?
Gizmodo.com
From GLP-1s to anti-aging cocktails, peptides are being widely marketed as wellness boosters. Here's what experts say you should know before you buy in.
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10 Essential Episodes of ‘The Orville’
Gizmodo.com
With Seth MacFarlane teasing a (hopeful) season four (someday), here are the must-watch episodes of his underrated sci-fi series.
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I studied in China twice, saving money on my education. I also found that Chinese education was more specialized and more focused on politics.
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Natalie Chiu and her husband are both scientists and embrace different ways of thinking. Knowing each other's strengths and weaknesses helped them grow the business.
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After years of writing about sleep advice, this unconventional trick finally gave me the sleep I craved.
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Business Insider
The move breaks with longstanding precedent. For more than a century, US banknotes carried the signatures of Treasury officials, not the president.
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