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James Webb Space Telescope sees comet-seeding crystals flowing far from newborn star (photo)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve....

6hSpace.comScience

Sinking ice on Jupiter's moon Europa may be slowly feeding its ocean the ingredients for life

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the prospects of extraterrestrial life in its ocean."...

3dSpace.comScience

Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts

Article URL: https://www.lr.org/en/knowledge/press-room/press-listing/press-release/2026/alarm-overload-is-undermining-safety-at-sea-as-new-research-shows-crews-face-tens-of-thousands-of-daily-alerts/...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Launch HN: Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance

Hi HN! We're Kamran, Raaid, Laith, and Omeed from Constellation Space. We built an AI system that predicts satellite link failures before they happen ( https://youtu.be/069V9fADAtM ). Between us, we'v...

4dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

I'm a professional organizer. Helping my 89-year-old mom downsize was emotionally brutal.

Regina Lark helped her 89-year-old mom declutter. Courtesy of Regina Lark Regina Lark owns an organizing business that often works with older adults. Last year, she helped her mom downsize from a home...

8hBusiness Insiderreal_estateImpact

Past nuclear weapon tests linked to 4 million premature deaths globally, report says

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least 4 million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into the ...

4dSouth China Morning PostScienceImpact

Ancient ice’s secrets can give us a look into the future

The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate...

5dFinancial TimesScienceImpact

Show HN: High speed graphics rendering research with tinygrad/tinyJIT

I saw a tweet that tinygrad is so good that you could make a graphics library that wraps tg. So I’ve been hacking on a gtinygrad, and honestly it convinced me it could be used for legit research. The ...

4dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert

It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...

Jan 15Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

This is the sharpest view ever seen of a black hole's dusty disk

"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...

Jan 19Space.comScience

A colossal asteroid may have warped the moon from the inside out

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different....

3dSpace.comScience

Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age,study finds

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-dinosaur.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683969 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...

Jan 19Hacker NewsScienceImpact

Can leucovorin treat autism? History says, probably not

Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's little evidence the drug will help. (Image credit: Inna Kot/iStock)...

4dNPR NewsHealthImpact

How bringing back a humble algae to Arctic waters makes all the difference

For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful....

6dDeutsche Welleenvironment

'Stranger Things' and 5 other places Einstein-Rosen Bridges have wormed their way into sci-fi

From the Upside Down through the Devil's Anus and beyond. Here are 6 times these theoretical wormholes turned up in sci-fi shows and movies....

Jan 12Space.comEntertainment

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

Article URL: https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198 Points: 5 #...

1dHacker NewsenvironmentImpact

Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-massive-medieval-cargo-ship-thats-the-largest-vessel-of-its-kind-ever-found-180987984/ Comments URL: https:...

Jan 15Hacker NewsScienceImpact

SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

Article URL: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/ Comments URL: http...

Jan 16Hacker NewsScienceImpact

Show HN: NukeCast – If it happened today, where would the fallout go

I built NukeCast because I’ve always wanted a tool that answers one question fast. If it happened today, where would the fallout plumes go and where would you drive to get out of it. NukeCast uses wea...

19hHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Send Help Review

Send Help opens in theaters on January 30. I’m really shooting myself in the foot here, but I feel compelled to open with a statement which itself constitutes a fulsome review of Send Help, and I’d to...

6hIGNEntertainmentImpact
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