UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
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Bad news for those hoping interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft as technosignature search turns up empty....
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Flu activity could continue to increase in the U.S. over the next few weeks, according to a top flu epidemiologist at the CDC....
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Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX After one of its Starlink satellites exploded and another narrowly avoided colliding with a Chinese satellite, SpaceX says it will lower...
I made a web game inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, where you get shown a 3D model of a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background i...
Led by only the second civilian the country has sent into space, China had started a series of experiments on board its Tiangong space station that could lead to the development of safer and more powe...
An HHS official says the agency has "frozen all child care payments" to the state of Minnesota after allegations of fraudulent day care centers there....
Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can responsibly use these bits of gray matter. (Image credit: Institut Pasteur-S...
China had fired rockets and deployed dozens of aircraft and naval vessels in exercises simulating a blockade of Taiwan's ports. Taipei condemned the drills as a threat to regional security....
Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09864-5 Fermionic currents of opposing chirality can be spatially filtered without the need for a magnetic field using the quantum ge...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see... https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size - https://news.ycombinator...
Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...
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The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals....