A potentially habitable planet, eerily similar to Earth, has been discovered after two decades of painstaking astronomical research. Identified as GJ 251 c, this exoplanet lies within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf and could host…
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Invisible, Skyscraper-Sized Waves Found to Be “Eating Away” at Greenland’s Glaciers
Scientists have uncovered how massive underwater waves triggered by iceberg calving secretly fuel glacier melt in Greenland. Iceberg calving takes place when large sections of ice detach from the edges of glaciers and plunge into the ocean. This…
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Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons
“Other authors point out that symbolic and utilitarian functions are intimately linked among traditional populations,” wrote D’Errico and his colleagues, “and that, as a result, it would have been difficult for a…
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Astronomers capture vast cosmic bat spreading its wings in time for Halloween (photo)
The outline of a nebula bat formed from glowing interstellar clouds (Image credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2) Astronomers have captured the glowing “wings” of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in deep space about 10,000 light-years…
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How to Build an End-to-End Data Engineering and Machine Learning Pipeline with Apache Spark and PySpark
!pip install -q pyspark==3.5.1 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession, functions as F, Window from pyspark.sql.types import IntegerType, StringType, StructType, StructField, FloatType from pyspark.ml.feature import StringIndexer,...Continue Reading
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This tiny bat hunts like a lion, but better
Researchers from Aarhus University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have found that small bats can rival lions in hunting efficiency, and sometimes even surpass them.
To observe how fringe-lipped bats (Trachops cirrhosus),…
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Science history: Astronomers spot first known planet around a sunlike star, raising hopes for extraterrestrial life — Nov. 1, 1995
Quick facts
Milestone: Discovery of a Jupiter-size planet around a distant, sunlike star
When: Nov. 1, 1995
Where: Haute-Provence Observatory, France
Who: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
In September 1994, a pair of Swiss astronomers at a little…
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The Universe Just Sent Us a Spooky Bat Signal
A ghostly “cosmic bat” nebula, glowing red with newborn stars, has been captured by ESO’s telescope in Chile. Just in time for Halloween, astronomers have captured the image of a bat-like figure soaring across the night sky over the…
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Astronomers capture a spooky “cosmic bat” in deep space
Right in time for Halloween, astronomers have spotted what looks like a flying bat soaring above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile. Using its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) captured a vast cloud…
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AI Is Learning to Be Selfish, Study Warns
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that certain AI models can develop self-seeking behavior. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science suggests that as artificial intelligence systems become…
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