The 26.4 update is the first to begin testing encryption for RCS messages. But as with the initial RCS rollout, Apple is moving slowly and deliberately: for now, encrypted RCS messaging only works when texting between Apple…
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Cultured beef shows mixed allergy risks in early food safety study
As cultured meat moves toward commercialization, people want to understand how it impacts health compared to conventional animal meat. So, researchers publishing in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry conducted an…
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Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power
Ask anyone what Nvidia makes, and they’re likely to first say “GPUs.” For decades, the chipmaker has been defined by advanced parallel computing, and the emergence of generative AI and the resulting surge in demand for GPUs has been a boon…
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Mantle plume vs. plate tectonics: Basalt cores reshape the North Atlantic breakup debate
About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth’s mantle reached the ocean floor as the crust stretched and thinned,…
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Notes from the Field – NASA Science
By Compton “Jim” Tucker
NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasn’t always the case.
“I love using satellite data to study the Earth,” says Dr. Compton “Jim” Tucker. When Tucker was a graduate…
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Amazon villages build autonomous energy systems after mega-dam failed pledges
When Brazil approved the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric complex on the Xingu River, in Pará state, the megaproject promised to profoundly change the national and local energy landscapes, creating a large offer of clean energy to…
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Why negativity can motivate founders: Study links doubts to greater persistence
A new study finds entrepreneurs become more committed to their business ventures when they are told they will fail, increasing their efforts to make those businesses successful. “Most entrepreneurs—people who start their own…
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Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres
Strains and media
Strains used are listed in Supplementary Table 2 and plasmids in Supplementary Table 3. Strains and plasmids are available on request. Hanseniaspora strains were grown in standard rich medium (YPD; yeast extract, peptone,…
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Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences
One of the strangest stories in contemporary statecraft refuses to go away.
New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that a Norwegian government scientist has been secretly working on a pulse-energy weapon, an approximation of the fabled…
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See the moon’s shadow darken Antarctica in epic satellite imagery of the Feb. 17 solar eclipse (video)
Satellites have captured incredible views of the Feb. 17 annular solar eclipse as the moon’s shadow swept across a remote region of Antarctica, while at the same time a U.S. weather satellite captured the silhouette of Earth’s satellite as it…
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