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The lone U.S. astronaut currently in space took a picture of NASA’s first rocket designed for a human moon mission in more than 50 years.
Artemis 2‘s rocket, called the Space Launch System, arrived at the launch pad Saturday (Jan. 17) — and…
Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak didn’t really work like Harry Potter’s, exhibiting limited…
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A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the…
Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job applicants a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff. But as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to keep candidates from simply…
Colorado State University has partnered with Microsoft to pilot a university-wide artificial intelligence system similar to ChatGPT that places the land-grant institution at the front of the pack in collaborations between higher education and AI…
Living walls—structures housing flowers and plants fitted to the outside of new and old buildings—can significantly enhance the biodiversity within urban environments, a new study has shown.
University of Queensland researchers say the discovery of a new stress reduction role for a naturally occurring molecule in the body could lead to new drugs and treatment for metabolic disorders and aging.
Blue Origin is targeting late February for the third launch of its mega-rocket, New Glenn. But it won’t be heading to the moon, as the company had previously suggested. The rocket will instead carry a satellite to low-Earth orbit for AST…
