Japan has switched on the first quantum computer that has been designed and built with components from the country. The system is now ready to take on workloads from its base at the University of Osaka’s Center for Quantum Information and…
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The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism
In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a hundred different US military installations. A lack of coordination or even clarity from the White House, Pentagon or US intelligence community has led some in domestic law…
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Scientists switch on the world’s largest neutrino detector deep underground
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) has successfully completed filling its 20,000-tons liquid scintillator detector and begun data taking on Aug. 26. After more than a decade of preparation and construction, JUNO is the first of…
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Like Reagan, Trump is slashing US environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact
When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he was sending “a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change…
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Like Reagan, Trump is slashing environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact
When the Trump administration announced it was moving to eliminate dozens of U.S. climate policies, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said he was sending “a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change…
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Satellite constellations fall short of meeting brightness goals
WASHINGTON — Developers of large satellite constellations say it may be impossible to meet brightness goals established by astronomers to minimize the impact of those satellites on their constellations.
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Pig Lung Transplanted Into a Human in Major Scientific First : ScienceAlert
A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of xenotransplantation.
Over the course of the experiment, the…
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Are We Getting Closer To A Broader Cure For HIV?
Timothy Ray Brown, known as the “Berlin Patient” and the first person to have been cured of HIV, pictured in 2012.
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Since the landmark stem cell transplantation which saw Timothy Ray Brown become the first person to be cured of HIV in…
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How Many Planets Orbit Our Nearest Neighboring Star?
Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing…
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10 Useful NumPy One-Liners for Time Series Analysis
Working with time series data often means wrestling with the same patterns over and over: calculating moving averages, detecting spikes, creating features for forecasting models.
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