Airplane passengers crossing the Indian Ocean who peered out their windows on Oct. 19, 2024, might have seen what looked like a fast-moving star suddenly flash and fade. Above their heads, a $500 million satellite was exploding.
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SpaceX scores $81.6 million Space Force contract to launch weather satellite
WASHINGTON — SpaceX has secured an $81.6 million contract to launch a U.S. military weather-monitoring satellite in 2027.
The contract for the mission designated USSF-178 was awarded on June 27 by the Space Systems Command and…
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Eggshell waste turned into sustainable ceramic glaze by Yale team
A New Haven ceramic artist and Yale University material scientist have teamed up to turn eggshells into a sustainable ingredient for ceramic glaze. The waste egg glaze, they found, is just as good as traditional glaze made from mined calcium…
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The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of breadbaskets.
More than one-third of the world’s wheat…
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US strikes delayed Iran’s nuclear ambition by years, confirms Tehran
U.S. and Iranian officials have now confirmed that Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been severely damaged following recent Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. The damage is so extensive that US intelligence agencies assert that Iran’s nuclear…
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The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
Before Duolingo wiped its videos from TikTok and Instagram in mid-May, social media engagement was one of the language-learning app’s most recognizable qualities. Its green owl mascot had gone viral multiple times and was well known to younger…
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Ask Ethan: What puzzles can the Vera Rubin Observatory help solve?
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A Ghostly Radio Halo Just Changed What We Know About the Early Universe
Astronomers using the LOFAR radio array have detected a vast “mini-halo” of high-energy particles around galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, whose light has traveled 10 billion years to reach us. The find doubles the previous distance record and shows…
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Astronomers crown the new “largest structure in the universe”
Move over, Shapley Superstructure; there’s a new champion in town. Astronomers have identified a cosmic filament of matter so vast that it stretches about 1.3 billion light-years – approximately 7.6 sextillion miles – from end to end.
They…
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MIT’s new AI outsmarts human design to help robots jump 41% higher
Scientists are using GenAI models to improve robotic designs and their motions. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) applied generative AI to create working robots. Recent diffusion-based approaches have…
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