NASA’s Space Launch System — the rocket that will carry four astronauts to the moon for the first time in over fifty years — along with the Orion spacecraft, has been moved to its launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission, named…
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World’s first carbon-storing bridge locks away 146 pounds of CO2
Heijmans and climate tech company Paebbl have unveiled what they say is the world’s first bridge built using CO2-neutral concrete.
The pedestrian bridge, located in the Netherlands, shows that structural concrete can be produced without…
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AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team from Purdue…
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Innovative optical atomic clock could combine single-ion accuracy with multi-ion stability
For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years’ time, they could change the definition of the base unit second in…
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Climate Change May Have Led to the Demise of the Tang Dynasty
Climate change in recent years has fueled migration worldwide. Floods in Pakistan have forced millions from their homes, while the island nation of Kiribati’s entire existence is in doubt due to rising sea levels, according to NASA. A new study…
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Donated blood has a shelf life, and a new test tracks how it ages
A new, fast and easy test could revolutionize blood transfusions, giving blood centers and hospitals a reliable way to monitor the quality of red blood cells after they sit for weeks in storage.
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Astronauts say space station’s ultrasound machine was critical during medical crisis
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in “super handy” during the medical crisis.
During their first public appearance since returning to…
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IUCN launches group to conserve at-risk microbes vital to life on Earth
Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to planetary health. Yet the huge oversized roles these teeming biodiverse microbial communities play as a foundation for life on Earth is…
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AI Founder Daniel Nadler Is Twice As Rich After OpenEvidence Hits $12 Billion Valuation
Daniel Nadler, CEO and cofounder of OpenEvidence, an AI search tool for doctors, doubled his net worth to $7.6 billion after his startup raised additional capital at a $12 billion valuation.
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Three years ago, Daniel…
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Analog hardware may solve Internet of Things' speed bumps and bottlenecks
The ubiquity of smart devices—not just phones and watches, but lights, refrigerators, doorbells and more, all constantly recording and transmitting data—is creating massive volumes of digital information that drain energy and slow data…
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