When people talk face to face, nearly half of their attention is drawn to the movement of the lips. Despite this, robots still have great difficulty moving their mouths in a convincing way. Even the most advanced humanoid machines often rely on…
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Tiny titans of recovery: Fossil burrows reveal resilient micro-ecosystem after global mass extinction
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global mass extinction.
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AO-Resistant Material Boosts VLEO Satellite Longevity
Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, specializes in advanced materials and optical coatings. For over 20 years, they’ve been producing their Sunshade® thermal control material, which is…
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The key to the UK’s AI success lies in closing the skills gap
The UK’s ambition to become a global AI superpower is being stifled by a widening skills gap, undermining its potential in research and innovation. Recent data revealed that 73% of UK workers have had no formal AI training, despite two-thirds…
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The First Law of Thermodynamics Has Been Rewritten
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
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The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long failed to describe systems that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium.
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The work could have applications in fields ranging from circuitry and quantum…
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Why There’s No Single Best Way To Store Information
Just as there’s no single best way to organize your bookshelf, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to storing information.
Consider the simple situation where you create a new digital file. Your computer needs to rapidly find a place…
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Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals
Seti@home / Getty / Futurism For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence…
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A long-lost tectonic fragment may be shaking Northern California
An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum stuck to a shoe.
Using abundant, tiny, nearly imperceptible…
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Out of This World Discoveries: Space Station Research in 2025
As Earth completed its orbit around the Sun to close out 2025, the International Space Station circled our planet more than 5,800 times. Serving as humanity’s unique laboratory in space, the station has hosted thousands of experiments and…
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Jupiter has more oxygen than the sun, new simulations reveal
Deep beneath Jupiter’s stormy skies lies a crucial clue to how all the planets in our solar system formed.
In a new study, scientists used advanced computer models to peer beneath Jupiter’s dense swirling cloud tops and tackle a question that…
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