- After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and controlled…
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Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management
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These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
Devices (artist’s illustration) kept aloft by sunlight could take sensors into an understudied layer of the atmosphere.Credit: Schafer et al. Nature (2025)
Theory and mathematics said his device would fly. But Ben Schafer was still pleasantly…
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Is Your Quantum Computer Faking It? Physicists Unveil a “Quantum Lie Detector”
A new test confirms deep quantum behavior in large-scale systems, including multipartite correlations. Is it possible to verify whether a large quantum system genuinely follows the unusual principles of quantum mechanics, or merely appears to do…
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Drones and AI Revolutionize Corn Health Monitoring
How can artificial intelligence (AI) and drones help boost corn yields? This is what a recent study published in Smart Agricultural Technology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated novel…
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CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation
Space Safety 12/08/2025
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44 likesEarth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With over 11 000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years as well as over 1.2…
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Eerie NASA photo is still freaking people out 40 years later
The number of people reaching space has been growing, partially thanks to the likes of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
As of March 2025, 721 people have reached the altitude of space, according to the USAF definition; ‘a place where the laws of…
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NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft fuels up and moves closer to launch
The Orion spacecraft flying humanity’s next crewed mission to the moon has completed propellant loading and is headed to the next phase of launch preparations.
Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, moved the newly-fueled Orion…
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These Two Ancient Human Species Lived in Tandem Around 2.8 Million Years Ago
The period between 3 million and 2 million years ago was a transformative time in human history — it was back then that the genus Australopithecus led to the genus Homo, a new branch in the hominin family tree. But Australopithecus didn’t…
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