Shimmering like spun gold, sea silk fabric is so lustrous that some believe it inspired the Greek legends of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece. For centuries, artisans in the Mediterranean have passed down the art of spinning the…
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An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU
The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco-based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units.
Instead of being trained on text, the system is based on…
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How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer was lost before reaching the Moon
The small satellite was to map lunar water, but operators lost contact with the spacecraft the day after launch and were unable to recover the mission.
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer ended its mission to the Moon on July 31. Despite extensive efforts,…
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Remains of British man who died in Antarctica found in melting glacier 66 years later
The remains of a British meteorologist who died in Antarctica 66 years ago have been…
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Two Workers Die in Helicopter Crash on Ameren Illinois Power Line Project
Two construction crew members working on Ameren Illinois transmission lines were killed Aug. 7 when their Hughes 369D helicopter struck an overhead line and crashed onto a docked barge on the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill., authorities…
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One-Of-A-Kind Jurassic Sea Creature With Enormously “Long Neck” Discovered After Nearly 50 Years in Museum Storage
A study published in PeerJ by paleontologists Sven Sachs and Daniel Madzia has reclassified a nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton found in 1978 in Holzmaden, Germany, as a new genus and species. Named Plesionectes longicollum, this Early…
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AI model can design optimal drug candidates without any prior molecular data
Traditional drug development methods involve identifying a target protein (e.g., a cancer cell receptor) that causes disease, and then searching through countless molecular candidates (potential drugs) that could bind to that…
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Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Drinking Water from the Depths
From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have experienced water shortages recently. And in the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly outpace supply, according to a United…
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Smallsat maker NOVI expands into remote sensing
WASHINGTON — Small-satellite maker NOVI is expanding into the remote sensing market, announcing plans to launch two satellites capable of processing Earth observation data in orbit.
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NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Moon Mission Lost Just a Day After Launch
Lunar Trailblazer was set to map the Moon’s water in unprecedented detail but was lost after a communications failure soon after launch. Global tracking efforts failed to revive it, yet its technology and lessons learned will aid future…
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