A tidy textbook definition of life has never existed, yet most biology lessons still lean on the idea that living things must grow, make energy, and reproduce on their own.
That simple checklist leaves viruses outside the club, since their…
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NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium
NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years.
The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery…
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Seeds of the cosmos: How a Pakistani engineer sent wheat into space – Pakistan
The test tube carrying the Pakistan-origin wheat seeds was aboard the SpaceX Dragon Capsule, which was launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre on August 1.
Space, as all Trekkies agree, is the final frontier. It is mysterious,…
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Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois. He was 97 years old.
Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
In a…
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A Developer’s Guide to OpenAI’s GPT-5 Model Capabilities
In this tutorial, we’ll explore the new capabilities introduced in OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5. The update brings several powerful features, including the Verbosity parameter, Free-form Function Calling, Context-Free Grammar…
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This Startup Aims To Grow New Mini-Organs In Patients
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the U.K.’s first space launch license, growing mini-organs instead of transplanting them, nuclear reactors on the Moon and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.
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New wearable blood pressure patch offers hospital-grade accuracy
According to the World Health Organization, high blood pressure affects more than 1.3 billion people around the globe, yet only about one in five manage it effectively.
The condition, often called a “silent killer,” raises the risk of…
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There’s a hot rock blob under New Hampshire. It could be why the Appalachian Mountains are standing tall
There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been slowly moving and is on course for New…
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Cloudflare vs Perplexity: The Battle Over AI Web Scraping Heats Up
Reading through Cloudflare’s detailed exposé and the extensive media coverage, the controversy surrounding Perplexity AI’s web scraping practices is deeper — and more polarizing — than it first appears. Cloudflare…
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Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at age 97
Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday. He was 97.
Apollo 13, a 1970 flight to the moon, became known as a “successful failure” after the spacecraft experienced an oxygen tank…
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