In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Sara Alvarado, Executive Director for the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, known as SEDS, sits down with host David Ariosto.
In the conversation, Alvarado, shares insights on her…
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
On the library’s side, some people thought Ginsparg was too hands-on. Others said he wasn’t patient enough. A “good lower-level manager,” according to someone long involved with arXiv, “but his sense of management didn’t scale.” For…
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NASA Just Shot Rockets At The Northern Lights. This Is What Happened
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Two NASA rockets launched from Alaska on March 25, 2025, lit up the night sky with strange blue lights and white vapor trails to the backdrop of the Northern Lights. The spectacular display was visible across central and northern Alaska.
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Scientists Discovered An Amazing Practical Use For World’s Leftover Coffee Grounds : ScienceAlert
We could be producing concrete that’s 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia discovered.
Their clever recipe could solve multiple problems at the same time.
Every year the…
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Why are cars bigger in the U.S.? It’s not just cheap gas.
Americans, as you may have noticed, like to supersize things. Soda cans are bigger here, and so are hotel rooms, houses, and cars. Here in the U.S., giant pickup trucks and SUVs are the norm; visit any school at pickup time and you’re…
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5 of the Longest Gestation Periods in the Animal Kingdom
For humans, the gestation period can last forty weeks. There are cramps, morning sickness, strange food cravings, increasing discomfort, and a multitude of other effects. And the nine months of pregnancy is often just a prelude to the real drama….
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Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and debate among scientists
When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant balloon had inflated it from below.
It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear device hundreds of meters below…
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The Download: How people fall for pig butchering schemes, and saving glaciers
Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed.
Instead, he found himself trafficked into a business commonly known as “pig butchering”—a form of fraud in which scammers…
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Why Layer Health And Investors Believe It Can Solve Healthcare AI’s Scalability Challenge With A Fresh $21 Million
Layer Health cofounders Luke Murray, Monica Agrawal, Divya Gopinath, David Sontag, and Steven Horng
VALENCIAArtificial intelligence (AI) is enjoying its moment as the hottest area of venture investment, with more than $100 billion flowing…
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New AI Sees Gluten Damage Doctors Often Miss – And Diagnoses Celiac in Seconds
Cambridge scientists have developed a powerful AI tool that can diagnose celiac disease from biopsy images with over 97% accuracy. Trained on thousands of samples from diverse sources, the algorithm offers a faster, more reliable way to identify…
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