In a new study, a team of astronomers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would be most detectable by an alien observer outside our Solar System and suggest that the…
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$85M Civil War History Museum Breaks Ground in Fayetteville, NC
Balfour Beatty and Varnedoe Construction recently broke ground on the final phase of The North Carolina Center on Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction in Fayetteville, N.C. The $85-million, 60,000-sq-ft facility is scheduled to complete in…
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To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Investigating Megaripples at ‘Kerrlaguna’
Written by Athanasios Klidaras, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University
On Mars, the past is written in stone — but the present is written in sand. Last week, Perseverance explored inactive megaripples to learn more about the…
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AI system slashes GPS errors almost 40 times in urban settings
Driving without GPS seems unthinkable, but a new Surrey AI system could spell its end.
Researchers at the University of Surrey have developed an artificial intelligence tool that pinpoints a device’s location even in dense urban areas where…
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Francis Scott Key Bridge Rebuild Plans Minor Course Change
Maryland transportation officials have proposed altering the route of Baltimore’s new Francis Scott Key Bridge in an effort to accelerate construction and limit environmental impacts.
Originally planned to occupy the Patapsco River footprint of…
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The first Americans had Denisovan DNA. And it may have helped them survive.
The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could have helped the earliest Americans fight…
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Webuild Lands $1.75B Contract for Italy High-Speed Rail
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), the Italian government’s railway infrastructure manager, has tapped a consortium led by Webuild to design and build the Paola–Cosenza section of the Salerno–Reggio Calabria high-speed line in a $1.75-billion…
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Brazil cities vow to stop buying threatened shark meat after Mongabay probe
Several government agencies in southern Brazil have said they will stop ordering angelshark meat for public meal programs, in response to a Mongabay investigation that highlighted…
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These New Orleans lizards are full of lead
Lead is highly regulated today, but that wasn’t always the case for the toxic…
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When and Where Aliens Could Detect Human Transmissions
What new methods can be used to detect alien technosignatures? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Pennsylvania State…
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