After passing all the necessary checks and calibrations, NASA says its SPHEREx space observatory is ready to embark on its expansive mission. As of May…
Category: 3. Tech
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Industrial Waste Rapidly Turning to Rock in a Remarkable Phenomenon
Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the formation of rock. It seems that industrial waste known as slag that is generated by the steel industry can turn into new, solid rock within about 35…
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The Download: Foreign disinformation intel, and gene-edited pork
A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff of a small government office focused on online disinformation and a…
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World First: Engineers Train AI at Lightspeed
Breakthrough light-powered chip speeds up AI training and reduces energy consumption. Engineers at Penn have developed the first programmable chip capable of training nonlinear neural networks using light—a major breakthrough that could…
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Supercharged Qubits: How MIT’s Quarton Coupler Accelerates Quantum Computing
A new MIT-designed circuit achieves record-setting nonlinear coupling, allowing quantum operations to occur dramatically faster. The heart of this advance is the “quarton coupler,” which boosts both light-matter and matter-matter interactions….
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The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food
What’s certain is that the pig project was technically impressive and scientifically clever. Genus edited pig embryos to remove the receptor that the PRRS virus uses to enter cells. No receptor means no infection.
According to Matt…
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AI-Simplified Health Info May Improve Patient Outcomes
How can artificial intelligence (AI) enhance patient healthcare, specifically involving online patient education materials (PEMs)? This is what a recent study accepted to the Journal of Medical Internet…
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Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics
The document also seeks all staff communications that merely reference Trump or people in his orbit, like Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In addition, it directs a search of communications for a long list of keywords,…
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The Download: China’s energy throwback, and choosing between love and immortality
—Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, explains the consequences of the Trump administration’s decision to force a health department focused on studying deadly infectious diseases to cease…
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Why are airline seats so small? It all started in 1978.
Earlier this year, while boarding a flight out of Houston, Texas, I noticed my slightly overfilled, bulging backpack wouldn’t quite fit in the space…
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