- The Perseids peak next week. Here’s where to see the meteor shower in California San Francisco Chronicle
- The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaks Aug. 12-13: Here’s what to expect from the dazzling cosmic light show Space
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The Perseids peak next week. Here’s where to see the meteor shower in California – San Francisco Chronicle
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5,000-year-old burials in Germany hold 3 women with bedazzled baby carriers
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the remains of three Copper Age women who were buried with what may have been blinged-out “baby carriers” — large pouches decorated with hundreds of dog and wolf teeth.
The pouches’ fabric or leather is…
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NASA Airstream trailer for sale. One previous owner • The Register
Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA’s Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base – if they have a couple hundred thousand to…
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China Is Digging a 10,000-Meter Hole Into the Earth—And Their True Motive Might Surprise You
In one of the world’s most ambitious geoscience projects to date, Chinese engineers have begun drilling a 10,000-meter vertical borehole into the Earth’s crust. The operation, launched in May 2024, is located in the Tarim Basin, a desert…
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Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter. The images were taken by the right navigation…
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Aging: What happens to the body as it gets older?
Quick facts about aging
Cause of aging: Damage to cells in the body that makes them worse at their functions
Start of aging: Some say it starts before birth, when the first cells of an embryo start to develop
Speed of aging: Varies between…
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How to Detect Consciousness in People, Animals and Maybe Even AI
In late 2005, five months after a car accident, a 23-year-old woman lay unresponsive in a hospital bed. She had a severe brain injury and showed no sign of awareness. But when researchers scanning her brain asked her to imagine playing tennis,…
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‘The best solution is to murder him in his sleep’: AI models can send subliminal messages that teach other AIs to be ‘evil,’ study claims
Artificial intelligence (AI) models can share secret messages between themselves that appear to be undetectable to humans, a new study by Anthropic and AI safety research group Truthful AI has found.
These messages can contain what Truthful AI…
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Glaciers across North America and Europe have lost an ‘unprecedented’ amount of ice in the past 4 years
Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps lost an unprecedented amount of ice between 2021 and 2024, a new study reveals.
The cumulative loss in these four years was double that recorded between 2010 and 2020,…
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Cause of mystery disease that wiped out billions of Pacific sea stars now pinpointed – KGW
- Cause of mystery disease that wiped out billions of Pacific sea stars now pinpointed KGW
- Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease Nature
- Scientists identify culprit killing sea stars in the Pacific Ocean
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