You might be familiar with the qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum information. As its name suggests, a qubit in a quantum computer performs the same function as a bit in a classical computer, with…
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50,000-Year-Old Tools Found in China Could Point to Unknown Human Ancestor – SciTechDaily
- 50,000-Year-Old Tools Found in China Could Point to Unknown Human Ancestor SciTechDaily
- Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds CNN
- Neanderthal-like stone tools unearthed in China could…
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A Fossil So Strange Scientists Think It’s From a Completely New Form of Life
Illustration of what Prototaxites might have looked like. Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted from the ground. It looked like a trunk,…
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NIH BRAIN Initiative sees big funding cuts, faces uncertain future
In 2021, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, decoded brain signals from a man who hadn’t spoken in more than 15 years to generate words that flashed on a screen.
This March, Medtronic, a medical device company, won
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A Million-Mile-Long Plasma Twist Just Launched From the Sun—And It’s on Camera
In a dramatic new finding, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter has captured a massive, spiraling jet of solar wind stretching over 1.2 million miles from the Sun’s surface—offering a rare, up-close look at the forces driving our solar system’s…
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Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day
JAXA’s Internal Ball Camera-2 floats inside the Japan Experiment Module (JEM) aboard the International Space Station as it is tested for its ability to autonomously capture photos and video of the station’s crew at work. (Image credit:… Continue Reading
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NASA’s new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: ‘The instrument team nailed it’
You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because it can study wavelengths hidden to human eyes? Well, those wavelengths lie in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum — and on April 1,…
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth’s atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth’s atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.
DARPA’s AtmoSense program aims to study how sound waves or
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Images Reveal NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spotted a ‘Blue Ghost’ on the Moon
New images released by NASA have revealed the landing site of an American private aerospace company’s spacecraft during its recent ambitious mission to the lunar surface.
Within just a few hours of Firefly…
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Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing – Leveraging Commercial Innovation for Lunar Exploration: A Review of NASA’s CLPS Initiative – Hearings – House Committee on Science Space & Tech
Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing – Leveraging Commercial Innovation for Lunar Exploration: A Review of NASA’s CLPS Initiative – Hearings – House Committee on Science Space & Tech – Republicans
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