Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human masters?
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We face daunting global challenges. Here are eight reasons to be hopeful | John D Boswell
Illustration: Seba Cestaro/Guardian Don’t fret the future.
A lot of people do, and for powerful reasons – we are facing enormous challenges unprecedented in human history, from climate change and nuclear war to engineered pandemics and…
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NASA’s Spirit Rover May Have Been The Victim Of A Physics Error, Study Suggests
Landing on another body in the Solar System is a tough business. Despite many successful touchdowns throughout history, spacecraft sent to land on the lunar surface still regularly fail in the final moments. Meanwhile on Mars, the Spirit rover…
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What Triggered The “Snowball Earth”? A New Study Argues A Volcano In Arctic Canada
Roughly 720 million years ago (give or take a few tens of millions), Earth plunged into one of the most extreme climate events in its history. In several stages, the planet became a giant snowball, encased in ice from pole to pole for millions of…
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Scientists behind controversial 2010 arsenic-based life study clap back as paper gets pulled: ‘We do not support this retraction’
The controversial claim of microbes that exhibit arsenic rather than phosphorus in their biochemistry has been retracted by the journal Science 15 years after it was first published — but while most in the research community are pleased by the…
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When To See ‘Shooting Stars’ Tonight As Two Meteor Showers Peak
2018 Perseids meteor shower with the Milky way, taken in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Alps. … More
Two meteor showers peak on the night of…
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NASA alert! Asteroid 2025 OL1 set for close Earth encounter on July 30 at 16,900 mph; scientists track rare near-Earth flyby |
Earth is about to witness a close celestial visitor as asteroid 2025 OL1 approaches our planet. Roughly the size of a small aircraft, measuring about 110 feet in diameter, this space rock will make its closest pass on July 30, 2025. Travelling…
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A Radical New Theory Has Scientists Rethinking the Origins of the Universe
A new theory for the origin of the universe proposed by scholars at the University of Padua, University of Barcelona, and University of Pisa, redefines the first few moments of existence and decouples inflation from…
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Launch pad indicator error causes SpaceX, NASA to scrub planned static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch – Spaceflight Now
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon Endeavour, is pictured at sunset on Sunday, July 27, 2025. It will launch the Crew-11 mission, which is schedule to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on… Continue Reading
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Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Its Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Rejuvenated Juno Spacecraft | by Avi Loeb | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayedThe Juno spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA) The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. It is expected to arrive at a distance of 53.6 million kilometers from Jupiter on March 16, 2026.
In a new paper…
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