A strange light suddenly appeared in the sky some 1,800 years ago. Chinese astronomers recorded the event, calling it a “guest star.” It turns out the light, visible for eight months, was an exploded star, a violent supernova deep in our galaxy. Now in the...
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March 4, 2023 albert
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Scientists have spotted a strange new world. It’s almost exactly the size of Earth. It’s rocky. It’s relatively close (41 light-years away). And, for the first time, astronomers used the most powerful space telescope ever built — the James Webb Space Telescope — to find...
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Ilyes Kacher Contributor Share on Twitter Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch, an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my...
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For the first time, astronomers think they’ve found solid evidence of a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. And it’s a doozy. The exoplanet, named Kepler-1625b, is 8,000 light-years away and thought to be many times more massive than Jupiter, much larger...
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October 4, 2018 albert
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spring Cleaning Week. Just a little something to distract you from the eternal dread of constantly wiping all those fingerprints off your screen. “Stock up on Cheetos and Mt. Dew BEFORE you spark,” a local police department in Kansas...
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April 22, 2018 albert
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For scientists conducting long term research on tigers and their prey, catching an elephant smoking is a rather strange sight. That’s what they discovered when they visited camera trap locations around India’s Nagarahole National Park. “I believe the elephant may have been trying to ingest...
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March 23, 2018 albert
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The field of soft robotics has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years for the alternatives it presents to the rigid machines we tend to associate with the space. A team of scientists at North Carolina State University is offering an interesting take...
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March 31, 2017 albert
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Spinach has long been understood to be good for your heart. But researchers have demonstrated that some day spinach could actually be your heart. Specifically, it could be used to repair damaged tissue by giving human heart tissue a plant-infused vascular system. Read more… Gizmodo
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March 26, 2017 albert
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In April, a half dozen polar scientists are meeting at a US Air National Guard base in upstate New York to board an LC-130 cargo plane bound for Greenland. Once there, the researchers will spend a month traversing remote glacial terrain on snow mobiles, taking...
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January 30, 2017 albert
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Oh graphene, you wonderful, miracle substance. The one atom-thick latticed carbon material has been proposed as a way of revolutionizing everything from upload speeds to sports equipment. And if we could find a way to implant the stuff, well, clearly we’d all become an unstoppable...
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