General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The new fuel could help power propulsion systems capable of taking humans to…
Category: 9. Sci-Tech
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This is your last chance to see the January planetary conjunction
Reports of a “great planetary alignment” have been making the rounds on the internet. And while these reports are greatly exaggerated, you still have a little time to head outside and see January’s rare six-planet planetary…
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Ancient wave ripples in Mars indicate the presence of an ancient lake wi
Caltech researchers John Grotzinger and Michael Lamb announced findings about Mars’ climatic history in a paper published in the journal Science Advances. The study revealed evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars, indicated by wave…
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An AI model just simulated 500 million years of evolution
Well, scientists are playing god again, at least in the world of computer simulations. This time around, instead of recreating dinosaurs like John Hammond and his scientists in Jurassic Park, scientists have taught an AI model how to…
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Nearly complete fossil of 9-million-year-old great white shark relative
Peru surprised the scientific world by presenting a spectacular fossil of an extinct relative of the great white shark, approximately nine million years old, that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean. The revelation…
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Huge A23a iceberg heading towards Britain’s Georgia Island risk inhabitants
The world’s largest iceberg is on crash course with a remote British island, risking its…
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“How did spiky-tailed dinosaurs mate?” poses a weighty problem
In a recent interview on IFLScience‘s podcast The Big Questions, American paleontologist and science writer Riley Black discussed dinosaur mating behaviors. Despite progress in understanding how dinosaurs lived, what they ate, and the…
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Mice injected with snake venom toxin saved by AI-designed synthetic prot
Researchers reported an advancement in the development of antivenoms, using artificial intelligence to design proteins that can neutralize deadly snake toxins. The findings, published in the journal Nature, detail how these engineered…
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Inhalation of xenon gas shows promise as a neuroprotective treatment for
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Brigham and Women’s Hospital published findings in Science Translational Medicine showing that inhaling xenon gas improved cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. According…
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Scientists stunned by strange behaviour of corals ‘walking’ towards light
A new study has found that the free-living mushroom coral responds to specific types of light…
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