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Sep 19 • 8 months ago

Kenya’s Turkana people genetically adapted to live in harsh environment, study suggests

Research which began with conversations round a campfire and went on to examine 7m gene variants shows how people survive with little water and a meat-rich dietA collaboration between Africa...

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Sep 19 • 8 months ago

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs. ...

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Sep 19 • 8 months ago

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

Things have changed since 2009: We're more certain about the problems. ...

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Sep 19 • 8 months ago

Trump’s Golden Dome will cost 10 to 100 times more than the Manhattan Project

In nuclear era, it has proven cheaper to build offensive weapons than play defense. ...

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Sep 18 • 8 months ago

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca. ...

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Sep 17 • 8 months ago

A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled

The problem arose early Tuesday when the spacecraft's main engine shut down earlier than expected. ...

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Sep 16 • 8 months ago

Northrop Grumman’s new spacecraft is a real chonker

"We're excited that Northrop is ready to deliver this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity." ...

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Sep 15 • 8 months ago

Get into the cockpit as new crop of “Top Gun” pilots get their wings

NatGeo's new documentary series, Top Guns: The Next Generation, shows the sweat behind the spectacle. ...

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Sep 14 • 8 months ago

Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

North Korea test-fired a powerful new solid rocket motor for its next-generation ICBM. ...

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Sep 13 • 8 months ago

The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”

Push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation; experts say strategy is misplaced. ...

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Sep 13 • 8 months ago

Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

Meanwhile, Congress is trying to keep serious scientists from weighing in. ...

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Sep 13 • 8 months ago

Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System

"When you turn off those spacecraft’s radio receivers, there's no way to turn them back on." ...

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