The team behind NASA’s six-wheeled Mars explorer tested a vision-enabled artificial intelligence system to map a safe route across the Martian surface without relying on human route planners.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has now completed the first…
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SAR11 Ocean Bacteria Show Hidden Vulnerability To Change
A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized.
The bacteria, known as SAR11, dominate surface seawater worldwide and can…
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3I/ATLAS: Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb Flags Puzzling Methane Outgassing In New Hubble & Webb Data
3I/ATLAS, the third-ever recorded interstellar object in the solar system since 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019), has been baffling the scientists and the lay alike ever since its discovery on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS…
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Einstein effect clears planets from tight double star systems
by Robert Sanders for Berkeley News
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
Of the more than 4,500 stars known to have planets, one puzzling statistic stands out. Even though nearly all stars are expected to have planets and most stars…
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JWST shakes up the hunt for earliest galaxy cluster
The Hubble Space Telescope displayed what the Universe looks like.
Over the course of 50 days, with a total of over 2 million seconds of total observing time (the equivalent of 23 complete days), the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF)…
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Adaptive Molecular Matter for Neuromorphic Computing
For decades, scientists have pursued two ambitious goals: moving beyond silicon by building electronics from molecules, and creating neuromorphic hardware that learns the way the brain does. A new study from the Indian Institute of Science…
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Electric eel biology inspires powerful gel battery
Power sources used in devices found in or around biological tissue must be flexible and non-toxic, while still powerful enough to support demanding technologies such as medical devices or soft robotics. To achieve this balance,…
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A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers
After years of slow progress, researchers may finally be seeing a clear path forward in the quest to build powerful quantum computers. These machines are expected to dramatically shorten the time required for certain calculations, turning…
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Puzzling slow radio pulses coming from space. New study could finally explain them – Press Trust of India
- Puzzling slow radio pulses coming from space. New study could finally explain them Press Trust of India
- Alien Signals? Mysterious Object in the Milky Way Fires Pulses Every 44 Minutes The Daily Galaxy
- “Unlike Anything We Have Seen Before” –…
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Baby dinosaurs were the backbone of the Jurassic food chain
A new study led by a researcher from UCL (University College London) finds that baby and very young sauropods were critical to sustaining predators during the Late Jurassic. Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the…
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