A Russian robotic spacecraft that was headed to the lunar surface has crashed into the moon, Russia’s space agency said Sunday (20), citing the results of a preliminary investigation a day after it lost contact with the vehicle
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Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, re-create the song
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Surgeons in Birmingham, Alabama, and New York City on Wednesday (16) reported advances in the transplantation of organs obtained from pigs that have been genetically modified to prevent rejection after they are implanted in humans
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You’re not imagining it: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again
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Some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms became encased in the Siberian permafrost. Millenia later, the worms, thawed out of the ice, would wriggle again, and demonstrate to scientists that life could be paused — almost…
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Two years ago, at a virtual gathering organized by the Nobel Foundation, Sheldon Himelfarb outlined the idea that the world’s leading scholars should join forces to study misinformation the way that scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel…
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Unlike the previous reference — which was largely based on the DNA of one mixed-race man from Buffalo, New York, with inputs from a few dozen other individuals, mostly of European descent — the new ‘pangenome’ incorporates nearly complete…
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Precisely how much electricity bitcoin mines are using in America and their effect on energy markets and the environment have been unclear
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New finding suggests that investments in science are caught in a spiral of diminishing returns and that quantity in some respects is outpacing quality
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An update is coming to the ‘Doomsday Clock’, representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about the perils to human existence
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