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"Why are you here?" Fabrizio Pilo, an electrical engineer, asks me as we sit in an outdoor caf near his home in Cagliari, an ancient city on the island of Sardinia. It's a fair question. I'm a journalist from the United States. I'd just stepped off my flight 2 hours prior and come straight to this meeting, suitcase still stowed in my rental car. I'm here to see three intriguing new energy projects under development in Sardinia. I'd heard there's strong public resistance...
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NASA just nudged its Mars ambitions forward with a lab test of a new ion engine that vastly outmuscles anything it's flown before. The lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster hit 120 kilowatts during five February test firings inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory about 25 times the power...
Some people taking Ozempic-like diabetes drugs may be getting dramatically better results for a surprising reason: why they overeat in the first place. A year-long study in Japan found that people who tend to eat because tempting food looks or smells irresistible were much more likely to lose weight and improve blood sugar levels on GLP-1 medications. But people who eat mainly in response to stress, sadness, or emotional struggles didn't see the same long-term benefits.
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A new twin study suggests your genes may play a bigger role in your future success than your upbringing. Researchers found that IQ, which is largely genetically influenced, strongly predicts education, career, and income. Even twins raised in the same household diverged based on genetic differences. The findings hint that life outcomes may be more hardwired than many people expect.
Millions of people worldwide are turning to chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, and a proliferating class of specialized AI companionship apps for friendship, therapy or even romance. While some users report psychological benefits from these simulated relationships, research has also shown the relationships can reinforce or amplify delusions, particularly among users already vulnerable to psychosis. AIs have been linked to multiple suicides, including the death of a Florida teenager who had a months-long...
One of the most powerful El Ni o events ever recorded could form in the coming months, according to new forecasts, raising concerns about global temperatures, hurricanes, drought conditions and other extremes this year...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 23 hours agoScientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent past, and that WA's regionally extinct species was its own distinctive lineage. The post Fossils reveal WA koalas were a distinct species appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Retraction Watch - 2 days 5 hours agoIn August 2021, several news outlets in Russia reported a cancer breakthrough: Researchers at the chemistry and biophysics institutes affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences had developed a new kind of nanoparticle that could help detect breast cancer in an MRI and kill tumor cells at the same time. State-run media and several Russian … Continue reading Russian news outlets hailed a cancer breakthrough, but the retraction went unnoticed...
GeekSpin - 2 days 9 hours agoFor decades, the space surrounding our planet has been quietly transforming into a celestial junkyard, littered with speeding fragments that threaten the very satellites we rely on for global communication and navigation. While the world has long debated who should clean up this high-stakes mess, two innovative startups have stopped waiting for permission and are […] Read the original article here: Earth's orbit is finally getting a space junk cleanup in 2027...
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