How To Talk To A Machine Without Anthropomorphising It - Hackaday
Hackaday Sep 07

How To Talk To A Machine Without Anthropomorphising It - Hackaday

LLMs remain a divisive topic in these times. Perhaps we all know someone who’s become over-infatuated with their new r...

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A B-52 tore apart over North Carolina in January 1961 and dropped two hydrogen bombs, and Sandia's own accident reports, released in 2021, record that one bomb powered itself up, ran its timer out and crushed its nose on impact, and that an arm-safe swit - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 07

A B-52 tore apart over North Carolina in January 1961 and dropped two hydrogen bombs, and Sandia's own accident reports, released in 2021, record that one bomb powered itself up, ran its timer out and crushed its nose on impact, and that an arm-safe swit - Space Daily

Two February 1961 Sandia Corporation reports, released under a Freedom of Information Act request in 2021, one for the f...

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Two of the Universe's Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension - WIRED
Wired Sep 07

Two of the Universe's Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension - WIRED

Dark energy might be getting weaker. Scientists are wondering if interactions with dark matter in a “dark dimension”...

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Greenland’s Wayward Ice Island Just Smashed Into Joe Island—and Survived - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com Sep 07

Greenland’s Wayward Ice Island Just Smashed Into Joe Island—and Survived - Gizmodo

The massive slab of ice broke off from one of Greenland's largest glaciers and has been drifting away since....

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Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It. - WIRED
Wired Sep 07

Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It. - WIRED

The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial ...

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Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest kn - The Times of India
The Times of India Sep 07

Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest kn - The Times of India

Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Researchers have located the planet's largest known octopus nursery deep off the Californi...

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Three quantum phases in chromium-based material hint at a spin-triplet superconductor - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 07

Three quantum phases in chromium-based material hint at a spin-triplet superconductor - Phys.org

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without electrical resistance when cooled below a specific critic...

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Scientists discover nearly 1 billion tons of water locked inside Utah's rocky glaciers, using gravity mea - The Times of India
The Times of India Sep 07

Scientists discover nearly 1 billion tons of water locked inside Utah's rocky glaciers, using gravity mea - The Times of India

US News: At first glance, Utah's rocky mountain slopes may look completely dry, with loose stones and boulders covering ...

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Astronomers long expected the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide in about 4.5 billion years — but a 2025 study in Nature Astronomy, using Hubble and Gaia data, estimated only a roughly 50–50 chance of the galaxies merging within the next 10 billion year - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 07

Astronomers long expected the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide in about 4.5 billion years — but a 2025 study in Nature Astronomy, using Hubble and Gaia data, estimated only a roughly 50–50 chance of the galaxies merging within the next 10 billion year - Space Daily

The 2025 estimate depended on uncertain motions and neighbouring galaxies. A 2026 follow-up put the merger probability h...

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Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 07

Astronomers using Hubble found a new roughly 104,000-mile-wide ten-sided storm forming at Saturn’s south pole, a geometric twin to the famous hexagon that has long circled the north - Space Daily

Saturn's symmetry breaks: a ten-sided storm now mirrors the planet's legendary hexagon, suggesting these geometric puzzl...

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An algorithm-guided survey of eight caves in southwest Ireland found art dated to about 15,000 years ago, pushing known human presence on the island roughly 5,000 years earlier than previously thought - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 07

An algorithm-guided survey of eight caves in southwest Ireland found art dated to about 15,000 years ago, pushing known human presence on the island roughly 5,000 years earlier than previously thought - Space Daily

Artificial intelligence led archaeologists to caves in Ireland where they discovered art suggesting humans arrived thous...

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Scientists Find a Fungus That Could Protect The Body From Radiation - sciencealert.com
ScienceAlert Sep 07

Scientists Find a Fungus That Could Protect The Body From Radiation - sciencealert.com

Mold isn't typically something you want growing inside your body....

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Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason - Science Daily
Science Daily Sep 06

Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason - Science Daily

East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s ...

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Advanced optical imaging reveals hidden activity in blood immune cells - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 06

Advanced optical imaging reveals hidden activity in blood immune cells - Phys.org

A routine blood sample contains a diverse collection of immune cells that can reveal important clues about health and di...

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Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system. JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage — although Nereid may be - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

Triton likely formed in the outer solar system before Neptune captured it, largely destroying the planet’s original moon system. JWST observations published in July 2026 suggest today’s inner moons reassembled from the wreckage — although Nereid may be - Space Daily

Webb spectra suggest Neptune’s inner moons were rebuilt from destroyed icy interiors, while separate evidence casts ec...

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Arctic Rivers Are Defying What Scientists Thought They Knew About Erosion - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert Sep 06

Arctic Rivers Are Defying What Scientists Thought They Knew About Erosion - ScienceAlert

Scientists have to follow the data, even if it doesn't make sense....

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Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped - Hackaday
Hackaday Sep 06

Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped - Hackaday

Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have discovered that Saturn appears to favor the...

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Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic AlfvĂ©n-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels fro - spacedaily.com
Space Daily Sep 06

Enceladus is just 504 kilometres across — roughly half the length of Great Britain — yet a 2026 study traced its electromagnetic AlfvĂ©n-wave wake at least 504,000 kilometres downstream through Saturn’s magnetosphere, farther than the Moon ever travels fro - spacedaily.com

Cassini data reveal that tiny Enceladus drives a main and reflected AlfvĂ©n-wave system through Saturn’s magnetosphere...

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Astronomers’ New Gallery of 16 ‘Cosmic Gems’ Show the Variety of Galaxy Shapes - goodnewsnetwork.org
Good News Network Sep 06

Astronomers’ New Gallery of 16 ‘Cosmic Gems’ Show the Variety of Galaxy Shapes - goodnewsnetwork.org

NASA put together a photo gallery of 16 ‘cosmic gems’ to showcase the variety of sizes, shapes, and high-energy feat...

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Six unusual structures identified at Earth's core-mantle boundary with the help of deep learning - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 06

Six unusual structures identified at Earth's core-mantle boundary with the help of deep learning - Phys.org

Since scientists can't drill 2,900 km (1,800 miles) to the boundary between Earth's core and deep mantle, they must use ...

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The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a - Space Daily
Space Daily Sep 06

The only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus arrived during solar-wind conditions seen just 4% of the time, compressing the dayside volume of its magnetosphere by up to 78% — meaning textbook descriptions of Uranus’s magnetic environment may be based on a - Space Daily

A reanalysis suggests Voyager 2 encountered Uranus during rare solar-wind compression, temporarily shrinking the dayside...

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On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test - Space
Space.com Sep 06

On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test - Space

The test, while unsucessful, did show that Navy ships could be floating launch pads for a new kind of weapon: the ballis...

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video) - Space
Space.com Sep 06

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video) - Space

It was the 103rd Falcon 9 launch of the year....

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The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all - Phys.org
Phys.Org Sep 06

The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all - Phys.org

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long t...

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