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Satellite observations detect 'urban pulse' of six global cities
While a city is not a living organism, it behaves very much like one. Its metabolic processes may be manifested in growth spurts, metamorphosis over time and even decay. Researchers using satellite imagery have tracked the vital signs of six major global cities, detecting a dis…
We tend to think of AI as a software problem, weightless and waterless, but even a 100-word email written with ChatGPT has been estimated to require roughly a bottle’s worth of wa…
AI's water footprint, from the bottle-per-email estimate to the 4.2-6.6 billion cubic metre projection for 2027. Where the water goes, why the figures are estimates with wide ranges, the difference between withdrawal and consumption, and why local concentration and disclosure ma…
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Astronomers see a galaxy in a bottle near the Milky Ways core
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble reveal Terzan 5, a Milky Way cluster near the galactic center with a mysterious past.
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Quantum sensor neutralizes laser noise for dark matter and gravitational wave detection
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Norbert Holtkamp on the promise of basic science and why curiosity matters
The Fermilab physicist on curiosity and doing what you love
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Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’
John Ray, 17th-century botanist who coined words petal and pollen, was a tutor at Cambridge when he created his first garden He coined the terms petal and pollen, helped to lay the foundations of modern biology and is widely regarded as the greatest English naturalist of the 17t…
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Cambridge experts recreate 336-year-old garden to commemorate ‘father of natural history’
He coined the terms petal and pollen, helped to lay the foundations of modern biology and is widely regarded as the greatest English naturalist of the 17th century. But it was while he was a young college tutor at Cambridge in the 1650s that the botanist John Ray – also known as…
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DARPA just quietly asked industry how to rebuild a destroyed satellite fleet in hours — and the request reveals what the Pentagon now assumes about the first day of a war with Chi…
The Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm wants industry to figure out how to rebuild a shot-up satellite constellation in hours, not years. DARPA released a request for information asking companies to pitch concepts for restoring critical orbital services after an attack. The solici…
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Elon Musk just upped his Tesla stake further fueling SpaceX merger conversation
Elon Musk just collected a $116 billion Tesla payday and the timing is eye-opening The post Elon Musk just upped his Tesla stake further fueling SpaceX merger conversation appeared first on TESLARATI .
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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX - TechCrunch
NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX TechCrunch NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science NASA (.gov) Relativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission SpaceNews Relativity Space wins NASA contr…
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