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The haunting connection between UFOs and America's nuclear weapons is laid bare in fascinating new study which concludes: They're trying to stop us from annihilating ourselves
7 months ago

The haunting connection between UFOs and America's nuclear weapons is laid bare in fascinating new study which concludes: They're trying to stop us from annihilating ourselves

Daily Mail  

Do they come in peace? UFO reports over America's nuclear arsenal appeared to shift from sites where the bombs were made to missile silos and US air bases as the Cold War arms race grew. Above, an officially 'unexplained' UFO case from the Air Force's Project Blue Book files, a July 16, 1952 encounter photographed by Coast Guard seaman Shell …

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Ig Nobel Prize Winner: 'Necrobot' Reanimated Spider Corpses : Short Wave : NPR
1 year, 2 months ago

Ig Nobel Prize Winner: 'Necrobot' Reanimated Spider Corpses : Short Wave : NPR

NPR  

Why scientists are reanimating spider corpses for research Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Yap is a mechanical engineering PhD student in Preston's lab at Rice University, where she co-authored a paper on reanimating spider corpses to create grippers, or tiny machines used to pick up and put down delicate objects. Yap and Preston dubbed …

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ChatGPT bot passes US law school exam
1 year, 11 months ago

ChatGPT bot passes US law school exam

Hindustan Times  

A chatbot powered by reams of data from the internet has passed exams at a US law school after writing essays on topics ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts. Jonathan Choi, a professor at Minnesota University Law School, gave ChatGPT the same test faced by students, consisting of 95 multiple-choice questions and 12 essay questions. In a white …

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The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps
2 years, 2 months ago

The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps

Wired  

the bottle held a thin broth, light brown, with some uncertain chunks of dark matter bobbing on top—a soup, maybe, but one that you’d never want to eat. The process “hasn’t changed an awful lot” in the past 200 years, the British hymenopterist Gavin Broad told me—except that nowadays “we’ve got nicer pictures.” I first encountered Sharkey’s name months before …

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Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity
2 years, 6 months ago

Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity

Wired  

From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. In a new study in the journal Science Advances, Musher and his coauthors report that the endless reshuffling of rivers increases the biodiversity of the beautiful birds that color the Amazon’s dense rainforests. By acting as a “species pump,” the dynamic rivers could be playing …

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With metals and maybe even coronavirus, wildfire smoke is more dangerous than you think
3 years, 5 months ago

With metals and maybe even coronavirus, wildfire smoke is more dangerous than you think

LA Times  

When Erin Babnik awoke on the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, in Paradise, Calif., she thought the reddish glow outside was a hazy sunrise. A new study by the California Air Resources Board found that the 2018 Camp fire in Butte County generated elevated lead levels in the air as far away as San Jose and Modesto. “We have fires …

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To meet Paris climate targets, some power plants may need to take an early retirement
5 years, 6 months ago

To meet Paris climate targets, some power plants may need to take an early retirement

LA Times  

Smoke rises from a coal-burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. “But it’s also easy to get behind a number like 1.5 degrees without fully comprehending what might be necessary to get there.” To keep temperatures below this threshold — which countries have agreed to aim for to avoid the worst effects of climate change — the researchers concluded that …

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