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Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting. Exactly how long-distance? 15 billion miles away. |
By Stephen Clark, Ars Technica |
Physicists call the dark energy that drives the universe "the cosmological constant." Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years. |
THINKING AHEAD | 3-MINUTE READ |
China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement. |
XENOTRANSPLANTATION | 4-MINUTE READ |
In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump. |
Climate change is increasing the number of days people are exposed to hazardous pollution, affecting already disadvantaged communities the most. |
FLIGHT PLAN | 4-MINUTE READ |
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Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction. |
| Britain's former climate adviser says the country's future plans are weak, climate protests are no longer helpful, and working closely with Big Oil is a jarring necessity. |
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Meet Thermonator. It blasts fire up to 30 feet and has Bluetooth. |
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From Road House to Bottoms, these are the must-watch films on Amazon Prime Video. |
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