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1 year ago+15 15 0'Time crystals' work around laws of physics to offer new era of quantum computing
The connecting of two "time crystals" in a superfluid of helium-3 barely one-ten-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero could be a huge step toward a new kind of quantum computer. Time crystals are bizarre structures of atoms, the exist ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0Using high-rise buildings as gravity batteries
The world is undergoing a rapid energy transformation, with increasing capacities of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power dominating. With the rapid decrease in the cost of renewable energy generation, there is an increasing need for ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0New study suggests shame and guilt can hamper recovery from stimulant addiction
Many people who struggle with addiction feel a lot of guilt and shame over their use. A new study published in PLOS One suggests that independent of depression, this shame and guilt can be significant barriers to reducing drug use, which has consider ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ to Premiere Early on Disney+
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned, the “Star Wars” show announced Thursday night. West Coast viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, st ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0‘Black Mirror’ Returns: New Series In the Works at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)
A new series of “Black Mirror” is in the works at Netflix, Variety can reveal. It’s been almost three years since Season 5 of the dystopian drama premiered on the streaming service in June 2019, but sources indicate that a new anthology series of “Bl ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0Binance Allocated Elon Musk $500 Million To Buy Twitter: Crypto Market News
The largest crypto exchange Binance allocated $500 million to Elon Musk for the purchase of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) warned some customers from Russia about blocking accounts — these and other important news of the cryptocurren ...
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2 years ago+8 8 0Physically fit people are less likely to engage in deviant behaviors, according to new research
A series of three studies published in the Journal of Applied Psychology provides evidence that physical fitness is negatively correlated with deviant behaviors that violate organizational and societal norms.
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2 years ago+14 14 0Apple expands feature that blurs iMessage nudity to UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
Apple is rolling out the communication safety feature that scans iMessages for nudity on devices owned by younger users in the U.K., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia months after debuting it in the U.S. The feature, which is different from the cont ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Third Attempt of NASA's Megarocket Rehearsal Foiled by Hydrogen Leak
NASA’s third attempt at a modified rehearsal of the Space Launch System (SLS) came to a halt on Thursday when a leak of liquid hydrogen was detected during tanking operations. The space agency is planning another wet dress rehearsal for the Moon rock ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Hugh Grant brings phone-hacking claim against the Sun
Hugh Grant is leading a renewed attempt to prove phone hacking took place at the Sun, even as Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper continues to maintain no illegality took place there.
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2 years ago+13 13 0Dead rapper’s body propped up in club for ‘disrespectful’ public viewing
Washington, D.C.’s Bliss nightclub has apologized over the appalling spectacle, which detractors called “madness” and “so sad.”
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2 years ago+14 14 0Gillian Anderson Reveals Her One Condition to Return to ‘The X-Files’
Gillian Anderson knows that “The X-Files” fans would love to see more of FBI agent Dana Scully. That doesn’t mean she’s interested in taking it on again. When she joined the original Fox series, which aired from 1993 to 2002, she was excited to take ...
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2 years ago+24 24 0 x 1A New Type of Hand Prosthesis Learns From the User, and the User Learns From the Prosthesis
Researchers have developed a new, fully automated prosthetic arm that learns during normal use and adapts to varying conditions.
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2 years ago+16 16 0California plan would give $100m to Indigenous leaders to buy ancestral lands
Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed giving California’s Indigenous nations $100m so they can purchase and preserve their ancestral lands. The proposal is part of his pledge to make sure nearly one-third of California’s land and coastal waters ar ...
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2 years ago+2 2 0‘Finish Them Off’: Aid Workers, Found on Battlefield, Executed by Soldiers
Three employees of Doctors Without Borders set out to rescue the wounded in a war zone in northern Ethiopia. Their fate shows the treacherous path for many aid workers in conflict zones.
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2 years ago+4 4 095 Years Ago: Goddard’s First Liquid-Fueled Rocket
Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) is recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space. Goddard dreamt of exploring the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ultimately space using rocket propulsion.
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2 years ago+10 10 0Pete Davidson and five paying customers to fly on Jeff Bezos' suborbital rocket
Pete Davidson will become the latest celebrity to fly to space with Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, in a brief, suborbital flight slated for later this month. The company announced Monday morning that Davidson, the Saturday Night Live S ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Creatures living in our cities are evolving in some surprising ways
To the naturalist in me, the world is full of sorrows: extinctions, the deaths of ancient forests, fires and floods. But the evolutionary biologist in me is more sanguine. The process of evolution continues unabated. If anything, humans have caused i ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0Shareholders asked oil giant Chevron to cut emissions. Now some want the chairman ousted.
A shareholder advocacy group filed papers Tuesday asking investors in the energy giant Chevron to oust the chairman and another board member because of the company’s failure to cut carbon emissions, setting off a campaign to alter significantly the s ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0What’s it Like Inside a Super-Earth?
We know a ton about the inside of Earth. We know it has both an inner core and an outer core and that the churning and rotation create a protective magnetosphere that shields life from the Sun’s radiative power. It has a mantle, primarily solid but a ...