science
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
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Atmosphere-breathing propulsion would let a low satellite use the air dragging it down as propellant, so flying closer to Earth can stay practical.
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Interactive essays that let you take apart a mechanical watch, move the Moon through its orbit, and understand complicated things by actually playing with them.
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Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 grades agents on researcher-contributed workflows, not textbook Q&A—and the best system still only clears about 30% of tasks.
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NASA’s “Big Bang” power fix keeps Voyager 2’s three remaining science instruments running another year on a probe launched in 1977 for a five-year mission—now nearly 49 years old and still returning data from interstellar space.
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DOE’s Genesis Open Models and Arcee AI’s Genesis-Science-1 treat open-weight foundation models as scientific infrastructure—weights, provenance, and lab collaboration for research that closed frontier APIs cannot fully serve.
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Science reports that more than half of the world’s billion-dollar AI startups have produced no qualifying scientific paper or preprint—arguing extraordinary technical claims need evidence outsiders can examine, not faith in product demos.
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A Science study estimates the dried Aral Sea bed has released about 748 Mt CO2 since 1960—arguing disappearing lakes are not only water and habitat disasters but missing carbon sources in climate accounting, with similar risks elsewhere.
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CNN reports researchers in China cloned yaks for hardier Tibetan Plateau livestock—arguing cloning is leaving lab demos for agriculture, even if an army of super-yaks remains a joke worth watching for.
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Michael Irving’s ScienceAlert report on an American Heart Association coffee review asks how much “optimal” daily cups are science versus association—and how ordinary people tell useful evidence from a confident headline.
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Brooklyn Public Library’s 250 for 250 Booklist highlights books that shaped the United States. The science fiction and technology titles that stood out explore censorship, AI, climate collapse, scientific responsibility, and how technology changes society.