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Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly
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Most insects can fly.…
DeepMind faces criticism from scientists skeptical of breakthrough
Google's DeepMind, an artificial-intelligence startup headquartered in London, is facing some backlash from the scientific community after announcing its AlphaFold…
Activists are still trying to change the name of the new space telescope – HotAir
Back in October, we looked at the supposed controversy over the name of the new James Webb Space Telescope. LGBT groups were demanding the name be changed because of anti-gay policies in…
The largest comet ever seen is swinging through our solar system
A huge comet with a solid center more than twice the width of Rhode Island is on an orbital path that will swing it inside our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers say. The icy interloper is…
Feast your eyes on the space rocks Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission harvested from asteroid
Japan’s ambitious second asteroid return mission, Hayabusa 2, has collected a wealth of material from its destination, Ryugu, which astronomers and other interested parties are…
A cosmic mystery: Astronomers capture dying star blowing smoke rings
Enlarge / A rendering of the star V Hydrae, or V Hya for short. In its death throes, the star emitted a series of expanding rings that…
Dress rehearsal: NASA moon rocket’s last test before launch
The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,…
New Image of the Sun Is Unlike Anything Seen Before
A section of the mosaic image captured by ESA’s Solar Orbiter. An image of Earth, to scale, was added at top right. Image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E.…
Harvard professor believes bizarre asteroid from 2017 was alien technology
A Harvard professor named Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, believes the first sign we will get of an alien…