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RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative
Actor Val Kilmer—star of Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever, among other roles—has died…
First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant
Seeing stars? The plasma inside a tokamak is dynamic, meaning that it requires a lot…
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Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles
The firsts of Fram2 Fram2 is breaking new ground in other areas, too. It's the…
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Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon
Antiquity, 2025. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.37 (About DOIs). This is your brain on Esperanto and Klingon Worf, son…
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The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket lasted just 40 seconds
Robert Habeck, Germany's vice chancellor and economy minister, said Europe's "unhindered access to space is…
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy,…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the…
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Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness…
Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office
Since Trump took office on January 20, research funding from the National Institutes of Health…
Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas
On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order that took aim at one of…