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Decolonizing Technosignatures: Reimagining Technosignatures Through An Indigenist Lens
[astro-ph.IM] There exist numerous proposals for potential technosignatures that we can search for, but they all tend to be deviations from possible n...
Gravitational waves reveal hidden populations within black hole mergers
Since gravitational waves were first detected in 2015, instruments including LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA have picked up a steady stream of signals from coll...
The Role Of Minerals In Prebiotic Evolution: Implications For Identifying Worlds With The Potential For Life’s Origin
[Fundamental Research] Understanding the origin of life requires explaining how abiotic molecules transitioned into the first living systems within pl...
Clarkson professor collaborates with archaeologists in Spain
POTSDAM — Clarkson University Professor Allen Gontz recently joined Spanish archaeologists in Galicia, Spain, to investigate nearly 2,000-year-old R...
Climates Of Temperate Rocky Planets With He-dominated Atmospheres
[astro-ph.EP] We present radiative-convective modeling of rocky exoplanets with He-dominated atmospheres and low envelope mass fractions. Helium has a...
Why are some people mosquito magnets and others unbothered? A medical entomologist points to metabolism, body odor and mindset
Mosquitoes can track down potential hosts using the CO2 released by humans’ metabolic processes, a medical entomologist explains....
Aerosols And Hydrocarbons In The Atmosphere Of A White Dwarf Planet
[astro-ph.EP] Most stars, including our Sun, will one day evolve into red giants and, subsequently, white dwarfs. Several planet candidates have recen...
Leafcutter ants don’t eat the leaves they carry home in long green columns — they feed the clippings to an underground fungus, and it is the fungus they farm and eat, a practice that predates human agriculture by around 50 million years
Leafcutter ants cannot digest the leaves they famously carry — instead they feed the clippings to an underground fungus, Leucoagaricus gongylophorus...
Japan created a national ministerial post for loneliness in 2021, becoming only the second country after Britain to appoint such a minister, after data linked prolonged social isolation to a measurable rise in suicides during the pandemic.
In February 2021, Japan appointed Tetsushi Sakamoto as the world's second cabinet minister for loneliness, three years after Britain created the role....
Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name
It was a "slap in the face." The post Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name appeared first on Futuris...
The rivers on Titan flow, pool into lakes and are fed by rainfall on a slow cycle much like our own, but the liquid is methane and the ground beneath it is water frozen hard as stone
Saturn's moon Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle uncannily like Earth's — but the liquid is methane, the bedrock is fro...
The pale, eyeless olm salamander of Slovenian caves can go up to a decade without eating and lives more than 100 years, spending nearly its entire existence motionless in cold darkness it has never once seen.
In the flooded caves of Slovenia, the blind, pale olm salamander can fast for ten years, sits motionless for years at a time, and lives past 100 in co...
*Who Thinks Like an Economist?*
That is the title of a recent book by Beatrice Magistro. Some key results are: Economic knowledge consistently predicts higher support for welfare-enh...
Video game lets you hunt like a wolf to help science
Built from real predator-prey chases, a new video game lets scientists study how endurance and decision-making shape the outcome of hunts....
If you compressed the entire history of Earth into a single calendar year, humans appear at 11:36 pm on the 31st of December, agriculture at 11:59, and everything written down in history occupies the final 15 seconds before midnight
The most useful thing about compressing Earth’s history into a calendar year is not that the timestamps are perfect. They are not. The value is that...
The word hikikomori was coined by Japanese psychiatrist Tamaki Saito in the late 1990s to describe young people who withdraw completely from society, and he estimated even then that over a million were shut in their rooms across Japan.
In 1998, Japanese psychiatrist Tamaki Saito coined the term hikikomori for young people who withdraw completely from society, estimating over a millio...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, used Mars as a gravitational slingshot in May 2026, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to gain the speed it needed — Mars as a stepping stone rather than a destination
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft did not go to Mars because Mars was the destination. It went there because Mars was in the right place to do what rockets w...
World's 1st fusion factory in Livermore aims to be clean energy source for commercial use
Fusion energy moved from theory to reality at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and now Livermore-based Inertia is working to scale the technolo...
New space policy Substack from Mercatus
We are Rebecca, Max, and Aakrith. We are researchers at The Mercatus Center, a research organization dedicated to classical liberal ideas. Rebecca is ...
Photos: 2,031hp Hennessey Venom F5 is America’s 300mph answer to Bugatti and Koenigsegg
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