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Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare
After Palmer Luckey founded Anduril in 2017, he promised it would be a new kind of defense contractor, inspired by hacker ingenuity and Silicon Valley…
Scientists Discover a Stunning River of Stars Flowing Through Space
A stunning river of stars has been spotted flowing through the intergalactic space in a cluster of galaxies about 300 million light years away. Such…
Giant Planet That ‘Should Not Exist’ Is Too Massive For Its Puny Star
Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger…
Dinosaurs Might Be The Reason We’re Not Living to 200 Years Old
There’s a marked difference between how quickly mammals (including ourselves) age and how quickly many species of reptiles and amphibians do. This discrepancy, one scientist…
Wild Hypothesis Links The Bubonic Plague to Modern Oral Health
The deadliest pandemic in recorded history may still continue to plague human oral health centuries later, potentially contributing to some modern cases of gum disease….
A Solar Eclipse, as Seen by a Spacecraft Orbiting 22,000 Miles Away
As the orb of the Moon transited in front of the Sun on Nov. 13, 2023, the Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, aboard the GOES…
US Finally Returns to The Moon Next Month After 50 Long Years Away
More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the United States will try once again to land a craft on the Moon on January…
Dolphins Reveal a Mysterious Hidden Sense: They Can Detect Electric Fields
One of the most well-studied marine mammals in the world has been secretly harboring a superpower sixth sense. Two captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) have…
Common Blood Pressure Drug Increases Lifespan, Slows Aging in Animals
The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically help us live longer and…
These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q* Project
There are other clues to what Q* could be. The name may be an allusion to Q-learning, a form of reinforcement learning that involves an…