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Swarms of tiny robots remove microplastics from soil and water
Microplastics, which are plastic particles under 5 millimeters, are a major and growing threat in both soil and water. They damage soil fertility, …
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AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets into English
A new technology meets old languages. Cuneiform is one of the earliest writing systems in human history. Archaeologists have traced its beginnings to …
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Do You Want To Go To Mars Without Actually Going?
Of course you want to fly in a rocket ship and live on Mars, but would you actually do it? You can't put off the answer any longer, because NASA is recruiting right now. Four good
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A Mars rover just saw Earth dance with a Martian Moon – then disappear behind it
Earth has danced with a Martian moon and disappeared behind it – that is, at least, from the perspective of a robotic rover on the surface of the Red …
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I built a Claude agent to manage my inbox — and it changed how I handle email
AI power users are heavily invested in prompting agents to autonomously work toward a goal, adjust course based on results, and repeat the cycle, a …
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Spirit’s Old Data Redraws Mars’s Watery Past
Rover data from more than 20 years ago has revealed clues to the existence of liquid water on ancient Mars. NASA’s Spirit rover carried a specialized …
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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous. Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a …
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NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes
These tiny capes carry some serious technology. Picture it: A swarm of tiny robot helicopters descends through a reddish-brown sky, landing gracefully …
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The 15-Minute AI System That Keeps Your Million-Dollar Goal on Track (Beginner Friendly)
AI is quietly giving solopreneurs a chief of staff. Here’s how to build yours (no staff, no code). Key Takeaways The 15-minute, no-code setup that turns one Google Sheet and one se
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Inside AI: Expert gives tips on practical ways to use artificial intelligence
Inside AI: Expert gives tips on practical ways to use artificial intelligence
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NASA's Backup Mars Rover May Get Its Chance To Shine (On The Moon)
Nobody likes to be the reserve driver. You don't want to sit back and be "support" while some other guy goes and gets all the glory; you want to show …
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"Like The Top Of A Martian Honeycomb": NASA's Curiosity Rover Discovers Odd, Polygonal Structures On Mars
Investigating an area of interesting light rock seen from orbit, Curiosity found some particularly weird-looking structures.
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SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite
Who needs solar power anyway? The world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite has reached orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The …
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Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks
This has been a persistent, behind-the-scenes dispute between NASA and Roscosmos. Ten days ago, in a moment of very high drama in orbit, NASA directed …
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JPL’s open house is finally coming back again. Here’s how to get free tickets to the NASA tradition.
It’s about as in-demand as World Cup or Olympics tickets but with only a single zero in its price tag: The free open house at NASA’s Jet Propulsion …
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In Kenya, an experiment aims to turn sand into fertile soil
Extreme heat, salinity, little water and no soil — yet crops are sprouting. Forget fertilizers: This Kenyan project uses algae and biology to revive barren land.
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9 Shipping Container Homes That Marry Smart Architecture and Serious Beauty
It’s not everyday that someone dreams of living in shipping-container homes, or working in shipping-container offices. But architect Virginie Stolz would prompt most to reconsider.
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AI cracked an Erdős math problem. Now experts want guardrails
The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.
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Mysterious signals keep coming from space: Astronomers find their 'Rosetta stone'
A pair of stars spiraling around each other. That's the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we've detected, called ASKAP J1745. In recent …
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Pioneering grid battery nudges California closer to 24/7 clean energy
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of …
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I Tested Microsoft's New AI Models, and They're Surprisingly Mediocre
Microsoft released a suite of fresh MAI models at Build 2026. They work fine, but they can't compete with Claude and Gemini. Microsoft unveiled plenty …
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‘We didn’t see this coming’: Wall Street eats its forecasts as stocks sell off globally on fear of AI bubble ahead of SpaceX IPO
Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today: Markets: Red alert over global selloff. • “We didn’t see this coming”: Economists are eating their job …
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AI-Designed Vaccines Are Already Here
Wherever you stand on the role of AI in the future of humanity, it has undeniably proved useful in the field of medical research. And now a team of researchers from the University
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Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine
The deal gives Google access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs through mid-2029 and lands one week before SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO. SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a
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Claude Cowork for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Automating Your Workflow (2026)
Most of us still use artificial intelligence (AI) in the same old way. We open a chat window of an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT, ask a …
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