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'Feuding tech bros' go head to head in legal showdown. But what does it mean for the future of AI?Elon Musk and Sam Altman battle it out in court, and the outcome could carry significant ramifications for how AI development is shaped.
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Hantavirus cruise: Cruise passengers monitored in at least 5 US states as American passengers set to receive repatriation flightTake a look back at our live coverage from May 7 and May 8 of the Hantavirus cases on board the MV Hondius.
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US government declassifies nearly 200 UFO files, including Apollo astronaut sightingsThe Department of Defense just declassified more than 160 documents, images and recordings related to UFO/UAP sightings dating back to before the Apollo era.
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Some gene therapies no longer require clinical trials, thanks to new FDA rule. Is this safe, and who will it help?The FDA is launching a new framework to deliver tailor-made gene therapies to people with rare genetic disorders. Discussions about whom to treat and how to monitor patients are ongoing.
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Flowering plants transformed into 'hopeful monsters' in 9 dire bursts across evolutionary time, study findsIn hard times, like when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth, some plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. Now, a new paper shows that these monsters are more common than we thought.
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland — and it likely held a fake toothArchaeologists discovered the 20-karat-gold dental wire in the lower jaw of a middle-aged man who lived around 500 years ago in Scotland.
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Live 'quantum network' being tested in New York — overcoming key hurdles could bring us closer to an 'unhackable' internetScientists tested a live quantum internet between three locations across New York, inching closer to an unhackable internet.
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study findsNew research suggests mangroves remove 960,000 tons per year of nitrogen from global water systems, a figure that could rise to more than 5.5 million tons annually if conditions were optimal for the plants.
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Happy 100th birthday, David Attenborough! 13 surprising facts about the famous naturalistAs Sir David Attenborough turns 100, here are 13 surprising facts about the beloved broadcaster and environmental advocate whose voice has shaped how generations see the natural world.
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New AI model spots pancreatic cancer up to 3 years earlier than human doctors in testA new AI tool finds early hints of pancreatic cancer in CT scans that doctors would otherwise miss, an early test found.
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Watch NASA's Curiosity rover 'struggle' to remove a rock that got stuck on its robotic arm for nearly a weekNew footage shows NASA's Curiosity rover tilting, rotating and vibrating its robotic arm as mission scientists tried to remove a rock that became stuck on a drill for six days.
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Gold sword scabbard discovered under toppled tree in Norway was likely 'sacrificed' by an elite warrior 1,500 years agoA hiker poked into a hole in the ground and discovered a rare gold scabbard ornament from Norway's Migration period.
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More doomed Franklin expedition sailors identified, revealing clues about how they tried to find safetyDNA from living descendants of relatives have allowed four members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to be identified.
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'Extremely rare' English coins meant to ward off Vikings found in Denmark — because the Vikings wore them as jewelryTwo rare coins minted in England to ward against Viking raids have been discovered in Denmark, where Vikings made them into jewelry.
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Andes virus — the only hantavirus that can spread between people — identified as culprit on cruise shipLaboratory tests have implicated the Andes virus, a specific type of hantavirus, in the cluster of illnesses on the cruise ship MV Hondius.
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New water battery could last until the 24th century — and it can be safely discarded in the environmentWith no toxic elements to dispose of, the new aqueous battery design could dramatically improve the safety and longevity of battery energy-storage systems.
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The night sky could get three times brighter as new satellites launchExtremely bright satellites and megaconstellations could make the night sky up to three times brighter than it is now, a new study warns. This would seriously hinder astronomical imaging devices, like the enormous camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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The brain's memory center doesn't start as a blank slate, study suggestsEarly in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.
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Quantum battery charges in a quadrillionth of a second with a laser — larger prototypes could last for years after charging for just a minuteQuantum batteries can be charged remotely and could allow for far better energy density than conventional batteries used in devices today.
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