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Hospital superbug can feed on medical plastic, first-of-its-kind study revealsPseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with 559,000 yearly deaths worldwide, and many of them come from hospital-acquired infections. A new study suggests it may be thriving in sterile environments by feeding on medical plastics.
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'Yet another miracle save': NASA engineers complete nail-biting maneuver to resurrect Voyager 1's long-dead thrustersMore than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA engineers brought them miraculously back to life.
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China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on the moon — potentially leaving the US in the dustA new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.
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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes back to Earth, disappearing into Indian Ocean after 53 years in orbitThe failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian Ocean early Saturday morning.
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World's largest atom smasher turned lead into gold — and then destroyed it in an instantThe world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed.
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'It was deliberately hidden': Gold hoard of nearly 600 coins found in Czech Republic may date to World War IIA coin stash worth more than $340,000 could have been hidden in the hills of the Czech Republic during one of the 20th century’s greatest upheavals. Historians are attempting to unravel the mystery.
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Groundbreaking atomic clock is off by less than 1 second every 100 million yearsThe National Institute of Standards and Technology's new cesium fountain clock is one of the most precise atomic clocks ever created.
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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study findsExposure to extreme climate events will increase two to seven times more for those born in 2020 compared with those in 1960, a new study warns.
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Doomed Soviet spacecraft tumbling toward Earth may already have its parachute ouNewly published images suggest that an unknown structure is trailing behind the Kosmos 482 probe on its descent to Earth. It could be the doomed craft's parachute.
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AI researchers ran a secret experiment on Reddit users — and the results are creepyUniversity of Zurich researchers secretly unleashed an army of manipulative chatbots on the r/changemyview subreddit — and they were more persuasive than humans at getting people to change their minds.
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Doomed Soviet satellite from 1972 will tumble uncontrollably to Earth next week — and it could land almost anywhereThe lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery reentry to Earth.
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Mini ice age was final death blow to Roman Empire, unusual rocks in Iceland suggestRocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.
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Scientists create ultra-tough copper alloy that is stronger than steel and can withstand temperatures of 1500 FThe new super-strong copper alloy can be used to build better airplanes and spacecraft.
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'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physicsWhy matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.
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'Secrets of the Penguins' will take penguin observations 'to another level,' executive producer James CameronA three-part documentary on penguins' hidden lives will reveal a number of never-before-seen moments. Here's what executive producer James Cameron said about what to expect.
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Curiosity rover finds largest carbon chains on Mars from 3.7 billion-year-old rockNASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.
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NASA rover reveals signs of crucial life-sustaining process on MarsSamples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from orbital scans, alongside clues of how life may have been wiped out on the planet.
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Inequality isn't inevitable in civilizations, 10,000 years of archaeological evidence revealsA study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.
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Elusive neutrinos' mass just got halved — and it could mean physicists are close to solving a major cosmic mysteryPhysicists have set a new upper limit on the mass of neutrinos. And the finding could poke a big hole in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Astronomers are shocked to find our galaxy's nearest neighbor is being torn to shredsAn analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.
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Physicists create hottest Schrödinger's cat ever in quantum breakthroughPhysicists have replicated the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment at hotter temperatures than ever before. The breakthrough is a small but significant step toward quantum computers that can work at normal temperatures.
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Quantum computing breakthrough could make 'noise' — forces that disrupt calculations — a thing of the pastUseful quantum networks are hobbled by the problem of decoherence from environmental "noise." But a new breakthrough could change that.
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Using AI reduces your critical thinking skills, Microsoft study warnsA survey of workers who use AI has revealed the tools could be slowly impairing our critical thinking skills.
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NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and starsSPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the telescope is working according to its design.
