NASA Is Training an AI to Detect Fresh Craters on Mars
For the past 15 years, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been doing laps around the Red Planet studying its climate
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Vaping Doesn’t Keep Young People From Smoking Cigarettes Later
In the 1970s, a company called Swedish Match started advertising snus to Swedish men. Snus wasn’t a new product; the
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Biden’s Covid Plan Will Define His Presidency
On Day Zero of the presidential administration of Joe Biden, the single priority of the federal government must be Covid-19.
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The Ongoing Collapse of the World’s Aquifers
But scientists haven’t modeled global risks of subsidence—until now. To build their model, Sneed and her colleagues scoured the existing
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It’s Not Just You: Everyone’s Mental Health Is Suffering
This is the first sentence I’ve written this week. I wrote it on a Thursday. Like many people right now,
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The Autonomous Saildrone Surveyor Preps for Its Sea Voyage
If you happen to be crossing the San Francisco Bay or Golden Gate bridges this week, look for a massive
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Covid, Schools, and the High-Stakes Experiment No One Wanted
Reopening in the fall was a massive gamble. At one high-poverty elementary school, navigating the risks paid off. Source link
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Virgin Orbit Just Launched a Rocket From a 747
On Sunday morning, Virgin Orbit became the third privately funded American rocket company to reach orbit—and the only one to
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The Crooked, Complex Geometry of Round Trips
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if Earth weren’t shaped like a sphere? We take for granted
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The Physics of Reddit’s Spinning Solar System Icon
This data looks nice and linear. That means that the inner and outer planets orbit at a constant rotational rate
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