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Scientists Ask For Help Classifying Galaxies From the Cosmic Noon

Universe Today Feed - 10 hours 11 min ago

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is coming in hot and heavy at this point, with various data streams from multiple instruments being reported in various papers. One exciting one will be released shortly in the Astrophysical Journal from researchers at the University of Kansas (KU), where researchers collected mid-infrared images of a part of the sky that holds galaxies from the time of the "cosmic noon" about 10 billion years ago. Their paper describes this survey and invites citizen scientists to help catalogue and classify some of their findings.

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How Can the Sun Become a Telescope?

Universe Today Feed - 10 hours 28 min ago

How can we turn the sun into a telescope?

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'Periodic table of machine learning' could fuel AI discovery

After uncovering a unifying algorithm that links more than 20 common machine-learning approaches, researchers organized them into a 'periodic table of machine learning' that can help scientists combine elements of different methods to improve algorithms or create new ones.
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Innovative approaches advance search for ice on the moon

Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the Moon. Water ice would be an important resource at a future lunar base, as it could be used to support humans or be broken down to hydrogen and oxygen, key components of rocket fuel. Researchers are now using two innovative approaches to advance the search for ice on the Moon.
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Current AI risks more alarming than apocalyptic future scenarios

Most people generally are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence than they are about a theoretical future in which AI threatens humanity. A new study reveals that respondents draw clear distinctions between abstract scenarios and specific tangible problems and particularly take the latter very seriously.
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New electronic 'skin' could enable lightweight night-vision glasses

Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy conditions.
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However Life Got Started on Earth, it Didn't Take Long

Universe Today Feed - 15 hours 14 min ago

At some early point in Earth's history, a collection of increasingly complex chemicals performed a new trick. They transformed themselves somehow into an energy-producing and self-replicating cell. The timing of this critical moment in Earth's history is hidden behind the haze of billions of years.

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What Do Famous Astronomical Objects Look Like... in 3D?

Universe Today Feed - 16 hours 14 min ago

It’s a cosmic shame, that we tend to only see flat-looking, 2-dimensional views of deep-sky objects. And while we can’t just zoom out past the Andromeda galaxy for another perspective, or see the Crab Nebula from another vantage point in space, we can use existing data to simulate objects in 3D. A recent collection released by Marshall Space Flight Center’s Chandra X-ray Center and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows us familiar objects in a new way.

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Self-Treating with Serious Drugs on the Rise

Science-based Medicine Feed - 17 hours 34 min ago

One of the greatest innovations benefiting public health was regulation. In the pre-FDA “patent medicine” days, there were countless products on the market that ranged from useless to directly harmful. This was a time when you could sell radioactive tonics, cocaine-laced elixirs, and products containing poisons, like turpentine. The sellers of these products made many unsupported claims and preyed disproportionately on the […]

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Powerful blasts of X-rays could reveal a black hole waking from sleep

New Scientist Feed - 19 hours 56 min ago
Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now astronomers have seen the most powerful one of these signals ever, and have a new idea about their cause
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Chinese Engineers Used Gravitational Slingshots to Rescue a Pair of Satellites

Universe Today Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 6:39pm

When China's DRO-A and B satellites were launched, their rocket failed to deliver them to their planned orbit. Even worse, the satellites were spinning out of control, unable to properly charge their solar panels. Engineers realized that there was still a way to put them on course again. They executed a series of gravitational slingshots over 123 days, using the Sun, Earth, and the Moon to raise the spacecraft's orbits and put them into their proper trajectory.

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Jupiter's Atmosphere is a Wild Place

Universe Today Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 3:31pm

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked fierce lightning, and found huge methane plume storms rising from deep beneath the clouds. How weird? Think: mushballs raining down like hailstones. They're made of ammonia and water encased in a water ice shell. According to planetary scientists, these mushballs plunge through the Jovian atmosphere. What's more, they probably form on the other gas and ice giants, too.

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More Evidence that Snow and Water Formed Many of Mars's Landscapes

Universe Today Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 1:58pm

The evidence is building that the surface of Mars was warm and wet for its early history. But what form did this water take? In a new study, geologists propose that Mars has very similar features to places like Utah on Earth, where precipitation from snow or rain formed the patterns of valleys and headwaters that have been mapped from space. Some of these features would require meters deep of flowing water to deposit large boulders.

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We can build quantum computers using the rules of special relativity

New Scientist Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 1:00pm
Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of quantum computer – and it could also lead to new insights into the quantum realm
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Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-to videos

Matter and energy from Science Daily Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:59pm
Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks by watching a single how-to video.
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Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-to videos

Computers and Math from Science Daily Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:59pm
Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks by watching a single how-to video.
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New technique expands tissues so hundreds of biomolecules can be seen inside cells

Matter and energy from Science Daily Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:58pm
A new tissue expansion method enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level in their native locations.
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The Sun's Natural Gravitational Lensing is More Powerful Than You Thought

Universe Today Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:22pm

Let’s turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don’t have to do any work – we just have to be in the right spot.

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First Light from NASA's New PUNCH Mission

Universe Today Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:04pm

Studying the Sun is becoming increasingly important as more and more of our infrastructure moves off the surface and into the realm where coronal mass ejections and the solar wind can begin to affect them. Scientists recognize this problem and have started devoting more and more resources to studying the Sun, specifically the "space weather" that might affect us. Recently, one of the newest members of the group of satellites focused on studying the Sun hit a milestone when the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission took on its first light.

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Phone game lowers social anxiety by shifting focus on to the positive

New Scientist Feed - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:00pm
The game, called StarStarter, rewards players for directing their attention away from negative stimuli and towards positive ones
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