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SpaceX's attempt to launch its Starship rocket in South Texas was delayed due to a ground system issue, though the company plans to try again as soon as Friday evening. Separately, Firefly Aerospace expanded its Texas fo…
Identical twins Merav and Michal Mor, both physiology PhDs and triathletes, co-founded the healthtech company Lumen, which uses a breath-test device to track whether the body is burning carbs or fat for energy. Despite s…
According to the article, all modern scientific measurement ultimately relies on two Stone-Age techniques: comparison and counting. For example, measuring length involves comparing an object to a ruler, while reading an …
The article argues that Boolean logic, which categorizes statements as strictly true or false, is an inadequate and often coercive framework for understanding the real world. It contends that a statement's truth depends …
The article contrasts the simple, focused lifestyles of engineers and scientists—who prioritize mental energy by minimizing decisions like clothing—with the consumer-driven culture of social media, which profits by creat…
A study published in *Mindfulness* found that breath-watching meditation can alter brain activity within two minutes, with neural changes peaking around the seven-minute mark regardless of the practitioner's experience l…
At Google I/O, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis highlighted the company's AI weather prediction tool, WeatherNext, which provided advance warning for Hurricane Melissa and potentially saved lives. The event showcased a shift …
The Enhanced Games, set to take place in Las Vegas, is a sporting competition where 42 athletes are encouraged to use FDA-approved performance-enhancing drugs to break world records. The event features four categories—sw…
SpaceX launched the twelfth test flight of its Starship rocket, a third-generation prototype called V3, from its facility in Brownsville, Texas. The company states that this version is larger and more powerful, marking a…
SpaceX filed its S-1 on Wednesday, revealing $18.7 billion in revenue for 2025 alongside a $4.9 billion loss due to heavy AI investment, and estimating a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion. The filing shows Elon …
An AI model developed by OpenAI has autonomously produced a novel proof refuting a conjecture in geometry posed by mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946, which had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years. The proof, which conne…
Cleve Moler, the co-founder of MathWorks and creator of the MATLAB programming language, has died. He was a pioneering figure in numerical computing and mathematics software. His work revolutionized engineering and scien…
SpaceX aborted the first launch attempt of its upgraded Starship V3 rocket on Thursday due to a hydraulic pin issue on the launch tower's umbilical arm, with the countdown halting five times before the mission was scrubb…
An OpenAI model disproved the 1946 Erdős unit-distance conjecture, a major open problem in combinatorial geometry, by constructing point sets that exceed the previously believed upper bound for unit distances. The model …
A neuroimaging study of 63 adolescents found that the link between impulsivity and future suicidal thoughts depends on how the brain's right anterior insula reacts to loss. Teens whose anterior insula showed strong activ…
Several U.S. schools have canceled or pressured speakers to withdraw from graduation speeches due to student complaints about their political views, including controversial remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and…
Scientists have developed an AI tool that analyzes electronic health records to predict adult ADHD months before a formal diagnosis, using patterns in routine healthcare visits. The model, published in *European Psychiat…
Google DeepMind is launching its first Accelerator program in the Asia-Pacific region, titled "AI for the Planet," to address the region's growing environmental risks. The three-month program will support startups, resea…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists led by Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Sagnick Mukherjee mapped the weather on WASP-94A b, a hot, tidally locked gas giant located roughly 690 light-years away. The study, pu…
According to a study published in *Frontiers in Psychology*, young women who perceive their mothers as having highly self-centered, narcissistic traits are more likely to struggle with emotional stability in early adulth…