Namibian fairy circle debate rages on: Sand termites or Turing mechanism? [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
Study offers four-point rebuttal to 2022 claim that they're a kind of eco-Turing pattern.
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Study offers four-point rebuttal to 2022 claim that they're a kind of eco-Turing pattern.
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter....
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.
Antitrust enforcers released a draft update outlining new rules today that officials say will make it easier to crack down on mergers and acquisitions that could substantially lessen competition in the US.
Merger rules currently stacked in favor of monopolists, critics say.
Details of a potential US-Indian partnership in human spaceflight remain murky.
Initial hopes of 1 million shipments in 2024 dashed by manufacturing problems....
Webb turned its gold-coated mirror toward Saturn this week.
The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off.
“The former NBCUniversal advertising head, who started as chief executive on June 5, is seeking to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads that would be shown to users scrolling through Twitter’s new short-video feed, according to three people familiar with the situation.”...
Why is a planet orbiting a star that should have gone through a giant phase?
The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached.
Developer has ported modern SSL/TLS libraries to Windows 3.1 to get it working.
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.
This futuristic new liquid-metal coating can make ordinary objects extraordinary.
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