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The Parker Solar Probe's new top speed could get you from NYC to LA in just 20 seconds. It's not done yet.

The Basic HTML function was helpful for people dealing with a slow internet connection but wanted to read their email.

The F-35 that was recently unaccounted for is not the first jet to require a search or recovery, as have drones and even nuclear weapons.

The CDC says the draft guidelines are not final. Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.

Researchers have found that anti-bird spikes are being co-opted for pro-bird purposes: They’re showing up as building materials in nests.

This drone is small, quiet, and highly maneuverable. Back in April, it even explored the collapsed parking garage in New York City.

A new wormy robot could help with jet engine inspections at GE Aerospace, according to an announcement this week. Sensiworm, short for “Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm,” is the newest outgrowth in GE’s line of worm robots, which includes a “giant earthworm” for tunneling and the “Pipeworm” for...

The mummified remains were found alongside preserved textiles, ceramic vessels, and other objects at the Huaca Pucllana monument.

Designed by researchers at Bangor University, Trisofuel could help provide energy not only on the moon and Mars, but both here on Earth.

Paleontologists are still on the hunt for a complete skeleton of one of these herbivorous European dinosaurs that went extinct in two waves.

Article on popular science: prompt injection attacks are a new risk associated with the interation if llms into other services. •prompt injection attacks imply the use of a prompt that bypass safety restrictions of a given ai / llm, which cannot differentiate between illicit instructions and inputs. •a proper prompt...

The shrimp-sized, strong-armed creature dating back 520 million years is filling in some evolutionary gaps.

Archaeologists can still decode the secrets of the past with burned prehistoric remains, but only with the help of other fields.

They have already invested $800 million in the secretive urban project, while recently revealed plans remain vague.

When it comes to building a sustainable settlement on Mars, the technological and engineering challenges are steep. But they take a back seat to the Human Resources department. Forget sophisticated vehicles or sensitive instrumentation—the most temperamental, fragile things we send to the Red Planet will be humans....

When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given this uninhabited island to feral cattle?

Retrofitted with 123-foot ‘WindWings,' 'Pyxis Ocean' is testing two giant sails on its six-week journey from China to Brazil.

Although funded by the military, this design could one day be applied to commercial flight as well.

The AP's Vice President for Standards and Inclusion estimates their AI committee could issue updates as often as every three months.

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'