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NASA's Perseverance rover looks back while climbing slippery slope

Karen Fox, Molly Wasser, DC Agle

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater's western wall with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. During the climb, the rover snapped not only ...[Continue Reading]

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Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil

James Dinneen

A bacteriophage virus can kill microbes, influencing what happens to the carbon their bodies contain nobeastsofierce Science/Alamy Viruses that infect other microbes may influence the movement of m ...[Continue Reading]

New Scientist

1 day ago

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90s Video Game Doom Is Famous For Being Able To Run On Any System, So Researchers Put It To The Test And Ran it On A Neural Network

Michael Levanduski

Almost everyone who grew up in the 1990s knows about the iconic 1993 video game Doom. By todays standards, the game is ancient, the graphics laughable, and the storyline simple. The reality is, ho ...[Continue Reading]

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1 day ago


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Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life

sascha.pare@futurenet.com (Sascha Pare)

A robotics company has created a fully movable, ultra-creepy humanoid torso that looks like it's straight out of the television series "Westworld," a new video shows. Clone Robotics a startup foun ...[Continue Reading]

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1 day ago


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Daylight Saving Time Ends This WeekendHeres Why It Happens

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes Staff, Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/

We will officially fall back one hour on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, at 2 a.m. local time, as Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends. getty I walked the dog by flashlight this morning. Thats because, in my area ...[Continue Reading]

Forbes

1 day ago


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Citizen science platforms reveal more resources needed to protect birds in Germany

University of Gttingen

Member states of the European Union are obliged to designate Special Protection Areas (SPAs) as part of the Natura 2000 network. These areas are designed to guarantee the preservation and restoration ...[Continue Reading]

Phys.Org

1 day ago