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Friend or Foe? Single Neurons in the Brain Control Social Interaction, Study Finds

Neurons live in a society, and scientists just found the ones that may allow us to thrive in our own society. Like humans, individual neurons are strikingly unique. Also like humans, they're constantly in touch with each other. They hook up into neural circuit "friend groups," break apart when things ...

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Friend or Foe? Single Neurons in the Brain Control Social Interaction, Study Finds

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Satellites Can Spy a Menace in West Africa: Invasive Flowers

Spacecraft help researchers monitor environmental problems on Earth, like the overgrowth of non-native species and deforestation.

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Satellites Can Spy a Menace in West Africa: Invasive Flowers

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Climate change: UN emissions gap report a 'thundering wake-up call'

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Climate change: UN emissions gap report a 'thundering wake-up call'

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UN: Net zero pledges on climate give hope, but still vague

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UN: Net zero pledges on climate give hope, but still vague

Science - The Verge

Oura adds period prediction and heart rate to its next-gen smart ring

Oura Oura's Generation 3 smart ring will have a whole new slate of features, including period prediction, blood oxygen monitoring, and real-time heart rate tracking. The new ring will jump from three to seven temperature sensors and add a pulse oxygen sensor, Oura CEO Harpreet ...

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Oura adds period prediction and heart rate to its next-gen smart ring

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Amazon's broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage

An Atlas V launching at night. Project Kuiper has bought nine launches of Atlas V rockets to send its satellites into orbit. | Image: United Launch Alliance Amazon's ambitious satellite venture, called Kuiper, is teaming up with Verizon to further expand 4G / LTE and 5G coverage ...

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Amazon's broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage

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Cruises no longer have to follow COVID-19 rules from January, the CDC said

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Cruises no longer have to follow COVID-19 rules from January, the CDC said

WIRED Science

This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean

It's a 32,000-gallon concrete tank with a wind tunnel grafted on top. With it, researchers can study the seas"and climate change"like never before.

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This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean

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Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint

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Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint

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The African tech firm hoping to power space missions

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The African tech firm hoping to power space missions

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Dutch pension fund to divest from fossil fuel producers

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Dutch pension fund to divest from fossil fuel producers

New York Times Science

How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps

An enormous new analysis of the wiring of the fruit fly brain is a milestone for the young field of modern connectomics, scientists say.

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How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps

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A Future for People With Disabilities in Outer Space Takes Flight

People with different types of disabilities tested their skills and technologies on a zero-gravity research flight with the goal of proving that they can safely go to space.

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A Future for People With Disabilities in Outer Space Takes Flight

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Blue Origin Wants to Build a Space Station

Blue Origin says it will team up with Sierra Space, Boeing and other companies to build an outpost that could help replace the International Space Station.

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Blue Origin Wants to Build a Space Station

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These Singing Lemurs Have Rhythm

For the first time, researchers have found a nonhuman animal that seems to have a sense of the beat.

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These Singing Lemurs Have Rhythm

Science - The Verge

Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef

An artistic rendering of Orbital Reef with one of Boeing's Starliner vehicles visiting. | Image: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos" spaceflight venture Blue Origin announced plans to build its own free-flying space station today. Called Orbital Reef, the future space station will begin operating ...

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Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef

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Neutron star collisions are 'goldmine' of heavy elements, study finds

Most elements lighter than iron are forged in the cores of stars, but scientists have puzzled over what could give rise to gold, platinum, and the rest of the universe's heavy elements. study finds that of two long-suspected sources of heavy metals, one of them -- a merger between two neutron stars -- ...

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Neutron star collisions are 'goldmine' of heavy elements, study finds

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That primate's got rhythm!

What are the origins of musical rhythm" Are humans the only mammals that have rhythm" Researchers have studied indris, the 'singing primates' from Madagascar to learn more. Indri songs recorded in the wild have rhythmic categories similar to those found in human music. Finding common musical traits across ...

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That primate's got rhythm!

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Vitamin D deficiency for the first time visible after cremation

The cremation process destroys a lot of information that can usually be obtained from the human skeleton. Especially diseases are difficult to observe. Researchers have now found a way to reveal some of the information. For the first time, they have succeeded in detecting vitamin D deficiency in cremated ...

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Vitamin D deficiency for the first time visible after cremation

New York Times Science

Behold, the Worm Blob and Its Computerized Twin

It wriggles. It pulls. It falls apart and comes back together. It is everything you wish for and everything you fear.

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Behold, the Worm Blob and Its Computerized Twin

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Not So Mysterious After All: Researchers Show How to Crack AI's Black Box

The deep learning neural networks at the heart of modern artificial intelligence are often described as "black boxes" whose inner workings are inscrutable. But new research calls that idea into question, with significant implications for privacy. Unlike traditional software whose functions are predetermined ...

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Not So Mysterious After All: Researchers Show How to Crack AI's Black Box

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Amazon announces Alexa program for hospitals and senior care

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has two new programs that integrate Alexa into hospitals and senior living communities, the company announced today. They're run through Alexa Smart Properties, which allows organizations to control a centralized Alexa system. "Early ...

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Amazon announces Alexa program for hospitals and senior care

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A Cosmic Ray Event Pinpoints the Viking Landing in Canada

The celestial storm produced carbon-14 atoms found in the rings of a tree felled by Norse explorers, proving they made it to North America 1,000 years ago.

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A Cosmic Ray Event Pinpoints the Viking Landing in Canada

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The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe

Some have called NASA's James Webb Space Telescope the 'telescope that ate astronomy.? It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering. On Dec. 18, 2021, after years of delays and billions of dollars in cost ...

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The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built Will Look Back in Time to the Dark Ages of the Universe

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How Wavelets Let Researchers Transform and Understand Data

Built upon the ubiquitous Fourier transform, these mathematical tools allow unprecedented analysis of continuous signals.

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How Wavelets Let Researchers Transform and Understand Data

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Stretchy, bendy, flexible LEDs

Engineers have developed a way to print stretchy LEDs on unconventional surfaces using an inkjet printer.

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Stretchy, bendy, flexible LEDs