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Why digital government records are so hard to preserve
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (456+ words) History depends on records that weren't built to last Chat apps, email, and cloud files have become the primary record of how power is exercised. Archivists are trying to preserve them before formats go dark or messages disappear without a…...
The White House goes all in on aliens with new UAP Science Advisory Council
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (728+ words) This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U. S. intelligence community, as well as to publish its findings in peer-reviewed journals By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron If the…...
Global ocean temperatures are entering "uncharted territory," climate scientists say
20+ hour, 1+ min ago (165+ words) Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records The world's average ocean temperature shattered records in June, according to two European Union Earth monitoring systems, the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine…...
Earth is home to 20 million insect species'three times more than we thought
20+ hour, 49+ min ago (279+ words) Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on Earth By Elizabeth Anne Brown edited by Andrea Thompson The new calculations, detailed in a study published on Monday in Proceedings of…...
Astronomers just began the largest cosmic time-lapse in history
22+ hour, 45+ min ago (111+ words) The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started a 10-year survey of the changing night sky By Clara Moskowitz edited by Lee Billings The biggest and best movie of the universe began production this week'at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory…...
This planet survived the death of its star'and kept its atmosphere
1+ day, 45+ min ago (676+ words) Astronomers have for the first time observed an atmosphere around a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf By Sam Macdonald edited by Claire Cameron The universe has a flair for the unlikely. In 2020, astronomers found something baffling: A gas giant…...
Supreme Court limits police searches of phone location data
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (615+ words) The Supreme Court just limited police access to your phone's location trail A new ruling rules that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, but it stops short of banning police access to revealing location histories By Sam Macdonald edited by…...
Scientists just unveiled "cyborg" cockroaches that can breathe underwater for hours
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (410+ words) The bionic bugs could be called up for aquatic search and rescue missions, according to the researchers What's more unnerving than a giant cockroach? Perhaps a part-robot, part-insect giant cockroach capable of diving underwater for as much as three hours…...
Why this 98-qubit quantum computer is a big deal
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (871+ words) A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy. Are we on the verge of a big breakthrough? Helios is a quantum computer with a 98-qubit processing chip. In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air,…...
New York City could see its hottest weather in more than a decade
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (269+ words) Temperatures in New York's Central Park haven't surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit since 2012; but that may be about to change The heat in New York City is expected to surpass 100 degrees Fahrenheit (around 38 degrees Celsius) this week'potentially breaking the record for the…...