The Universe Is Exploding—And the Vera Rubin Observatory Will Catch It in the Act
The Southern Hemisphere’s night sky is about to get a full diagnostic scan. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, backed by the NSF and DOE, is gearing up for a ten-year surveillance operation. Every night, it will sweep the cosmos, capturing everything from rogue asteroids...
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A futuristic clean energy project is gearing up to invade Chile’s Atacama Desert, and astronomers are panicking. The culprit? A massive green hydrogen plant, set to sprawl across 3,000 hectares, threatening not just the pristine silence of the driest place on Earth...
Scientists Build a Cyborg Hand with Human Muscle—Because Why Not?
Biohybrid robots are exactly what they sound like: Frankensteinian mashups of biology and machinery. Muscles, plant matter, fungi—scientists have been throwing anything vaguely organic into machines to see what sticks. The problem? Keeping the biological bits alive...
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