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Why does the United States want to buy Greenland?

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 11:00am
The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of minerals and oil in the near future
Categories: Astronomy

Quantum neural network may be able to cheat the uncertainty principle

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 11:00am
Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum objects that are otherwise fundamentally hard to access
Categories: Astronomy

Man whose gut made its own alcohol gets relief from faecal transplant

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 10:00am
A man with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut microbes produce intoxicating levels of alcohol, has been successfully treated with faeces from a super donor
Categories: Astronomy

'Knitted' satellite launching to monitor Earth's surface with radar

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 8:00am
A standard industrial knitting machine has been modified to produce fabrics from tungsten wire coated in gold, which are used to form the dish on the CarbSAR satellite
Categories: Astronomy