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How a US agriculture agency became key in the fight against bird flu

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 5:00pm
Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent the spread than public health agencies are
Categories: Astronomy

Earth’s mantle may have hidden plumes venting heat from its core

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 3:37pm
A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought
Categories: Astronomy

Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 3:00pm
Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more powerful quantum computers and simulators
Categories: Astronomy

Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 2:00pm
There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet's volcano for the first time
Categories: Astronomy

Microwaves seem to experience imaginary time – and now we know how

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 1:00pm
Almost a decade ago, researchers calculated that microwaves can seemingly spend an imaginary amount of time within a material – now an experiment reveals how the phenomenon is perfectly real
Categories: Astronomy

Blood vessel organoids quickly minimise damage to injured tissue

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 12:00pm
Blood vessels grown in the lab in just five days could quickly prevent the tissue damage that can occur after an accident
Categories: Astronomy

Is superintelligent AI just around the corner, or just a sci-fi dream?

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 10:30am
Tech CEOs are promising increasingly outlandish visions of the 2030s, powered by "superintelligence", but the reality is that even the most advanced AI models can still struggle with simple puzzles
Categories: Astronomy