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Ars Technica : Science and Exploration
16 janvier
19h41
Here’s what NASA would like to see SpaceX accomplish with Starship this year
Stephen Clark
The seventh test flight of Starship is scheduled for launch Thursday afternoon.
19h09
Heroes, villains, and childhood trauma in the MCEU and DCU
Jennifer Ouellette
This study somewhat refutes the idea that villains are a product of their experiences. At least in fiction.
16h41
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Stephen Clark
The landers were developed by Texas based Firefly Aerospace and a Japanese startup named ispace.
15 janvier
16h00
Researchers use AI to design proteins that block snake venom toxins
John Timmer
It’s a good example of how computer developments can be used for practical problems.
16h00
Meta takes us a step closer to Star Trek’s universal translator
Jacek Krywko
The computer science behind translating speech from source languages.
15h44
Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think.
Peter Vickers, Henry Taylor, and Sean McMahon, The Conversation
Are scientists speculating, or is there a scientific consensus here
14 janvier
23h21
There was a straight shot from Earth to the Moon and Mars last night
Stephen Clark
Even at its closest point to Earth, Mars looms times farther than the Moon.
22h26
Maker of weight-loss drugs to ask Trump to pause price negotiations: Report
Beth Mole
The next drugs up for negotiation will be released soon and may include a GLP .
18h43
Up close and personal with the stag beetle in A Real Bug’s Life S2
Jennifer Ouellette
It’s just one of the many fascinating insect species featured in the second season of this NatGeo docuseries.
12h20
SpaceX is superb at reusing boosters, but how about building upper stages?
Stephen Clark
SpaceX has launched one of its Falcon boosters for a record breaking th time.
12h00
Not just heat death: Here are five ways the Universe could end
Paul Sutter
Need a pick me up Consider these cheery possibilities.
13 janvier
19h19
Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Jennifer Ouellette
Skull found in ruins of Ephesos in thought to be Arsinoë IV is actually skull of year old boy.
12 janvier
12h07
Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math
Jacek Krywko
Instead of sensing photons and processing the results, why not process the photons
11 janvier
11h45
Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics?
Jennifer Ouellette
Diagrams from Thomas Young’s Lectures bear striking resemblance to abstract figures in af Klint’s work.
10 janvier
19h22
Rocket Report: China launches refueling demo; DoD’s big appetite for hypersonics
Stephen Clark
We’re just a few days away from getting a double dose of heavy lift rocket action.
18h47
Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure
Beth Mole
His skin, hands, nails, and eyes had turned silvery gray from the exposure.
18h30
Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented
John Timmer
An exceptionally hot outlier, means the streak of hottest years goes to .
09 janvier
23h24
Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations
John Timmer
Set to be killed by Trump, the rules mostly lock in existing trends.
22h31
Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire
Eric Berger
I think we’ve got more questions than answers at this point.
21h59
A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly
Stephen Clark
Starship will test its payload deployment mechanism on its seventh test flight.