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On July 16, 2026, a Falcon 9 carried 21 more satellites into orbit for the Pentagon's first operational low Earth orbit data network, pushing the constellation to half its planned size, even as the optical laser mesh that is supposed to let those satellites talk to one another remains dark and unproven
Sixty-three military data-relay satellites now circle the Earth for the Pentagon's newest space network — half of the planned constellation…
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A 2025 MIT-led study mapped 32,000 skills across 923 occupations and found current AI tools can already perform work representing 11.7 per cent of America’s entire wage bill — about $1.2 trillion a year
A 2025 MIT-led study estimates that current AI tools overlap with skills representing 11.7 per cent of the United States wage bill, or roughly $1.2 trillion a year.
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
For years astronomers kept finding rocky planets in habitable zones and then discovering they were bare, airless cinders. LHS 1140b, announced Thursday in the journal Science, is the first one that isn't: it has an atmosphere, a surface temperature that allows liquid water, and a quiet enough star to keep both
A 2025 MIT-led study mapped 32,000 skills across 923 occupations and found current AI tools can already perform work representing 11.7 per cent of America’s entire wage bill — about $1.2 trillion a year
Seven fragments hidden inside lunar dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission came from a rare, water-rich type of asteroid never before confirmed on the Moon — suggesting these fragile bodies bombarded the ancient Earth–Moon system far more often than Earth’s meteorite record implies
We tend to think dark energy has always pushed the universe outward at the same steady rate, but a 2025 survey of 13.1 million galaxies found it appears to have been stronger for the first nine billion years, then began weakening around 4.5 billion years ago
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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe.
Since 1978, China has planted 66 billion trees to hold back two deserts, and the planted forest is now gaining leaf cover faster than the country's natural woodland
You do not lose most body heat through your head: it leaks only about a tenth, roughly its share of your skin — the myth traces to a 1950s test in which participants were bundled up warm but left bare-headed
A 2025 MIT-led study mapped 32,000 skills across 923 occupations and found current AI tools can already perform work representing 11.7 per cent of America’s entire wage bill — about $1.2 trillion a year
The ancient Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth around 240 BCE, using nothing more than a stick, the sun, and the distance between two Egyptian cities
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