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  1. Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain

    Precision expects its minimally invasive brain implant to hit the market next year.

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  2. Dinosaurs needed to be cold enough that being warm-blooded mattered

    Two groups of dinosaurs moved to cooler climes during a period of climate change.

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  3. The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in US

    Researchers are working to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.

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  4. “Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods

    Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances.

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  5. NASA finds more issues with Boeing’s Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1

    Fixing the helium leak would delay Starliner crew test flight for months.

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  6. SpaceX sets date for next Starship flight, explains what went wrong the last time

    Clearing blocked filters and clogged valves is the order of the day.

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  7. After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

    No, really, drinking raw milk during the H5N1 outbreak is a bad idea.

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  8. Rocket Report: SpaceX focused on Starship reentry; Firefly may be for sale

    "Teams are in the process of completing a follow-on propulsion system assessment."

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  9. Daily Telescope: The initial results from Europe’s Euclid telescope are dazzling

    "Euclid’s instruments can detect objects just a few times the mass of Jupiter."

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  10. US officials: A Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon

    "Naming space as a warfighting domain was kind of forbidden, but that's changed."

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  11. Chocolate made with fewer calories, less waste

    “Whole fruit chocolate” uses cocoa pulp and inner shell in lieu of sugar.

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  12. Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear

    In the parasite vs. bear vs. human battle, the grizzly parasite comes out on top.

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  1. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs

    Taking a weight-loss drug? Food makers have just the new food for you.

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  2. New warp drive concept does twist space, doesn’t move us very fast

    While it won't make a useful spaceship engine, it may tell us more about relativity.

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  3. Second human case of bird flu linked to cows found—via text messages

    Like the first case, the farm worker in Michigan only had an eye infection.

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  4. Lizard that Hulks out shows off its superhero genes

    A subspecies of reptiles in Italy is much bigger and greener than its relatives.

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  5. Whale songs have features of language, but whales may not be speaking

    The features that whale calls share with language are very abstract.

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  6. The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule remains on hold

    June 1 is the earliest possible launch date for Starliner's crewed flight test.

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  7. Non-invasive zaps to the spinal cord can treat paralysis—but no one knows why

    The benefits may seem small, but they can make a world of difference, patients say.

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  8. We get more useful energy out of renewables than fossil fuels

    It costs less energy to get fossil fuels, but we can't use them as efficiently.

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  9. Surviving reentry is the key goal for SpaceX’s fourth Starship test flight

    Elon Musk says SpaceX aims to launch the fourth Starship test flight in about two weeks.

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  10. Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now

    Sometime between May and September, a white dwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.

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  11. Daily Telescope: Black holes have been merging for a long, long time

    Webb wows us again.

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  12. Single brain implant restores bilingual communication to paralyzed man

    Tracking syllables of words lets English and Spanish training assist each other.

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  1. Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1st

    Algorithm tweaks made up for the loss, and Neuralink thinks it has fix for next patient.

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  2. BLM ends future coal mining on Powder River Basin federal lands

    The move compounds pressure on coal communities to diversify their economies.

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  3. Blue Origin resumes human flights to suborbital space, but it wasn’t perfect

    Blue Origin's space capsule safely landed despite a problem with one of its parachutes.

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  4. The Atlantic hurricane season begins soon—hold on to your butts

    One reputable forecast team predicts 33 named storms.

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  5. East Coast has a giant offshore freshwater aquifer—how did it get there?

    For water-stressed cities, undersea aquifers could be a submerged solution.

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  6. We take a stab at decoding SpaceX’s ever-changing plans for Starship in Florida

    "On Artemis III, we anticipate using at least two of the launch sites: one at KSC and one at Starbase."

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  7. How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu

    Ryugu's parent body appears to have had a fair amount of water present, too.

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  8. The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can

    In his new book, Christof Koch views consciousness as a theorist and an aficionado.

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  9. “Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care

    Prices would need to be dramatically slashed to avoid increasing the national deficit.

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  10. Cats playing with robots proves a winning combo in novel art installation

    Cat Royale project explores what it takes to trust a robot to look after beloved pets.

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  11. Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers

    Using subjective phrasing like "scientists believe" makes facts seem like opinions.

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  12. Rocket Report: Starship stacked; Georgia shuts the door on Spaceport Camden

    United Launch Alliance is under pressure to ramp up the flight rate for the new Vulcan rocket.

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