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 The lead · Space
The Defense Intelligence Agency has published the first clear image of China's Shenlong spaceplane in orbit, revealing a design that closely mirrors the US Space Force's X-37B. |
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Picture of the day 
In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas.
Image: NASA |
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Space
United Launch Alliance announced Wednesday it plans to return its Vulcan rocket to flight on November 13, nine months after a solid rocket booster anomaly led to a stand-down, with a mission to…
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Health & Medicine
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has deployed a team of experts to Nigeria to assist with Ebola containment, as the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo became…
More than 5,000 people have died from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, government data shows, with cases also confirmed in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.
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Earth & Nature
A layer of water that shields the deep ocean from surface heat has been turning saltier, denser and sitting deeper since Antarctic sea ice began its sharp decline in 2016, according to research…
A man in his 20s has died in north London after a tree fell onto his car during Storm Boelo, which continues to cause widespread disruption across the UK.
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Archaeology & Origins
Scientists have extracted ancient human nuclear DNA from a small scoop of cave dirt in Spain, dating to around 22,000 years ago, despite the absence of any human remains in the sediment layer.
An international research team has dated the prehistoric site of 'Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley to at least 1.9 million years old, establishing it as one of the earliest known locations of human…
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Science
IBM researchers have demonstrated a multi-channel quantum interconnect, linking two 120-qubit chips with four superconducting couplers that transfer quantum information at an average accuracy of 99…
New research shows the May 2024 solar superstorm breached Earth's "impenetrable" radiation barrier, with a Japanese satellite recording ultra-relativistic "killer" electrons being accelerated to…
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From the research desk
Schmidgall and colleagues trained a language model through simulated psychiatric conversations, then compared it with its identically prompted, untrained counterpart.
The authors introduce PICLE-PFN, the first foundation model for longitudinal causal effect estimation that supports both static and dynamic treatment policies.
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