Watch Live as NASA’s Artemis 2 Moon Rocket Rolls Out to the Launch Pad
Ellyn Lapointe / gizmodo - The final stage of launch preparations officially kicks off tomorrow.
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Nuclera Raises $87M Series C To Advance Antibody Research
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Biotech firm Nuclera has raised an additional $12 million increasing its total Series C funding to $87 million. The extension round was led by Elevage Medical Technologies and Jonathan Milner with participation from existing investors including British Bu…
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Canadian ice master makes Olympic history with the Games' 1st indoor temporary speedskating rink
go - Olympic officials have brought on ice master Mark Messer to prepare the speed skating rink for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games
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FluoSphera zips CHF 1.15M seed for 3D human organ models that cut drug failures
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Developing new medicines is a long and costly process, taking 10 to 15 years and billions of dollars.…
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Medical Evacuation from Space Station Next Week for Astronaut in Stable Condition
EditorDavid / slashdot - It will be the first medical evacuation from the International space station in its 25-year history. The Guardian reports:An astronaut in the orbital laboratory reportedly fell ill with a "serious" but undisclosed issue. Nasa also had to cancel its first …
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NASA to bring ISS Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth earlier than planned after medical situation
cnbc - NASA earlier delayed a planned spacewalk with ISS Commander Mike Fincke and flight engineer Zena Cardman.
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Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in do-over after Musk feud
go - The Senate has confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to serve as NASA administrator
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OpenAI introduces FrontierScience benchmark. Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks
/u/salehrayan246 / reddit - Link: https://openai.com/index/frontierscience/ As far as I'm concerned, all current 5.2 benchmarks are misleading because: They use xHigh reasoning, which supposedly has the same reasoning budget as GPT5.2-Pro on the website. Currently for me, 5.2 Thinki…
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NASA Loses Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter
BeauHD / slashdot - NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter after it passed behind Mars. When it remerged from behind the planet, the spacecraft never resumed communications. SpaceNews reports: MAVEN launched in November 2013 and entered orbit around Mars in Septem…
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NASA unveils close-up pictures of the comet popping by from another star
go - NASA is unveiling close-up pictures of the interstellar comet that's making a quick one-and-done tour of our solar system
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NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and theyre going a new way
mashable - A NASA mission will send twin spacecraft to Mars to learn what happened to the Red Planet's ancient, thick atmosphere.
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James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead At 97
BeauHD / slashdot - ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: James D. Watson, who entered the pantheon of science at age 25 when he joined in the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science, died on Thursday …
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Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm
Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one Micro-OLED displays with 1080p (1920x1080) resolution have been around for a few years now, but a group of German researchers has taken things to the next level. The…
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Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5, barrels down on the Caribbean. Here's what you need to know
Chris Morris / qz - Storm could bring more than three feet of rain and winds of more than 160 mph to Jamaica. Here's what to expect
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What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA
Becky Ferreira / 404media - DNA from the teeth of French soldiers that died in the disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow revealed previously unidentified pathogens.
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The Willow chip marks a new milestone in Google’s quantum race
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Google researchers announced the first verifiable quantum advantage, using their Willow processor to map a molecule’s features 13,000 times faster than a modern supercomputer by employing a technique called “quantum echoes.” The experiment utilized Google…
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Google claims to have quantum advantage with a potentially useful algorithm
John Timmer / arstechnica - An approach it calls "quantum echoes" takes 13,000 times longer on a supercomputer.
Back to Top / Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:21 pm / permalink 15316 / 6 stories in 4 months
Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize
Lindsay Clark / theregister - Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography Three researchers in sub-atomic physics have been awarded a Nobel prize for work which helped lay the foundations for quantum computing.…
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Nobel Prize awarded to trio for immune tolerance research
Colin Ryan / siliconrepublic - The trio of new Nobel laureates were awarded the prize for their research on the immune system and how it tolerates our own tissues.Read more: Nobel Prize awarded to trio for immune tolerance research
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Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica / wired - The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures.
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