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- Astronomers Confirm First 'Lone' Black Hole Discovery - and It's in the Milky Way April 20, 2025For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole," reports Science News — "one with no star orbiting it." It's "the only one so far," says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and his colleagues discovered the dark object coursing through […]
- Conservationists Say 'De-Extinction' Not the Answer to Saving Extinct Species April 20, 2025There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a "de-extinction" of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). "But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific research," writes the Chicago Tribune. [Alternate URL here.] "Unfortunately, as clever as this science is ... it's can-do […]
- Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere April 20, 2025TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup "whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X..." Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup's goal, Besiroglu wrote, is "the full automation of […]
- The Bees Are Disappearing Again April 20, 2025"Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America..." reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America "began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed, costing the industry about $600 million in economic losses..." America's Department of Agriculture says "sublethal […]
- Is There a Greener Way to Produce Iron? April 20, 2025"Using electrochemistry, University of Oregon researchers have developed a way to make iron metal for steel production without burning fossil fuels..." the University of Oregon wrote last year. "Decarbonizing this step would do roughly as much to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as converting every gas-guzzling vehicle on the roads to electric... If scaled up, the […]
- Astronomers Confirm First 'Lone' Black Hole Discovery - and It's in the Milky Way April 20, 2025
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- Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise April 20, 2025As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in.
- Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars April 19, 2025The symbiotic organisms appear to be able to avoid some radiation damage.
- Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts April 18, 2025Automatic audio leveling is coming to YouTube Music.
- Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut” April 18, 2025It turns out the FAA now takes no role in identifying who is an astronaut.
- Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems April 18, 2025Future AI might not need supercomputers thanks to models like BitNet b1.58 2B4T.
- Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise April 20, 2025
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