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Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 08:30:53

Scientists have warned that research into "mirror life" organisms — hypothetical life forms made up of molecules that perfectly mirror those found in regular life — should be stopped. Theoretically, it's a cool idea. But some scientists are worried that these life forms, if they're ever realized, could turn into a major risk for the world around us by turning into an unstoppable force that spreads without limits, overrunning and choking out natural organisms in its path. As Nature reported las

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Scientists Debate to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth Should Be Halted

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:30:53

Scientists have warned that research into "mirror life" organisms — hypothetical life forms made up of molecules that perfectly mirror those found in regular life — should be stopped. Theoretically, it's a cool idea. But some scientists are worried that these life forms, if they're ever realized, could turn into a major risk for the world around us by turning into an unstoppable force that spreads without limits, overrunning and choking out natural organisms in its path. As Nature reported las

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Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 18:05:55

The Sun — usually so predictable — is exhibiting some surprising behavior and that has scientists very intrigued. Astronomers had predicted that our host star was entering a period of relative quiet back in 2008, but NASA scientists have published a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that found that the Sun has instead defied expectations by becoming more active, with increased sunspots and solar flares. "All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activi

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Scientists Gather to Confront the Doomsday Risks of ‘Mirror Life’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-28 23:10:48

The prospect of creating “mirror life”—synthetic cells made from molecules that are mirror images of those found in nature—remains completely hypothetical. Still, the potential consequences are so dire that experts from around the world are gathering to discuss how to prevent the worst-case scenario. This week, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and other stakeholders will convene in Manchester, U.K., for Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Life 2025. This annual international conference e

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Ram ends EV pickup truck plans

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-02 07:56:16

The all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup truck is dead. Long live the extended-range Ram 1500 REV (once called the Ramcharger). Stellantis, the parent company of Ram, said Friday that it will no longer develop a battery-electric full-size pickup. The company cited low demand for full-size battery-electric trucks as the primary reason, according to a statement sent to TechCrunch and posted on its website. “As demand for full-size battery-electric trucks slows in North America, Stellantis is reasses

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Stellantis cancels Ram 1500 REV as electric truck demand dims

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-02 15:17:51

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Stellantis announced that it was discontinuing its Ram 1500 REV electric truck, citing slowing sales of heavy-duty electric trucks. The name plate, however, will live on. Stellantis said that it was renaming its Range-Extended Electric

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Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-11-08 03:00:00

That idea is not without its detractors. Among other issues, many feel AI is not capable of the creative thought needed in research, makes too many mistakes and hallucinations, and may limit opportunities for young researchers. Nevertheless, a number of scientists and policymakers are very keen on the promise of AI scientists. The US government’s AI Action Plan describes the need to “invest in automated cloud-enabled labs for a range of scientific fields.” Some researchers think AI scientists c

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The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan

wired.com Nick Gibbs 2025-11-15 16:56:30

On a drab, overcast March day in Amsterdam in 2022, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took off his face mask and strode onto a makeshift stage to confidently explain to a crowd of journalists and analysts how the company that had recently unified brands as diverse as Fiat, Peugeot, Maserati, Ram, and Opel was going rewrite the rules of the car industry. His tie sat slightly askew and his greying hair needed a trim, the picture of a man far too focused on applying dynamic capitalistic principles to a

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There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 11:06:47

Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of a supernova known as 2023zkd, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had ever seen before. As its name suggests, this supernova — the fabulous astronomical term for the explosive death of a star — was first spotted back in 2023, when Southern California's Zwicky Transient Facility zeroed in on it thanks to new AI algorithms designed to detect such brilliant blasts. This supernova, however, was different. It appeared,

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Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study

news.ycombinator.com King'S College London 2025-11-18 05:13:12

The King’s College London team of scientists discovered that keratin produces a protective coating that mimics the structure and function of natural enamel when it comes into contact with minerals in saliva. In a new study published today, scientists discovered that keratin, a protein found in hair, skin and wool, can repair tooth enamel and stop early stages of decay. Unlike bones and hair, enamel does not regenerate, once it is lost, it’s gone forever. Acidic foods and drinks, poor oral hyg

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In a First, Scientists Capture Human Embryo Implantation in Real Time

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-19 20:00:40

A team of scientists has just gotten a closer peek into one of the earliest and most fundamental steps of creating a human life. Research out today highlights how they captured—for the first time—footage of human embryo implantation right as it’s happening. Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), in collaboration with Dexeus University Hospital, detailed their work in a study published Friday in Science Advances. Among other things, the footage shows that human embr

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Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-06 20:10:07

Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to a black hole in the 1979 movie The Black Hole, an astrophysicist has released a plan for a real interstellar mission to go where no spacecraft has gone before. Outlined in a new paper published today in iScience, the proposal is a two-pronged, surprisingly simple approach. First, scientists need to find a black hole that’s relatively nearby. Second, they need to build something called a na

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Trump Administration Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-11 10:15:35

The Trump Administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2026 would take an axe to NASA science. Two satellite missions on the chopping block have provided climate scientists, oil and gas companies, and farmers with critical atmospheric carbon data for years. The Orbiting Carbon Observatories are a pair of instruments that map atmospheric carbon on a global scale. NASA launched the OCO-2 in 2014 and mounted the OCO-3 on the International Space Station in 2019. Trump’s budget proposal threaten

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-17 14:27:38

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales. As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species. However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past

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How Scientific Empires End

news.ycombinator.com Ross Andersen 2025-12-20 18:47:15

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, he studied the thermonuclear reactions that occur inside of stars. A few lab tables away, Andrei Sakharov was developing the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet space program would soon astonish the world by lofting the first satellite, and then the first human being, into orbit. Sagdeev can still rememb

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The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-12-23 05:37:10

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called “woke AI,” issuing an executive order aimed at preventing companies whose models exhibit a liberal bias from landing federal contracts. Simultaneously, the Pentagon inked a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI just days after its chatbot, Grok, spout

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Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-27 23:58:16

Scientists are racing to find potential ways to slow down global warming, going far as to investigate ways to dim the Sun. The concept, known as solar geoengineering, has proven incredibly controversial in the past, with critics arguing that we simply don't know enough about the risks, including the environmental and societal impacts of tinkering with the climate. Proponents don't necessarily disagree, but they say the situation is already so bad that we need to consider drastic action, even if

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How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs

technologyreview.com James Temple 2026-01-01 04:00:00

Given the “dramatic changes” brought about by this administration, “the future will not be the past,” she says. “This is like a natural disaster. We can’t think about rebuilding in the way that things have been in the past. We have to look ahead and say, ‘What is needed? What can people afford?’” Organizations can also use this moment to test and develop emerging technologies that could improve greenhouse-gas measurements, including novel sensors or artificial intelligence tools, Hayes says. “

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Physicists Blow Up Gold With Giant Lasers, Accidentally Disprove Renowned Physics Model

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-05 20:00:07

Scientists equipped with giant lasers have blown up gold at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, heating it to 14 times its boiling point. For a chilling second, they thought they broke physics, but they fortunately did no such thing. That said, they broke something else: a decades-long model in physical chemistry having to do with the fundamental properties of matter. In an experiment presented today in Nature, researchers, for the first time ever, demonstrated a way to directly measure the t

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Earthquake Causes 2.5-Meter Ground Slip in First-Ever Footage

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Fike 2026-01-06 22:15:22

A security camera in Myanmar captured something scientists have never seen before on film: the surface of the Earth lunging sideways during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake. In 1.3 seconds, the ground shifted 2.5 meters (a little over 8 feet), revealing something researchers have only been able to model or guess at until now. It’s the first direct video of a fault line in motion, offering a rare, horrifyingly calm glimpse at the forces that shape continents and rearrange cities. Videos by VICE Scie

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Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

news.ycombinator.com Katarina Zimmer 2026-01-09 09:13:34

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells in human tissues, and observe “animalcules” — bacteria and protists — in the water of a lake. Increasingly powerful light microscopes followed, revealing cell organelles like the nucleus and energy-producing mitochondria. But by 1873, scientists realized there was a limit to the level of detail. W

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Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-11 22:00:39

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term... well, call it a situationship. In a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper flagged by Universe Today, an international group of researchers detailed finding a so-called "Centaur" — a small, icy and rocky body that sits between Uranus and Neptune and is designated as a minor planet — that appears to have been keeping up with Uranus in a delicate cosmic dance for thousands or even millio

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The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-01-20 20:36:04

In Brief Mantis Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of the electronic DJ group The Chainsmokers, has raised $100 million in commitments for its third fund. At $100 million, the firm’s newest fund is 25% larger than Mantis’s previous $80 million fund, a notable achievement at a time when many venture firms are struggling to maintain their existing fund sizes or secure new capital. Mantis has invested in B2B companies, such as cybersecurity firm Chainguar

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Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-25 10:30:52

Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger explosive — and potentially deadly — volcanic eruptions around the world. As detailed in a new study presented at the Goldschmidt international geochemistry conference this week and due to be peer-reviewed later this year, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed six volcanoes in southern Chile to study how retreating ice sheets may have influenced past volcanic behavior. Using advanced argon

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-31 23:55:56

Washington, DC—From a distance, the gathering looked like a standard poster session at an academic conference, with researchers standing next to large displays of the work they were doing. Except in this case, it was taking place in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, and the researchers were describing work that they weren’t doing. Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administrat

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’ canceled research

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-01 05:55:56

Washington, DC — From a distance, the gathering looked like a standard poster session at an academic conference, with researchers standing next to large displays of the work they were doing. Except in this case, it was taking place in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, and the researchers were describing work that they weren’t doing. Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administr

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The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-03 10:17:57

The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today I Want to Get Off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride "The cause of this acceleration is not explained." Spin Cycle The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in recent memory as a result, slicing well over a millisecond off the usual 24 hours, Timeanddate.com reports. That's despite the Earth's

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Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-08 05:06:38

Dmitri Mendeleev famously saw the complete arrangement of the periodic table after falling asleep on his desk. He claimed in his dream he saw a table where all the elements fell into place, and he wrote it all down when he woke up. By having a eureka moment right after a nap, he joined a club full of rather talented people: Mary Shelley, Thomas Edison, and Salvador Dali. To figure out if there’s a grain of truth to all these anecdotes, a team of German scientists at the Hamburg University, led

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This Survey Asked Neuroscientists If Memories Can Be Extracted From the Dead. Here’s What They Said

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-02-20 00:20:54

The allure and terror of transferring your consciousness to a computer has long been fodder for cyberpunk novels and billionaire-backed immortality startups. But a substantial chunk of neuroscientists think it might be possible to extract memories from a preserved brain and store those memories inside a computer, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, suggests that most neuroscientists believe that memory has a physical basis and, on average, give a 40% probabil

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Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-20 06:45:16

Image by Getty Images Studies When you die, your memories die with you, never to be experienced again. Or at least, that's always been how the case. Now, though, in an exercise to assess shifting scientific consensus, a cohort of 312 neuroscientists were quizzed by researchers on whether memories might live on in the structure of deceased brains. And a surprisingly larger number — 70.7 percent of the group — believe they may, findings which were newly published in the science journal PLOS One.

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Scientists Debate Whether to Halt Type of Research That Could Destroy All Life on Earth

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Trump Administration Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

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Super-resolution microscopes reveal new details of cells and disease

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

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Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways

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Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

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