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Want Unlimited Clean Energy? Just Drill the World’s Hottest Well
An engineering team bored 2 miles into hot rock without causing major earthquakes—a good sign for harnessing the Earth's heat as a power source.
Bloomberg’s Influencer Campaign, a Hackable Voting App, and More News
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How Doctors on Earth Treated a Blood Clot on the ISS
A scan revealed a clot in a patient's jugular. The challenge? That patient was an astronaut, 250 miles overhead in the International Space Station.
New Horizons team uncovers a critical piece of the planetary formation puzzle
Data from NASA's New Horizons mission are providing new insights into how planets and planetesimals -- the building blocks of the planets -- were...
Looks Like Huawei Might Be Screwed This Time
The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it was unsealing a superseding indictment against Chinese tech giant Huawei, charging the company and several...
Mozilla’s New Firefox Android App Only Supports These Extensions for Now
Mozilla is about to remove the Nightly beta of its new Firefox Android browser from the Google Play Store, leaving only Firefox Preview for...
NASA Releases Remixed Version of Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo
A humbling photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 probe from a distance of 3.7 billion miles has been reprocessed by NASA to...
10,000 steps a day: Not a magical formula for preventing weight gain
For years now, 10,000 steps a day has become the gold standard for people trying to improve their health -- and recent research shows...
Making the mouse gut microbiome more human-like
Researchers find that when rodents are prevented from consuming feces, their small-intestine microbiota more closely resembles the microbial communities found in human intestines.
Skyrmions like it hot: Spin structures are controllable even at high temperatures
Researchers who had previously demonstrated the use of new spin structures for future magnetic storage devices has yet achieved another milestone. The international team...