A guide to the “platonic ideal” of a Negroni and other handy tips
Perfumer by day, mixologist by night, Kevin Peterson specializes in crafting scent-paired cocktails.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Science // Science & Exploration
Quantum hardware may be a good match for AI
New manuscript describes analyzing image data in a quantum processor.
John Timmer
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Rocket Report: “No man’s land” in rocket wars; Isaacman lukewarm on SLS
China's approach to space junk is worrisome as it begins launching its own megaconstellations.
Stephen Clark
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New simulation of Titanic’s sinking confirms historical testimony
NatGeo documentary follows a cutting-edge undersea scanning project to make a high-resolution 3D digital twin of the ship.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Painted altar in Maya city of Tikal reveals aftermath of ancient coup
The altar marks the presence of an enclave of foreign elites from Teotihuacan.
Kiona N. Smith
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Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates
With billions in grants put on hold, targeted universities will see research crippled.
John Timmer
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Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots
Light and smells can turn flies into remote-controlled near-automatons.
John Timmer
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Trump throws coal a lifeline, but the energy industry has moved on
The US market has been moving away from coal for decades.
Inside Climate News
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Most Read
Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right
Pour-over coffee is made by flowing a strong, laminar water jet through a bed of ground coffee beans.
Jennifer Ouellette
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De-extinction company announces that the dire wolf is back
What they delivered is a gray wolf genome carrying a handful of genetic edits.
John Timmer
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How did eastern North America form?
Collisions hold lessons for how the edges of continents are built and change over time.
Knowable Magazine
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Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won't make good surrogates.
Nitin Sekar
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With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider
The military's stable of certified rockets will include Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Vulcan, and New Glenn.
Stephen Clark
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We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built
Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction.
Jacek Krywko
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Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar
"Batesian mimicry" is when a species evolves to look like one that's inedible.
Elizabeth Rayne
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USDA cuts could cause long-term damage, reverse hard-won progress
Yield-increasing conservation measures now branded as "far left climate activities."
Inside Climate News
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Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning.
Jacek Krywko
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Monkeys are better yodelers than humans, study finds
Voice breaks in Latin American monkey calls resemble human yodeling, but over a much wider frequency range.
Jennifer Ouellette
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SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster
A "flight-proven" Super Heavy booster will power SpaceX's next Starship test flight.
Stephen Clark
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A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection?
The study shows a sharp change when the vaccine was introduced in Wales.
John Timmer
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Male fruit flies drink more alcohol to get females to like them
Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier by stimulating the production of sex pheromones.
Jennifer Ouellette
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A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor
It's slow and inefficient, but the semiconductor is only one molecule thick.
John Timmer
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RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative
The ’80s comedy has stood the test of time, even inspiring a 2009 Mythbusters episode.
Jennifer Ouellette
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First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant
A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators.
John Timmer
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Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles
"I call it the last frontier of unexplored territory in low-Earth orbit."
Stephen Clark
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Research roundup: 2,400-year-old clay puppets; this is your brain on Klingon
Also: testing the efficacy of WWI "dazzle" camouflage; how the male blue-lined octopus survives deadly mating ritual.
Jennifer Ouellette
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The first flight of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket lasted just 40 seconds
"Today, we know twice as much about our launch system as yesterday before launch."
Stephen Clark
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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
Dan Goodin
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life.
The Conversation
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Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical.
Benj Edwards
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Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas
New executive order slams museum for recognizing "race is not a biological reality."
John Timmer
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Rocket Report: Stoke is stoked; sovereignty is the buzzword in Europe
"The idea that we will be able to do it through America… I think is very, very doubtful."
Stephen Clark
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169
Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets
Researchers ascribe it to "animus or prejudice against minority drivers."
John Timmer
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“This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.
"I want to promise you now that we are going to do more with less," RFK Jr. said.
Beth Mole
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Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors
New approach to improving AI performance turns a silicon problem into a feature.
John Timmer
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Maybe Trump should go back to calling his missile shield the Iron Dome
Trump created the Space Force, Biden grew it, and now its top general worries about cutbacks.
Stephen Clark
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