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Test your knowledge of Nobel-prizewinning discoveries in microbiology, genomics and cosmology with questions set by the laureates themselves: Barry Marshall, Jennifer Doudna and Saul Perlmutter
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Anduril-216 rode a SpaceX rideshare to orbit back in July. It's roughly the size of an oven and flies about 590 km (366 miles) up, so it spends around a third of every lap in darkness.
Shortly after the Bank of Ghana unveiled the Heritage Series banknotes, Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin accused the government of putting a different face on the new GH¢50 note from the one it…
A study of more than 750,000 pregnancies found that early exposure to Ozempic, Wegovy, and similar drugs was not linked to increased pregnancy complications when used for weight loss, but was…
The ESA's Euclid has already teased us with some early results. In the past, it's given us a small image covering 60 square degrees of the sky, created with a few days of observations. Those images showed individual targets from the Horsehead Nebula to the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
When amphibians and reptiles get an infection, they sometimes raise their body temperature above its usual level by moving to a warmer environment. This well-documented behavioral response is known as behavioral fever.
Both humans and image recognition algorithms can take time to identify the objects and scenes depicted in some images. Emblematic examples of this phenomenon are Mooney images, pictures that are intentionally reduced to patches of black and white, with no shades of gray.
