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NASA's Roman Space Telescope: A New Perspective on the Cosmos (Official NASA Trailer)
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Devastating Nepal floods were triggered by glacier collapse, experts say — and there's a risk of more landslides to come
Fonte: Live Science
Catastrophic floods in Nepal may have resulted from a "hazard cascade" that may have been amplified by climate change, one scientist has warned.…
Trump tried to scrap NASA's Roman Space Telescope last year. Now it's ready to launch
Josh Dinner · Space.com
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch, but the observatory almost had a very different fate. President Trump's leaked budget proposal last…
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A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars
Fonte: Science Daily
Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed. Descendants of hypothetical …
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APOD: 2026 August 27 – Colorful Aurora over an Icelandic Waterfall
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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day…
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On this day in space! Aug. 27, 1962: NASA launches Mariner 2 to Venus for ambitious flyby
Fonte: Space.com
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world's first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet: Venus.…
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324-million-year-old fossil reveals how insects conquered land
Fonte: Science Daily
Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 32…
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Rare, Widespread Snow in the Atacama Desert
Fonte: NASA
Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.…
Glowing galaxy with anomalous extra arms | Space photo of the day for Aug. 27, 2026
Brett Tingley · Space.com
A trio of NASA space telescopes teamed up to capture a gorgeous new look at the glowing spiral galaxy NGC 4258 and its two anomalous extra arms.…
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Smart nanoparticles light up brain cancer and destroy what surgery misses
Fonte: Science Daily
Scientists created smart nanoparticles that can both illuminate hidden glioblastoma cells during surgery and destroy microscopic cancer left behind afterward. I…
'Strange New Worlds' latest episode wastes a lot of time pretending to kill off major 'Star Trek' characters
Fonte: Space.com
Every so often, "Star Trek" likes to put its brave interstellar adventurers through hell. You know the drill — a bunch of one-off crew members will probably be …
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Eating more ultra-processed foods may raise prostate cancer risk by 30%
Fonte: Science Daily
Ultra-processed foods make up a huge share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry another serious health risk for men. In a nationally r…
Powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches European weather satellite to orbit (video)
Mike Wall · Space.com
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launched the sharp-eyed MTG-I2 weather satellite to orbit today (Aug. 27).…
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Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material
Fonte: Science Daily
Scientists have found a surprising way to potentially switch on an unusual form of magnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a material that normally appears nonmagnetic.…
An impressive partial lunar eclipse will turn the moon an eerie red for millions of people tonight
Daisy Dobrijevic · Space.com
Tonight's deep partial lunar eclipse will be the most impressive lunar eclipse until New Year's Eve 2028, so make sure you catch it if you can!…
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NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS
Fonte: Science Daily
NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three d…
IETF 126 post-meeting survey: what we heard
Paige Mustafa, Akanksha Gohil · IETF Blog
Joe Clarke has been appointed as the new IETF NOC Lead and in this post Joe introduces himself and sets out his priorities for the IETF Network.…
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Scientists may have finally caught “empty” space changing light
Fonte: Science Daily
A magnetar with an astonishingly powerful magnetic field may have revealed a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago. Its light shows …
LibreOffice 26.8 Doubles Down on No AI, Right After Collabora Welcomed It
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
TDF and Collabora have been at odds since April, when TDF's Membership Committee kicked out every Collabora staffer and partner in one move, with more than 30 p…
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Scientists discover a brain “brake” that can shut down chronic pain
Fonte: Science Daily
Researchers discovered a brain-based “brake” that can shut down chronic nerve pain in mice by calming an overactive pain circuit. Targeting this system more pre…
[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands
Fonte: LWN.net
Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that i…
AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning…
LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of sca…
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