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science, tech, and other oddities

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No, the Earth's core is not going to stop spinning. Here's what the study behind the clickbait headlines actually says... https://t.co/bhlRH4vSTk

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Global warming's rarely mentioned nasty threat to humans is killer fungi spreading across the world, infecting more people, and evolving resistance to existing anti-fungal treatments. https://t.co/oAXUapEvnl

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An artificial intelligence is about the defend someone in a court of law and bump up against the limits of what machine lawyers will, won't, and may never be able to do. https://t.co/d7LMHL5gHT

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Yes, scientists do still listen to talented amateurs who found things they missed. And some of those amateurs are even rewriting human history and providing hope for cures to debilitating conditions. https://t.co/BFN1Z4a6vu

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A growing body of studies says that suburbs are a blight on city planning, our mental health, and our communities. https://t.co/RgTeiLgYye

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According to math, luck, and increasing your chances to get lucky, is what determines outsized success rather than talent. And we have the numbers and studies to show it. https://t.co/1hJB2Urc8e

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Did we finally achieve net gain with fusion? Sort of. It's actually somewhat complicated, even though the news is genuinely good. https://t.co/ZxLeTn2E0l

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Imagine stars as big as solar systems powered by tears in reality itself. Astronomers think they really existed at the dawn of the universe and can explain how today's galaxies got started. And they're inching closer to seeing these black hole suns. https://t.co/a8gQ1jn211

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Space exploration is exciting and inspiring. Space travel is long, boring, and dangerous. So what if you could just sleep your way through it? Is it a good idea and would you survive? https://t.co/mc1vGu3eaj

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Netflix gave Graham Hancock a chance to explore the mysterious dawn of human civilization. Instead of doing that, he recycled long debunked nonsense he stole from 19th century hoaxers and frauds. https://t.co/McTClAJ5EK

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Zombie planets are real and we've found them orbiting stellar corpses after rising from the remains of planets obliterated in cosmic cataclysms. And they're some of the most hostile and challenging places we know of. https://t.co/U4FWsrLqOn

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For generative AI to create new art, prose, and even code, it first needs to steal a lot of art, prose, and code. And that's starting to alarm those whose work is being scraped off the web to fill out the machines' training sets. https://t.co/pBdt6frs9y

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Can we get the drop on the next pandemic by manipulating viruses? Gain of function research makes big promises, but many experts say that the risks are unacceptably high and doubt that the effort will actually pay off. https://t.co/Ik3EADJIeD

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Some of the world's wealthiest people are joining the ranks of doomsday preppers, and their plans for how to handle political and economic instability are... well... not great. https://t.co/IbN120Ua5q

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By switching how it processes transactions on its blockchain, Ethereum is making a bold, energy and processing-efficient stand in the crypto space that could speed mainstream adoption and acceptance. Will Bitcoin follow its lead? https://t.co/WTy9mq0ray

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Did @NASAPersevere find evidence of primeval microbes on the red planet? Not exactly. But the samples it collected helps build the case that Mars was once alive. https://t.co/fX2NQlXYBg

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Texas' ban on social media moderation, recently upheld by the Fifth Circuit, is not about fighting for freedom of speech. It's about very angry and entitled people unable to take no for an answer. https://t.co/190UuoYpvB

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The headlines say "Harvard scientist to look for evidence of alien technology in the ocean," but the reality is far less scientifically impressive and far more factually problematic. https://t.co/nAlkPLxjcU

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The biggest galaxies in the universe are producing few new stars, but no one knew exactly why. New cross-spectrum observations are finally providing an answer. https://t.co/4JDJ0n0Iwm

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Artificial intelligence can do amazing and very useful things these days. And it may soon be able to do all of them and more from the comfort and privacy of your pocket. https://t.co/hIW9GgjqWJ