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Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could reveal Earth's fate

A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a red giant, perhaps offering insights into planetary migration Source link

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An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time

CAPTCHA tests try to sort humans from bots by asking users to identify objects in photos lilgrapher/Shutterstock An artificial intelligence can solve the CAPTCHA puzzles

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Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space

The International Space Station has its own distinctive microbiome Dima Zel/Shutterstock Bacteria on board the International Space Station (ISS) have evolved new traits in order

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Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn

What Earth may have looked like with a ring Oliver Hull After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have

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Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration

An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a leap forward for private space flight –

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Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io

This Juno image from February (right) reveals a new volcano that wasn’t there in a Galileo image from 1997 (left) Galileo/JunoCam/NASA A fresh volcano with

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The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change

Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather – a poleward shift in parts of

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Google breakthrough paves way for large-scale quantum computers

Google has built a number of quantum computers Google If a small quantum computer makes a small number of errors, will a large quantum computer

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How to avoid being fooled by AI-generated misinformation

Many AI-generated images look realistic until you take a closer look MidJourney Did you notice that the image above was created by artificial intelligence? It

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

“There’s no moon, but we can see very well. The sky is full of stars.” The Milky Way in the Atacama desert Alamy Stock Photo