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A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch 50,000 mirrored satellites to beam sunlight onto Earth at night, and this month it tested the concept on the residents of rural California without much warning. Locals near Lone Pine looked up at the Sierra Nevada and saw a...
Utah Mink Farm Spent 2 Months Marinating in Bird Flu. USDA: 'Not Our Mink.'
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Sam Altman Says We Can't Patch Our Way Out of the AI Hacking Crisis He Helped Build
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Zuckerberg Wants AI to Simulate a Living Cell, Has Almost None of the Data
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NASA Is Spending Millions So Astronauts Can Get Bars on the Moon
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Hawaii's 550-Year-Old Hōlei Sea Arch Is Gone, and Nobody Saw It Happen
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Dengue Fever Declares 3 Florida Counties an Emergency Zone
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Google Just Launched an AI Data Center Into Space
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NASA Crew-13 Blasts Off With a Canadian Whose Wife Is Due in November
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