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United Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventually will replace the company's Atlas...

Cornell University researchers have developed an "invisible" light-based watermarking system that embeds unique codes into the physical light that illuminates the subject during recording, allowing any camera to capture authentication data without special hardware. By comparing these coded...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West...

Richard L. GarwinDesigner of the first hydrogen bombLife Fellow, 97; died 13 MayGarwin played a critical role in developing the world’s first hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s.For 41 years he worked as an IBM researcher in Yorktown Heights,...

X owner Elon Musk has threatened Apple with legal action after claiming it had made it "impossible" for apps to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in its App Store.He called OpenAI boss Sam Altman a "liar" - after Altman claimed...

“DHS in particular is trying to use Twitter as a form of not just recruitment but also promotion,” says Joan Donovan, assistant professor at Boston University and the coauthor of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online...

Tucked away in a laboratory at the University of Exeter in the UK, Rebecca Koll is setting conifer trees...

An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts. Illustration: Garcés-Ordóñez et al. (2025) (CC BY 4.0)The scientists found that, like other marine debris, the bottles and caps they retrieved were sometimes colonized by immobile...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a "chain of thought" process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical...

Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorJoshua NevettPolitical reporterEPAStaff at the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding.Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised...