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Thursday , 21 August 2025

Your daily dose of science, research and AI stories

Thursday , 21 August 2025
NASA plans lunar nuclear reactor by 2030
Space and astronomyScience Reviews

NASA plans lunar nuclear reactor by 2030

NASA plans to power lunar bases with nuclear reactors by 2030, racing China to establish permanent Moon settlements.

Magnetic microrobots deliver medicine with pinpoint precision
Health and life sciencesEngineeringScience Reviews

Magnetic microrobots deliver medicine with pinpoint precision

Scientists have created microscopic robots that swim through the body, deliver medicine precisely where needed, then return for safe removal.

AI predicts sports outcomes with statistical boost
AI and computer scienceScience Reviews

AI predicts sports outcomes with statistical boost

Could the future of sports depend more on smart algorithms than star athletes? New AI research suggests exactly that.

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Space and astronomyScience ReviewsScience updates

Mysterious cosmic object pulses every 44 minutes

Astronomers discovered a cosmic object that pulses X-rays and radio waves every 44 minutes—defying all known stellar categories.

NASA plans lunar nuclear reactor by 2030

NASA plans lunar nuclear reactor by 2030

Magnetic microrobots deliver medicine with pinpoint precision

Magnetic microrobots deliver medicine with pinpoint precision

AI predicts sports outcomes with statistical boost

AI predicts sports outcomes with statistical boost

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Mysterious cosmic object pulses every 44 minutes

Is there consciousness beyond the brain? | Philip Goff | TEDxNewEngland
Science videos

Is there consciousness beyond the brain? | Philip Goff | TEDxNewEngland

Could consciousness extend beyond the brain, existing in every particle of our universe?

Even Quantum Physicists Don't Agree About the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Science videos

Even Quantum Physicists Don’t Agree About the Meaning of Quantum Physics

Quantum mechanics challenges reality, revealing a world of probabilistic particles and unresolved scientific mysteries.

This Is How People Game Science Publishing
AI and computer scienceAI videos

This Is How People Game Science Publishing

AI threatens scientific publishing's integrity, exposing critical vulnerabilities in research verification and credibility worldwide.

New Observations Fit Neatly With String Theory, Physicists Find
Science videos

New Observations Fit Neatly With String Theory, Physicists Find

Could dark energy's mysterious weakening rewrite our understanding of the universe's ultimate cosmic destiny?

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Bridging theories to find room-temperature superconductors
Physics and mathematicsScience Reviews

Bridging theories to find room-temperature superconductors

What if copper, silver, and gold could conduct electricity with zero energy loss at room temperature?

Data poisoning threatens AI with deceptive training
AI and computer scienceScience Reviews

Data poisoning threatens AI with deceptive training

A simple red laser pointer could crash an entire train system by tricking AI cameras into false readings.

Scientific fraud has become an industrial enterprise
Science Reviews

Scientific fraud has become an industrial enterprise

Science faces an existential crisis as AI-powered fraud mills overwhelm peer review, threatening research integrity worldwide.

AI revolutionizes RNA vaccine design
Health and life sciencesAI and computer scienceScience Reviews

AI revolutionizes RNA vaccine design

MIT researchers created an AI that designs better RNA vaccine delivery systems using the same technology that powers ChatGPT.

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Space and astronomyScience ReviewsScience updates

Hubble reveals white dwarf’s violent merger

A star 128 light-years away looks ordinary in visible light, but Hubble's ultraviolet vision revealed its violent collision origins.

Spider silk masters engineered webs for 400 million years
EngineeringBiologyScience Reviews

Spiders have engineered silk webs for 400 million years

Spiders have spent 400 million years perfecting architectural designs that would challenge our best materials scientists and engineers.

one word ai
Science Reviews

MIT finds AI’s weakness in single words

Can changing just one word fool an AI system into making dangerous mistakes? MIT researchers found the answer is yes.

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AI and computer scienceScience Reviews

When AI hallucinations become legal precedent

When judges use AI to write legal rulings, their mistakes become law—and they face far less accountability than lawyers.

Kuiper Belt Objects
Space, Astronomy and Cosmology

Kuiper Belt Objects

Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are icy celestial bodies located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of...

X-ray Crystallography
Chemistry and Materials SciencesScience Terms Glossary

X-ray Crystallography

X-ray crystallography is a cornerstone technique in structural biology and chemistry, enabling scientists to visualize the atomic arrangements within crystals and advancing our...

Digital Twin
AI and Computer Science

Digital Twin

A digital twin is a virtual model designed to accurately reflect a physical object, process, or system.

Junk DNA Functions
Biology and Life Sciences

Junk DNA

Junk DNA, once deemed non-functional, consists of non-coding regions of the genome that have been found to play significant roles in gene regulation,...

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