If it moves, it’s probably alive: Searching for life on other planets

The search for extraterrestrial life has always been a key motivator of space exploration. But if we were to search ...
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Judge orders Trump admin. to restore CDC and FDA webpages by midnight

“Irrational removal” In his opinion, Bates cited the declarations from Stephanie Liou, a physician who works with low-income immigrant families ...
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22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold

Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical campus services, including at research ...
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CenturyLink nightmares: Users keep asking Ars for help with multi-month outages

Separately, a CenturyLink customer named David Stromberg in Bellevue, Washington, told us that his phone service had been out since ...
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Punch-Out’s Mike Tyson has been defeated in under two minutes for the first time

Bismuth explains the unreasonable luck needed for a record-setting Tyson fight at around the 56:30 mark in this 2024 video. ...
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The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

Despite all this, The Sims is worth a look It’s telling that in a market with too many options, I ...
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Feds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program

“There is no legal basis for funds that have been apportioned to states to build projects being ‘decertified’ based on ...
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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for ...
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Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode

It’s been a month since we first heard rumors that the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons could be slid across a ...
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Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say

Emails discussing torrenting prove that Meta knew it was “illegal,” authors alleged. And Bashlykov’s warnings seemingly landed on deaf ears, ...
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