New Earth-sized planet discovered orbiting star that will live for 100 billion years

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An international team has discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting a long-lived red dwarf, providing unique insights into potentially habitable worlds. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers using robotic global telescopes discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultracool red dwarf inside Milky Way. This planet, tidally locked and likely lacking an atmosphere due to intense radiation, offers … Read more

NASA will provide an update on the status of the Hubble telescope on June 4. Should we be worried?

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A metallic-wrapped spacecraft in space, which looks black, above Earth.

We’ll get an update on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be a pretty big deal. On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team will hold a press conference about the observatory’s status tomorrow at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). Specifically, officials said the purpose of this … Read more

Boeing’s Starliner crew prepares for takeoff Wednesday | CNN

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Sign up for CNN’s Science of Miracles newsletter. Explore the universe with news of fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. CNN – The final attempt at the inaugural crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is on track for Wednesday after a computer glitch halted the countdown just moments before liftoff on Saturday. The historic mission, … Read more

Women in England and Wales reject ‘exciting’ drug that could stop breast cancer from spreading

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Thousands of women with advanced breast cancer in England and Wales are being denied a drug that cuts the risk of the disease spreading by more than a third. Enhertu has been approved for HER2-low breast cancer patients in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has rejected … Read more

Sharper Than Ever – Io’s Volcanic Surfaces Revealed by New Telescope Technology

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Jupiter’s moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on January 10, 2024. This is the highest-resolution image of Io ever taken by an Earth-based telescope. The image combines three spectral bands—infrared, red, and yellow—to highlight the reddish ring around Pele volcano (below and to the right of the moon’s center) and the white ring around Pillan Patera, … Read more

A cosmic flaw in gravity

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Einstein’s theory of gravity is a cornerstone of modern cosmology. It has been tested and proven correct over and over and is supported by the discovery of countless cosmic phenomena: from gravitational lensing discovered by Arthur Eddington in 1919 and anomalies observed in the orbit of Mercury, to galactic redshifts and gravitational waves. The theory … Read more

Japanese billionaire pulls the plug on private lunar mission ‘DearMoon’ Starship | TechCrunch

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The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing continued uncertainty about when the launch vehicle will be ready to fly. “I signed the contract in 2018 based on the assumption that dearMoon would be launched by the end of 2023,” … Read more

The new prototype of the giant gravel bike was developed at Unbound

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Unbound Gravel was a hot spot for unreleased new bike technology this year. We spotted SRAM’s unreleased Red XPLR AXS 13-speed groupset, a COROS bike computer with 90+ hours of battery life, new racing kit and new wheels. We also got glimpses of the new bikes, including a Giant prototype that we’re pretty sure is … Read more

Google is facing serious allegations of privacy violations after the latest leak

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Briefing Google collected and stored personal data from apps like Waze and YouTube over a six-year period, including data from vulnerable users. High-priority incidents included the recording of children’s voices, the leaking of internal YouTube content, and the transcription of license plate information through Street View. Google’s breach also included inappropriate access to sensitive data, … Read more

Urgent warning to all iPhone and Android users after sneaky cyber attack targeting millions of devices – here’s how to protect yourself

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Android and iPhone users have been told to reboot their phones once a week and turn off WiFi and Bluetooth to avoid cyber security attacks. Criminals can use zero-click exploits to infect a device and collect data without requiring the user to click a link or download a file.

Anyone with an iPhone or Android should turn the device on and off once a week, officials say — to protect them from hackers. The idea is to thwart ‘zero-click’ hacks, which involve downloading spyware to users’ phones without ever clicking a link. The National Security Agency (NSA) approves the reset method, which temporarily deletes … Read more

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