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Archive for May 13th, 2024

Lego rolls out details about Apollo lunar rover model coming in August

May 13th, 2024 by

Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original “rock and rolling ride,” the electric buggy driven by NASA’s last three Apollo crews to explore the moon.

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New algorithm slashes time to run most sophisticated climate models by 10-fold

May 13th, 2024 by

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has dramatically shortened that time.

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The surface of this volcanic exoplanet is hotter than some stars

May 13th, 2024 by

Described as being like “Io on steroids,” a newly discovered exoplanet is the victim of a tug of war between its neighboring planets and its star.

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Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted

May 13th, 2024 by

A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects of the quantum world.

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How a giant sunspot created aurora mayhem this weekend

May 13th, 2024 by

Intense solar activity generated the most extreme geomagnetic storm since 2003 on Friday (May 10), and the action could continue into this week. Here’s how it happened.

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SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Florida tonight

May 13th, 2024 by

SpaceX plans to launch 23 of its Starlink satellites from Florida tonight (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation.

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