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RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

The move comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a May 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are...

Pentagon may put SpaceX at the center of a sensor-to-shooter targeting network

The possibilities include exploiting automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to sense, target, and strike an enemy vehicle—a truck, tank, airplane, ship, or missile—nearly...

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally...

Analyst: M5 Vision Pro, Vision Air, and smart glasses coming in 2026–2028

Apple is also reportedly planning a "Vision Air" product, with production expected to start in Q3 2027. Kuo says it will be more than...

Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Oscar-winning film, Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's masterful love letter to NASA's Apollo program in...

A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech

Delays and dictionaries One year after the Stanford work, in 2024, Stavisky’s team published its own research on a brain-to-text system that bumped the...

In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader

In the meantime, the Copyright Office is in the odd position of attempting to carry on as though it wasn’t missing its head. Immediately...

Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus

This isn’t the first time suction cups were inspired by highly adaptive octopus suckers. Some models have used pressurized chambers meant to push against...

SCOTUS upholds part of ACA that makes preventive care fully covered

The USPSTF is made up of 16 medical experts who carefully review scientific data and run models to assess what preventive health interventions are...

After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

"If you double-click the file, SimpleText will open it," Brown explains on his blog just before displaying the hidden team photo that emerges after...

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