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US military shoots down Chinese balloon over coastal waters

EnlargeAndrea Nissotti / EyeEm On Saturday afternoon, US jets intercepted the Chinese surveillance balloon as it was leaving the continental US. Live...

What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware?

EnlargeGetty Images While many companies are now offering access to general-purpose quantum computers, they're not currently being used to solve any real-world...

Where 2022’s news was (mostly) good: The year’s top science stories

Enlarge / The self-portrait of Webb's mirrors is also looking very sharp thanks to the improved alignment.NASA/STScI How often does something work...

Startup claims to offer stratospheric geoengineering as a service

Enlarge / Stratospheric aerosols can make for great sunsets, regardless of how they get there.Rachel Dulson Humanity has managed to stabilize its...

High class: A strong electric assist transforms a classic cruiser

EnlargeJohn Timmer If your complete list of bicycle formats consists of road and mountain, then you may struggle to remember what a...

No sign of the expected lake bed where Perseverance rover landed

Enlarge / No, those donut tracks aren't mine, officer.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The Perseverance rover landed in Mars' Jezero Crater largely because of extensive evidence...

Interventions that reduce partisan vitriol don’t help democracy

Enlarge / The risk of violence has become a backdrop for protests and polls in the US.Nathan Howard / Getty Images It's...

The feds’ new open-access policy: Who’s gonna pay for it?

Enlarge / With physical subscriptions becoming increasingly irrelevant, researchers will have to pay more to get their research published.Xu Wu / Getty Images ...

Another casualty of the pandemic: our ability to worry about anything else

Enlarge / This looks worrisome, but I've got a pandemic to panic about.Gerhard Pettersson / EyeEm It's safe to say that the...

DART goes silent after hitting an asteroid [Update]

Enlarge / One of the last images from DART.NASA/APL Update, 10:30: If this is an indication of the quality of the images we...

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