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Putin OKs plan to turn Russian spacecraft into flying billboards

These are tough times for Russia's civilian space program. In the last few years, Russia has cut back on the number of Soyuz crew...

Childhood vaccines safe for a little longer as CDC cancels advisory meeting

An October meeting of a key federal vaccine advisory committee has been canceled without explanation, sparing the evidence-based childhood vaccination schedule from more erosion—at...

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of malicious examples stayed constant. For...

Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle

The pack has a gross capacity of 122 kWh, with a pack power density of 195 Wh/kg. Specific energy density is 280 Wh/L, with...

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

Another mission the White House wanted to cancel was THEMIS, a pair of spacecraft orbiting the Moon to map the lunar magnetic field. The...

Tesla’s standard-range Model 3, Model Y join the lineup

Today, Tesla announced a new variant of the Model Y crossover for North America. Tesla fans have long-awaited a cheaper entry-level model; this was...

Despite RFK Jr.’s shenanigans, COVID shot access will be a lot like last year

In an interview with Ars Technica in August, Brigid Groves, vice president of professional affairs for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) signaled that efforts...

Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize

Today, finding a mutation on the X chromosome would be relatively easy. But in the 1990s, it was a labor-intensive effort. After narrowing the...

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz pressures Wikipedia after criticizing FCC chair Cruz sent the letter about two weeks after criticizing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr for threatening...

Pentagon contract figures show ULA’s Vulcan rocket is getting more expensive

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA's Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on...

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