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Banning songs from the airwaves is one thing, but some nations have outlawed music entirely. Music’s power to provoke and unite has long been a double-edged sword. Whether for religious, political, or moral reasons, songs that challenge the status quo are often silenced. The BBC refused to play the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,”...

The four astronauts of SpaceX’s planned Fram2 mission, which will travel over Earth’s poles for three to five days in late 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX plans to make spaceflight history later this year by launching the first crewed mission to explore Earth’s polar regions. That four-person flight, which SpaceX announced today (Aug. 12), is...

A Rocket Lab Electron vehicle launches a synthetic aperture radar satellite for the California company Capella Space on Aug. 11, 2024. (Image credit: Rocket Lab) Rocket Lab launched its 10th mission of the year on Sunday (Aug. 11), sending aloft an Earth-observing radar satellite for the California company Capella Space. An Electron vehicle lifted off...

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Applying the logic of chatbot conversations to humans could make a person awkward, impatient, or just plain rude. Credit: DepositPhotos It has never taken all that much for people to start treating computers like humans. Ever since text-based chatbots first started gaining mainstream attention in the early 2000’s, a small subset of tech users have...

Researchers say the rocks recovered from the mantle bear a closer resemblance to those that were present on early Earth rather than the more common rocks that make up our continents today. Professor Johan Lissenberg For the first time, an international team of scientists recovered a long section of rocks that originated in the Earth’s...

Dangerous blood clots can form when there are too many “coagulation factors” in the blood. (Image credit: Micro Discovery via Getty Images) Blood clotting, also called coagulation , is a vital process the body uses after an injury to stop bleeding and help prevent infections. But sometimes, blood clots form inside an artery or vein,...

Trade-offs of blockchain technology for multinational corporations’ (MNCs) global strategies. Credit: Global Strategy Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1509 Blockchain technology has become one of the most hyped advancements in recent years, but there hasn’t been a clear understanding of the potential tradeoffs for its use by multinational corporations (MNCs). A new study published in the Global...

Researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University have looked back to the past for inspiration in potentially offering a life-saving solution we’ll need in the not-too-distant future. That’s the use of firebricks, a technology humanity has used since the Bronze Age, to store heat from renewable sources and then release...

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