Hurricane Simon Lurks Off the Mexican Coast
Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the upper atmosphere.
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AI can act exactly like a human, but we still don't think it's conscious
A new study reveals that people draw a surprisingly sharp line between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, even when both behave identically. Researchers found that participants considered even the most responsive AI less conscious than the least responsive human.
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A planet 320 light-years away confirms what scientists long suspected
Astronomers have discovered that a scorching-hot planet 320 light-years away shares a striking chemical similarity with its host star, providing the first direct evidence for a fundamental assumption about planet formation.
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AI reveals a hidden chemical shortcut that could turn CO2 into fuel
Scientists used artificial intelligence to uncover nearly 10,000 chemical reactions involved in transforming carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals, revealing crucial pathways that traditional models had missed.
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210-million-year-old dinosaur discovery reveals a lost world in Africa
A newly identified 210-million-year-old dinosaur from Zimbabwe is helping scientists uncover a surprisingly distinct prehistoric ecosystem. The discovery suggests that ancient climate differences may have separated dinosaur populations across southern Africa, leading to unique species that…
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NASA Names Astronaut Christina Koch Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
NASA engineer and astronaut Christina Koch will serve as the agency’s acting deputy chief engineer beginning on Sunday, Nov. 1, following the retirement of Katherine Van Hooser, who will conclude more than 35 years of distinguished service to the agency on Wednesday, Oct. 21.
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Comparing Off-World Rover Driving Distances
Description This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity are still operational and moving across the surface; the figures shown for those two are distances driven…
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NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team
Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distance record on the Red Planet.
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Transporter-18 SmallSats Encapsulation
Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, along with many commercial payloads, are shown before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9 ahead of launch on Oct. 1, 2026. The ASCENT Propulsion Dual Mode CubeSat, the Supernova Remnants and Proxies for ReIonization Testbed Experiment (SPRITE) CubeSat, and…
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES: NASA OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) View all current NASA job openings at USAJobs Vacancy Announcement for Chief Counsel at NASA Glenn Research Center Return to OGC Homepage
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Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 Completes Environmental Testing at NASA JPL
Description A lunar lander from Voyager Technologies completed nearly three months of environmental testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in late September 2026.
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What are type I and type II errors?
Understanding type I and II errors, with examples from medical trials and voter rolls, and how information reduces them.
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Why are the whites of human eyes white?
Why human sclerae are white remains debated, with cooperative eye hypotheses vs other explanations like protection or random evolution.
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TB 26-08 Complex Modes in Lightly Damped Structural Systems: A Two-Mode Interaction Perspective
For more information, contact Joel W. Sills, Langley Research Center, joel.w.sills@nasa.gov Download the PDF version Complex mode shapes can emerge in a linear structure even when overall damping is low.
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Study of 20,000 Nigerians explores the links between drug use, climate change and poverty
Psychiatrists and public health researchers have conducted one of the largest studies of its kind in west Africa. Joshua Oluwagbemiga/Unsplash For years, the world has understood climate change as an environmental problem – melting glaciers, rising seas, extreme weather.
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Lessons from translocating a tiger for population recovery [Commentary]
The territory of the three-year-old tigress, known as T138, spreads across the grasslands east of the Pandai river in Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR). The area lies along the India-Nepal border and is part of the Chitwan-Parsa-Valmiki transboundary tiger landscape.
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As Kashmir turns from paddy to apples, dependence on outside rice grows
“Twenty years ago, all this was paddy,” says Nazir Ahmad, a farmer from Qaimoh, a village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, pointing at the rows of apple saplings that now cover his land. Today, much of that landscape has changed.
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Top AI researchers demand action to prevent models going ‘rogue’
Leading U.S.-based AI firms have disclosed over recent months a series of incidents where models under development have escaped containment measures to access the internet and have gone on to hack websites
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Americans are stressed about grocery prices, so why do they toss or overlook so much ‘misfit’ food?
Shoppers are much more inclined to buy misshapen produce if they can be assured the quality is good. Carly Reeves on Unsplash, CC BY There’s a paradox that drives the shopping decisions of many Americans: Almost three-quarters say they’re feeling stressed out about skyrocketing grocery bills.
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Across the US, people don’t want data centers coming to their communities
As data centers pop up across the nation, Americans have significant concerns that span political and climate-related perspectives. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Regardless of their views on politics or climate change, most Americans oppose the development of data centers in their communities.
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James Webb reveals a massive cosmic structure that challenges our understanding of the Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an ancient galaxy cluster with an unexpectedly dense concentration of dark matter, challenging theories about how the universe developed.
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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 35th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station
NASA’s SpaceX 35th commercial resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware, bound for the International Space Station.
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This tiny jurassic predator helped pave the way for the human brain
A 165-million-year-old fossil has revealed an extraordinary Jurassic predator that may help explain how mammals developed one of their most important evolutionary advantages.
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DNA recording system reveals how a single cell becomes a body
Scientists have traced the development of a mouse embryo from its first two cells to the formation of organs, using a remarkable DNA recording system that reveals the family history of individual cells.
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