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NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies.

The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA.

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We present a universal theory of quantum work statistics in generic disordered non-interacting Fermi systems, displaying a chaotic single-particle spectrum captured by random matrix theory. We…

Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov tore into the quantum computing industry this week, comparing the “fanfare” around the tech to a financial bubble in a searing commentary piece for the Financial Times.

In other words, he wrote, it’s far more hype than substance.

It’s a scathing, but also perhaps insightful, analysis of a burgeoning field that, at the very least, still has a lot to prove.

This “Waterworld” could reveal more about what makes a planet habitable.

NASA’s TESS satellite found a rare exoplanet covered in deep oceans, making it an excellent candidate for Webb to take a closer look at and learn more about habitability.

The new research provides a more complete picture of how diamond rain forms on other planets.

Researchers have discovered that “diamond rain,” unique precipitation that has long been speculated to occur on icy giant planets, may occur more frequently than previously believed.

To learn more about the circumstances on the icy giant planets Neptune and Uranus, a group of researchers from Germany and France has created an intriguing experiment, according to an article published by Physic.org on Friday.

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The eagerly anticipated feature button may allay some of Twitter’s long-standing concerns.

He also announced plans to train ‘civilian sharpshooters.’

A Taiwanese tech tycoon plans to defend against a possible “Chinese invasion” by training three million “black bear warriors.” A retired Taiwanese tech tycoon said he plans to use his wealth to train these “civilian warriors,” according to a report published by Taiwan News.

“The Chinese Communist Party’s threat to Taiwan is growing, and the fight against (it) stands for freedom against slavery, democracy against authoritarianism, and civilized against barbaric,” said Robert Tsao, 75, who intends to use the US $33 million of his wealth to fund the “warriors.

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Basically the United States has alerts for the west Nile as it seems to be spreading across many states.

As temperatures warm, US health officials are braced for rising rates of West Nile virus, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that can cause meningitis, paralysis, and death.

Oklahoma reported its first West Nile death of the year on Thursday, in a resident who had been hospitalized with the illness.

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