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Something went boom in outer space and sent radioactive stardust our way, and it’s just been found at the bottom of the ocean.

To survive 7000 metres below the surface of the sea, the Yap hadal snailfish has evolved advanced mechanisms for repairing its DNA and safeguarding its proteins.

The U.S. and China are locked in a fierce battle in the race for Mars. China’s Zhurong rover is circling Mars as the country attempts to land a spacecraft on the red planet for the first time, just months after NASA landed its Perseverance rover. Photos: NASA; CCTV

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ETH Computer scientists have developed a new AI solution that enables touchscreens to sense with eight times higher resolution than current devices. Thanks to AI, their solution can infer much more precisely where fingers touch the screen.

Quickly typing a message on a smartphone sometimes results in hitting the wrong letters on the small keyboard or on other input buttons in an app. The touch sensors that detect finger input on the touch screen have not changed much since they were first released in mobile phones in the mid-2000s.

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China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.

The Tianwen-1 mission, China’s first interplanetary endeavor, reached the surface of the Red Planet Friday (May 14) at approximately 7:11 p.m. EDT (2311 GMT), though Chinese space officials have not yet confirmed the exact time and location of touchdown. Tianwen-1 (which translates to “Heavenly Questions”) arrived in Mars’ orbit in February after launching to the Red Planet on a Long March 5 rocket in July 2020.

There’s a wide world of delivery logistics going on behind the scenes in America, one that’s become central to everyday life. And yet, most of us are completely oblivious to its environmental cost. But thanks to a handful of ambitious startups, there’s an electric revolution happening that may be perfectly suited to delivering us a cleaner future.

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A research group in Germany has presented a possible explanation for why the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines sometimes trigger rare blood-clotting events.

May.14 — Martin Indyk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, expects a cease fire soon in the latest Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. He appears on “Balance of Power.”

Circa 2020

Photonics could soon allow NASA to swap from radio to lasers.