Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork
… Eventually, after 15 months, the wine settled into the fourth, long-haul phase. Here, oxygen from the outside environment steadily and slowly permeated through the cork. …
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A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
… The discovery immediately has the science community buzzing. “It sent theoretical astrophysicists into a feeding frenzy,” O’Connor said. “When you find something that’s totally bizarre, totally in the wrong place, totally unexpected from any previous way of thinking about things—that’s the Universe… …
NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations
… So NASA discarded the core module idea and released the draft RFP this week. A document finally comes out “NASA’s review reflects what we’ve been hearing from industry throughout this process. …
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. He has journalism and computer science degrees from University of Maryland. He once wrote a whole book about Minesweeper .
Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site
… The recent contract is for Phase 2 of the Burn n’ Go program. During Phase 1, Voyager worked on architecture concepts and preliminary designs. …
Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon
… Falcon 9 steps up again … The awards were made under the competitive National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program. “The rapid acquisition capabilities provided by our NSSL Phase 3 dual-lane approach allows us the flexibility to deliver satellites for our warfighters in an increasingly effi… …
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
… But the company did not respond to Ars’ questions about the power plant backlash, making it seem clear that the discussion it’s willing to have is over the cost of utilities, not the potentially mass-polluting impacts from its center’s reliance on gas turbines. …
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
… By harnessing excess power capacity among US households, SPAN aims to quickly expand the available compute for AI workloads without the costs and delays associated with trying to build warehouse-size data centers. “Data centers are loud, ugly, and often drive up local electricity bills,” said Chris… …
Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
… If you’re focused on eye development, for example, one of the signaling systems used may also be involved in the kidney, and it can be easy to miss what people are discovering about it. …
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
… He typically discovers new artists and gallery openings through word of mouth, though he has recently started curating his social media feed to serve relevant content he’s currently in what he terms a “surrealism phase” . …
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