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Larian finally throws its hands up as a 1,400-hour Baldur’s Gate 3 player defeats every possible backup, including a magic fish, to doom the world and find new content

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Nearly a year after the full release of Baldur’s Gate 3, dedicated players are still discovering rare interactions tied to fail-safes and backup fail-safes designed to prevent us from unknowingly breaking the game. The latest find comes after 1,400 hours of sleuthing Proxy Gate Tacticianwhich found a happy merchant, magical fish, spontaneous goblins, and a … Read more

Scientists find biohack to quadruple lifespan of electric aircraft batteries

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Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Michigan turned to modern biology labs to find ways to improve battery performance in electric aircraft. Technology that helps us better understand our cells could also unlock a future of zero-emission aviation. The types of batteries we have developed so far have made electrification of … Read more

What happens when matter is squeezed to the brink of collapse? We weighed a neutron star to help NASA find out

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Neutron stars are among the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars, they weigh more than our sun and yet are compressed into a sphere the size of a city. The dense cores of these exotic stars contain matter compressed into unique states that are impossible for us … Read more

Scientists find planet with potential for life

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An exoplanet in its star’s habitable Goldilocks zone is now suspected of having a liquid water ocean and an atmosphere. The planet, called LHS 1140 b, is about 1.7 times the size of Earth and is located about 48 light-years away. This distant world, first discovered in 2017, now turns out to be a rocky … Read more

Scientists find hydrogen sulfide outside our solar system for the first time on a planet with glass rain | CNN

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Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins University An illustration shows exoplanet HD 189733b, a gas giant 64 light-years away. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — A Jupiter-sized exoplanet has long intrigued astronomers for its scorching temperatures, howling winds, and sideways rain … Read more

Engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions

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Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microbes used for health, agriculture, or other applications must be able to withstand extreme conditions, and ideally, the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes strong enough to withstand these extreme conditions. Their method involves mixing bacteria with … Read more

Giant dinosaur skeleton unearthed in US state: ‘Incredibly unusual’ 30ft Cretaceous monster is nearly intact in ‘rare’ find that is 80 MILLION years old

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The hadrosaur is a large family of giant herbivorous dinosaurs - including at least 61 identified, individual species with possibly hundreds of unique species that once roamed the Earth, according to experts. The hadrosaurs above are an artist's reconstruction of a Russian find

The most complete dinosaur fossil ever discovered in Mississippi has been called “incredibly unusual” by state officials. It remains 85 percent buried since its discovery in 2007. Paleontologists have confirmed that the specimen was once a living hadrosaur: a family of vegetarian, duck-billed dinosaurs that lived more than 82 million years ago. But the hadrosaur … Read more

Chinese scientists find tenacious moss that can survive and thrive on Mars

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Adding a small amount of water brought the moss back to life within seconds and resumed photosynthesis, converting carbon dioxide into the oxygen and carbohydrates essential to human survival on any planet, the researchers wrote. “While there is still a long way to go to create self-sustaining habitats on other planets, we have the great … Read more

Researchers find flexible solution for separating gases

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Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For a wide range of industries, separating gases is an important part of both the process and the product. This includes separating nitrogen and oxygen from the air for medical purposes, separating carbon dioxide from other gases in the carbon capture process or removing impurities from natural gas. However, separating gases … Read more