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The 1999 Warframe expansion features a shopping mall, a romance system, and you can even fight a boy band

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Warframe has fully embraced its weird side in the past few expansions, but if you thought atmospheric westerns and long-lost dimension-shifting laboratories were the most the free-to-play shooter could do, brace yourself: developer Digital Extremes has revealed the first gameplay for its upcoming 1999 story expansion, and, well, let’s just say you’re going into space … Read more

Scientists unveil prototype spacesuit system that recycles urine as drinking water | CNN

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — A marvel of the sci-fi film franchise “Dune” is the survival gear worn by the desert-dwelling Fremen — “stillsuits” that recycle all bodily fluids into drinking water. Now, such technology appears to be … Read more

Giant Eyeball: Perfect Place to Search for Life Outside the Solar System

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A exoplanet What was identified in 2017 as one of the most promising locations for life outside the solar system has now become even more promising – and a lot weirder. The alien world Evidence suggests that LHS-1140b is an “eyeball” planet, with a global ocean covered in ice and a single, iris-shaped region about … 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

A first physical system to learn nonlinear tasks without a traditional computer processor

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Sam Dillavou, a postdoctoral fellow in the Durian Research Group in the School of Arts & Sciences, built the components of this contrasting local learning network, an analog system that is fast, energy-efficient, scalable, and can learn nonlinear tasks. Credit: Erica Moser Scientists face many trade-offs in building and scaling brain-like systems that can perform … Read more

Beyond the Northern Lights: How Solar Flares Spread Across the Solar System

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52 minutes ago By means of Jonathan O’Callaghan, NASA/SDO (Source: NASA/SDO) The sun is currently extremely active, seeding the biggest solar storms on Earth in 20 years. Here’s what it’s doing to the rest of the solar system. If you happened to be looking up at the sky a few nights in May 2024, chances … Read more

Giant river system that existed 40 million years ago discovered deep beneath Antarctic ice

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A decent sized boat floats in ocean water next to the vertical incline of an ice cliff.

Geologists exploring the vast West Antarctic ice sheet have discovered the remains of an ancient river system that once stretched nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers). The discovery offers a glimpse into Earth’s history and hints at how extreme climate change could reshape the planet, according to their findings published June 5 in the journal Science … Read more

Bionic legs directly connected to nervous system enable unprecedented level of brain control

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Helping amputees walk naturally – YouTube View on A groundbreaking surgical procedure gives amputees bionic limbs that are controlled directly by the nervous system, allowing patients to sense the position of the limb in space. Scientists have demonstrated the success of this technique in a new study of seven people who were given bionic legs, … Read more

It looks like Destiny 2 will finally leave our solar system next year

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Bungie has been exploring the depths of our solar system for the past decade, but it looks like it’s finally gearing up to go somewhere new, or rather somewhereotherwise. At least that’s what seems to be happening in Destination‘s 11th year, that is provisionally titled Borders. What is Dragonsplague? Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Devastating Contagion Explained … Read more