Sweden’s solution to stop spam callers: Be ruder!
Swedish police have a message for anyone who thinks they’re talking to spam callers: hang up the phone, and embrace being rude. Local authorities are teaming up with five national…
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With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week. The PRIMA mission will be…
Explosive Intensification for Hurricane Polo
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NASA’s Machines for Mars Make Beer Bubbly
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A brewer makes adjustments to the Earthly Labs carbon-capture unit, which purifies carbon dioxide from the beer brewing process…
There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before
The world has known for decades that the RSA cryptosystem’s days are numbered. Once quantum computing becomes practical (estimates for that range from 3 to 20 or more years), the…
Cloudy Cloak Over the Northwest
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Soviet ‘sea monster’ inspired this futuristic ‘flying boat’
Visitors traveling across Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay earlier this month may have seen a strange-looking boat with wings and a whale-like tail floating in the estuary’s calm late-summer waters. Eventually,…
Original ‘Star Trek’ USS Enterprise heads to MIT after resurfacing on eBay
The long-lost, original USS Enterprise from Star Trek has resurfaced just in time to celebrate the beloved science-fiction series’ 60th anniversary. While the 33-inch-long model will soon be on public…
Contrary to some reports, you don’t have two brains
Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans.…
Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis
Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the…