Archivists Want AI to Help Save, Analyze Everything Trump Says

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(Credit: Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock) A week hasn’t even passed since the inauguration, but television news is saturated with the flurry of activity from President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump, via Twitter, promised to launch an investigation into illegal voting and threatened to “send in the Feds” if Chicago police can’t fix the “carnage.” And that was just between Tuesday and Wednesday. This heightened scrutiny compelled the Internet Archive, a ...read more

NASA Astronauts Will Don New 'Boeing Blues' Spacewear

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Astronaut Chris Ferguson looks like a man on a mission in the new suit. (Credit: Boeing) NASA’s astronauts will be looking a little blue in the near future—because of their striking new attire. Boeing has introduced a line of sleeker, smarter and perhaps most-noticeably, bluer spacewear. The suits, nick-named the “Boeing Blues,” were designed specifically for those currently being trained for flight in Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX Dragon capsules &ndash ...read more

Colliding Molecules in Mars' Atmosphere May Solve an Ancient Climate Mystery

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Features on Mars like this one, a likely river delta deposit, point to a warmer ancient past. (Image: NASA/JPL) Climate change on Earth is a well-established phenomenon, but scientists have long struggled to explain an even more dramatic change of conditions, long ago in a far-off land. Mars is a dry, frigid planet today, with an average ground temperature of about -60 °C. Liquid water seems to be possible only under a narrow range of circumstances, but for the most part, water sublimates ...read more

Grown In One Species, Organ Transplant Helps Cure Another

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From left to right: A rat-mouse chimera, regular rat and regular mouse. The rat-mouse chimera was generated by injecting mouse iPS cells into a rat embryo. (Credit: Tomoyuki Yamaguchi) An interspecies transplant turned out to be an effective cure in diabetic mice, bringing the prospect of growing made-to-order human organs in other species a bit closer to reality. It’s the first time that small parts of an organ, in this case pancreatic cells called islets, grown inside one&nbs ...read more

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