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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to permit Ukraine to make use of Starlink web companies to launch a shock assault on Russian forces in Crimea final September has raised questions as as to if the U.S. army must be extra specific in future contracts that companies or merchandise it purchases may very well be utilized in struggle, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall mentioned Monday. ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has detected carbon dioxide and methane within the environment of exoplanet K2-18 b, a probably liveable world greater than eight instances the dimensions of Earth. The ground-breaking discovery has led astronomers to think about the chance that K2-18 b could belong to a singular class of exoplanets often called "Hycean" planets, which possess hydrogen-rich atmospheres and probably water-covered surfaces, making them potential candidates for all times. The preliminary insights had been made doable by observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.K2-18 b orbits a cool dwarf star known as K2-18, round 120 light-years away from Earth, throughout the constellation Leo - and sits throughout the liveable zone.These exoplanets, with sizes between Earth ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A serious rescue operation is underway in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains to carry out an American researcher who fell critically sick 9 days in the past at a depth of some 1,000 meters (3,000 ft) from the doorway of one of many world’s deepest caves. An skilled cave rescuer himself, Mark Dickey is being assisted by groups of worldwide rescuers who by Monday had introduced him to 100 meters (some 330 ft) from the floor. ...

South Dakota regulators on Monday rejected a allow software for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline via the state, dealing a contemporary setback to the corporate behind the multistate mission after North Dakota refused a siting allow for an additional leg there. ...

Modest, mild-mannered and unassuming, Ian Wilmut did not match the favored stereotype of the pioneering scientist. But his work that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996 wasn't only a landmark in regenerative medication - it helped reshape the connection between science and society. The organic significance of Dolly the sheep is usually misunderstood. She wasn't the primary clone of a mammal. Wilmut's crew and others had beforehand cloned sheep utilizing cells taken from sheep embryos.Dolly mattered as a result of she was the primary mammal to be cloned utilizing grownup tissue, or "somatic" cells.Until the breakthrough on the lab on the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, biologists believed that after a mammalian cell had matured into a particular tissue kind, it was unimaginable to...

The Rand Corp. is warning that new synthetic intelligence instruments will present China with a pathway to make use of social media to extra successfully manipulate individuals worldwide.  ...

The U.S. authorities is taking intention at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has turn out to be the web’s foremost gateway. ...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the person who led the group behind the well-known cloned sheep Dolly, has died.Described as a "titan of the scientific world", he was 79. Announcing Sir Ian's loss of life, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, the vice chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, mentioned: "We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Sir Ian Wilmut."He was a titan of the scientific world, main the Roslin Institute group who cloned Dolly the sheep - the primary mammal to be cloned from an grownup cell - which remodeled scientific considering on the time."This breakthrough continues to gasoline most of the advances which have been made within the subject of regenerative drugs that we see at the moment. "Our thoughts are with Ian's family at this time."Professor Sir Ian ...

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court docket Friday considerably whittled down a decrease court docket’s order curbing Biden administration communications with social media firms over controversial content material about COVID-19 and different points. ...

Apple has seen round $200bn (£160bn) wiped off its worth after China prolonged its curbs on iPhone use by authorities staff.Shares within the tech big have tumbled by 6.4% over the past two days in response to Beijing ordering some state workers to cease utilizing the units. The transfer has fuelled fears Apple and its suppliers may pay a industrial value for persevering with tensions between the US and China and rising competitors from rival Huawei, which has simply launched two new smartphones.The transfer comes simply days earlier than Apple is anticipated to launch its new iPhone 15.And it alerts a comeback by China's "national champion", after Huawei's smartphone enterprise suffered a stoop when the agency was positioned on a commerce blacklist over nationwide safety con...