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Technology

People trust AI to make big decisions 鈥� as long as a human checks them

Artificial intelligences are increasingly making important decisions that affect our lives, but people consider the calls made to be fairer and more acceptable if a human is in the loop too

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Medical workers disinfect beds at an Ebola treatment centre in Mubende, Uganda

Health

Uganda struggles to contain Ebola variant with no approved vaccine

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Environment

How will Germany navigate its gas shortage nightmare this winter?

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Jupiter's moon Europa

Space

NASA鈥檚 Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years

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The Hubble Space Telescope

Space

SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan

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Galaxies merging

Space

When two galaxies collide they often stop making new stars

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Health

Genetic test for cancer is less accurate for Black and Asian people

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Earth

Western Arctic Ocean is acidifying four times faster than other oceans

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For the first time, NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have taken simultaneous observations of the same target. These images, Hubble on left and Webb on the right, show observations of the Didymos-Dimorphos system several hours after NASA?s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally impacted the moonlet asteroid. It was the world?s first test of the kinetic impact technique using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid by modifying its orbit. Both Webb and Hubble observed the asteroid before and after the collision took place. 杏吧原创s will use the combined observations from Hubble and Webb to gain knowledge about the nature of the surface of Dimorphos, how much material was ejected by the collision, how fast it was ejected, and the distribution of particle sizes in the expanding dust cloud. In the coming months, scientists will also use Webb?s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) to observe ejecta from Dimorphos further. Spectroscopic data will provide researchers with insight into the asteroid?s composition. Hubble will monitor Dimorphos ten more times over the next three weeks to monitor how the ejecta cloud expands and fades over time. Hubble observations were conducted in one filter, WFC3/UVIS F350LP (assigned the color blue), while Webb observed at F070W (0.7 microns, assigned the color red).

Space

Hubble and JWST both saw the aftermath of NASA’s DART asteroid mission

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Technology

Emissions from mining a single bitcoin have increased 126-fold

Between 2016 and 2021, the carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin have increased from 0.9 tonnes to 113 tonnes per coin

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Technology

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants to build a metaverse open to all

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Humans

How ancient glass destroyed by the Beirut explosion was reconstructed

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Life

Newly recognised species of sloth has a head like a coconut

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Health

Air pollution raises our risk of a stroke and its later complications

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