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The Diabolical Ironclad Beetle Is Way Tougher Than You - ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
Scientists are not always great at naming things. Amazingly, you can often pick up on this fact even if you don’t speak Latin. Consider the joys of …
8 hours ago
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Extreme Friday: The Moon Is Getting 4G LTE, Scientists Make Super-Tomatoes +More
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The moon might soon have better cell service than your living room. Scientists have managed to create 'super-tomatoes'. NASA’s InSight Lander has become the first to take seismic readings on another planet. Sit back and relax as we break down the week's biggest stories from the worlds of computing, space, and science.
9 hours ago
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Scientists Found an Ancient Tectonic Plate Buried Deep Inside the Earth's Mantle - ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
Plate tectonics — the slow movement of the Earth’s continents across the globe, and their interactions with each other — is a relatively new …
12 hours ago
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Researchers Make 'Super-Tomatoes' With Genetically Stressed Root Grafts - ExtremeTech
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Humans have been grafting plants onto other plants for thousands of years, but only in the last few generations have we understood the genetic …
1 day ago
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Boops Asteroid Bennu - ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has completed the most critical phase of its mission: booping an asteroid. The probe has been orbiting the asteroid …
1 day ago