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Bizarre Chernobyl Fungus 'Uses Radiation for Energy', Sparking Awe at Life Thriving In a Nuclear Disaster Zone

A Chernobyl fungus that grows faster under radiation is drawing new scientific interest, revealing surprising resilience inside the nuclear disaster zone.

International Business Times UK

James Webb Space Telescope spies mysterious high-energy radiation in star nursery

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered puzzling ultraviolet radiation around young stars in a stellar nursery.

Space

Data corruption hobbles Airbus fleet, firm orders immediate software fix for 6,000 planes due to data corruption from intense sun radiation

Airbus has instructed airlines worldwide to implement an urgent software update on roughly 6,000 A320-family aircraft after investigators traced an October in-flight incident to corrupted flight-control data.

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Airbus 320 Flight Disruption Linked to Solar Radiation: Experts Explain the True Level of Danger

Thousands of Airbus A320-family jets have been pulled for urgent software fixes after a solar storm triggered a sudden mid-air descent on a JetBlue flight

International Business Times UK

‘Significant number’ of Airbus flights could be cancelled due to solar radiation

British Airways, easyJet and Wizz Air rely on the A320 family for their European flights – but all say they have no disruption

The Independent UK

James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy's monster black hole fire out a flare

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, have allowed scientists to better understand how this cosmic titan fires off flares.

Space

Plutonium Found at Former San Francisco Naval Shipyard – Navy Faces Cover-Up Claims

Shocking detection of plutonium-239 at Hunters Point sparks outrage over Navy's 11-month delay. Explore health risks, Superfund site history, community backlash

International Business Times UK

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Government ‘not in favour’ of controversial efforts to dim the sun

The controversial topic was highlighted in a Parliament debate

The Independent UK

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says AI compute in space will be the lowest-cost option in 5 years — but Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it's a 'dream'

Elon Musk argues that terawatt-scale AI computing will soon be impossible to power and cool on Earth and must move to orbit. But despite abundant solar energy and radiative cooling in GEO, launch mass, radiation-hardening, and networking challenges make such space-based data center only a distant dream.

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Moss in space: spores survive nine-month ride on outside of ISS

Scientists say plant’s resilience suggests it could help with oxygen generation or soil formation on space missions

The Guardian - UK

Goldman Sachs Says ASML Could See Massive Revenue Surge By 2030 As Demand For Key AI Component EUV Soars

Goldman Sachs analysts projected that ASML Holdings‘ (NASDAQ:ASML) revenue could more than double its 2030 expectations, driven by the escalating demand for extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV), a critical component of AI infrastructure.

Benzinga

‘It would be cheaper if I died:’ Cancer patients are battling insurance companies for their lives

IN FOCUS: EXCLUSIVE: Cancer patients, oncologists and advocates tell Rhian Lubin why the US health insurance system needs urgent reform, and is risking the lives of Americans fighting the disease

The Independent UK

New generation of space labs could offer hope for motor neurone disease sufferers

Low gravity and intense cosmic radiation, which ages cells, could unlock treatments for currently incurable diseases, scientists say

The Independent UK

ISS astronauts take cover from radiation as solar storms spark auroras across the planet

The International Space Station's three Russian cosmonauts were instructed to spend a night in a laboratory module to shelter from radiation during a solar storm.

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 'Not As Pure As Thought,' Baffling Astronomers

Astronomers are baffled after new JWST data shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is 'not as pure as thought', featuring a thick 'irradiated crust' from 7 billion years of cosmic radiation damage.

International Business Times

Earth vs. Mars Comparison: Exploring What Makes Earth the Perfect Habitable Planet for Life

Explore the Earth and Mars comparison to discover why Earth is the perfect habitable planet, uniquely sustaining life on Earth with ideal conditions.

Euronews

Radiation therapy does not improve survival rates for some women with breast cancer, study finds

A new international study found that radiation therapy did not affect 10-year survival rates for women with early-stage breast cancer who were considered “intermediate risk”.

International Business Times

Mars Exploration and the Future of Human Spaceflight: How NASA's Missions Are Paving the Way

Learn about past and upcoming Mars missions, NASA's role in Mars exploration, and the future of human space travel, including technological innovations and challenges.

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Evening Standard

‘Rogue’ action by countries to geoengineer climate could worsen impacts – study

Royal Society assessment says solar radiation modification techniques could reduce global temperatures if done in a globally coordinated way.

International Business Times UK

Why Are The Chernobyl Stray Dogs Coloured Blue? Here's What The Researchers Say About It

The three Chernobyl stray dogs were most likely just having a great time rolling in a broken portable toilet where bright blue chemical fluid had leaked, turning their fur blue.

LiveScience

Comet 3I/ATLAS has been transformed by billions of years of space radiation, James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a thick irradiated crust that no longer resembles its home star system, simulations and James Webb Space Telescope observations have found.

Tom’s Hardware

American startup Substrate promises 2nm-class chipmaking with particle accelerators, at a tenth of the cost of EUV — X-ray lithography system has potential to surpass ASML's EUV scanners

A U.S. startup is developing a compact particle-accelerator-based X-ray lithography system that could surpass ASML's EUV scanners in resolution and cut wafer costs tenfold by the end of the decade, but its plan to build its own fabs rather than sell tools means it must reinvent the entire semiconductor production…

The Conversation

Mission to Mars: how space exploration pushes the human body to its limits

On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new “Vision for Space Exploration”, promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa’s Artemis programme is preparing to return astronauts to the Moon and, eventually, send humans to Mars.

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Chernobyl firefighters dove into radioactive water on a suicide mission. Decades later, the world finally learns that explosion could wipe out half of Europe

Five million gallons of water standing between Europe and total catastrophe.

LiveScience

The next Carrington-level solar superstorm could wipe out 'all our satellites,' new simulations reveal

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting satellites — and it is a question of "when," not "if" this will happen, experts say.

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