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NASA denies setting 'new bans' for employees amid reports of removing LGBTQI+ symbols from offices

NASA claims that there are "no new bans" on employees' personal items, amid reports of the agency purging workspaces of LGBTQI+ symbols.

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Scientists alarmed as Rubin Observatory changes biography of astronomer Vera Rubin amid Trump's push to end DEI efforts

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

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The low keep getting lower, as shown by Trump’s response to the DC plane crash

When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’

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Rubin Observatory aces 1st image tests, gets ready to use world's largest digital camera

The Rubin Observatory will eventually hold the world's largest digital camera. It's therefore a good sign it has aced its first image test.

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‘She was right and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite

As a new play examines the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, we celebrate the women whose crucial discoveries were ignored or suppressed

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Nvidia stock price tied to 5 key items in Q2 earnings report

Nvidia is primed for a record-breaking move after its second quarter earnings report after the close of trading.

The Street

Analyst revisits Nvidia stock price target after Blackwell checks

Nvidia shares have added nearly $2 trillion in value this year but have risen only 3.3% over the past month.

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Analyst resets Nvidia stock price target after trillion-dollar Q2

Nvidia shares have powered around a third of the S&P 500's year-to-date gain, adding more than $1 trillion in value over the second quarter alone.

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Analyst resets Nvidia stock price target as CEO unveils new AI platform

Nvidia unveiled a new AI platform that could hit the market as early as 2026.

The Street

Nvidia Rubin revealed as Blackwell successor, powerful Vera CPU coming too

At Computex 2024 Nvidia has announced that the Rubin GPU architecture will be the successor to Blackwell. Rubin GPUs are set to splashdown in 2026, bringing support for 8-Hi HBM4 stacks, and will be followed up with Rubin Ultra GPUs, supporting 12-Hi HBM4 stacks. A powerful new CPU called Vera…

Tom’s Hardware

How scientists shipped astronomy's largest camera from California to Chile

The largest camera ever built for astronomy arrived in Chile, where it will be installed atop Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope.

Space

Nvidia might be working on new AI GPUs — but there's a catch, gamers

Nvidia is reportedly underway on a future generation of AI-focused GPUs, codenamed Rubin, but who are they really for?

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Nvidia might already be working on a future generation of AI-focused GPUs, codenamed Rubin

Nvidia's next GPU series, Rubin, could end up improving AI features from the Blackwell series while lowering its power consumption.

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New Scientific Data Shows That Dark Matter Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

Dark matter appears to be more complex than we thought: a new scientific approach is trying to get to the bottom of the cold dark matter concept. The post New Scientific Data Shows That Dark Matter Is Even Stranger Than We Thought first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The world's largest digital camera is ready to investigate the dark universe

The 3,200-megapixel LSST camera, build for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is completed. It will create "the greatest movie of all time" to crack the mystery of dark energy.

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If dark matter is 'invisible,' how do we know it exists?

Dark matter is the mysterious substance that accounts for most of the universe's mass, but it doesn't interact with light, making it effectively invisible. So how do astronomers know dark matter exists?

The Conversation

We don't know if dark matter exists. So why do astronomers keep looking?

Scientists know very little about the matter that makes up the galaxies in the Universe. About 20% of the matter in galaxies is visible or baryonic: subatomic particles like protons, neutrons and electrons. The other 80%, referred to as “dark matter”, remains mysterious and unseen.

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The search for dark matter

In a gold mine at the edge of a rugged mountain range, scientists are searching for something no-one has ever seen.

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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Phizzy Physics

Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth: Stephen Hawking

Inverse

In the search for dark matter, an unexpected tool may give scientists hope

The science seems to be on the side of physicists hunting the stuff — but there's another unexpected source of help from the humanities: philosophy.

The Conversation

Dark matter: should we be so sure it exists? Here's how philosophy can help

It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed “dark matter”, which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Despite this, we have no idea what it is – nobody has directly seen it or produced it in the lab.

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