Solar prominences protruding from the Sun’s corona during a total solar eclipse in Dallas in 2024.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber When the Moon blocks the Sun over Greenland, Iceland and Spain on 12 August, researchers will get roughly two minutes to study the solar corona, the Sun’s outermost layer, which is only visible to the naked eye
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Activists in San Marcos, Texas, protested against proposed data centres that would power artificial-intelligence systems.Credit: Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty As public opposition grows against the soaring energy and water demands of data centres powering the artificial-intelligence boom, some technology companies are talking about putting these facilities in space. For instance, businessman Elon Musk’s
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Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a large-scale feature in Gale’s sedimentary record suspected to be an “erosional supersurface.” The “supersurface” represents a period in time when a net depositional environment changed
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How people interpret touch can vary by background, but the areas on the body where people feel ticklish were found to be consistent across cultures.Credit: d3sign/Getty Ticklishness is a distinct, specialized body sensation, and how people experience it seems to be consistent across cultures, two neuroscientists have found. The study, published on 10 August in
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