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It sounds like a sci-fi video game, but this is a color analyzer at the National Archives! 🕹️ With this machine, preservation staff can view and set light cues for film negatives and adjust light levels for red, green, and blue at specific frames. #AmericanArchivesMonth
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) - enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe - were first discovered in 2007. Their origins are difficult to pinpoint, but Webb found the host galaxy to the most distant FRB seen to date. go.nasa.gov/4emggqZ
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It was found in the UK! 🎉 Acquired by the Natural History Museum in 1924, this fossil went overlooked in a drawer for more than a century. Now, scientists have revealed it belongs to a previously unknown dinosaur species!
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Early riser? Live in Houston? Look up around 5:36 a.m. CDT on Thursday to see a @SpaceX Dragon and the station soar overhead during rendezvous operations.
Look up, Houston! You might just see double. 👀 Thursday morning around 5:36 a.m. CDT, you could catch not one, but TWO spacecraft passing overhead! The International @Space_Station and @NASA’s @SpaceX CRS-35 cargo spacecraft will be visible in the Houston sky ahead of docking. Consider it a cosmic double feature before your morning coffee! ☕
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Are your $9 daily PSLs really worth it?
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Want genAI to make you a functional, real-world object? Good luck — their 3D models are often physically flawed & hard to edit. New "InstructMesh" tool makes it easy to generate, tweak, & 3D print things that actually work, such as decor & medical devices: bit.ly/4z5L5bu
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Build an assistant that can store and search what it sees, hears, and is told, all without leaving the device. In Building AI Assistants with On-Device Memory, you'll build a local memory system that recalls text, voice, and images, and teach it to recognize something new from a few photos. Built in partnership with @qdrant_engine and taught by @DylanCouzon, Developer Experience Engineer at Qdrant. This course also includes our new AI coding lab, so you can practice building with an AI coding agent from the DeepLearning.AI mobile app. Enroll for free: hubs.la/Q04y3S0F0
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Crikey! Meet Irwin’s snapping turtle. The late Steve Irwin, and his father Bob, spotted this rare reptile in the early 1990s & contacted herpetologist John Cann. He was the first to describe this species—and he named it after the Irwins! It can be found in Queensland, Australia.
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C.H. Waddington's iconic landscape drawings have hugely influenced biology and predicted the field of epigenetics. But are they anything more than a metaphor? quantamagazine.org/how-does-…
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Today, Aug. 7, Smithsonian museums and locations on the National Mall are open. We look forward to seeing you! Plan your visit: si.edu/visit
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“This is probably the coolest experiment in organic chemistry,” said Peter Somfai, a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, speaking at Wednesday's announcement go.nature.com/4hEIxv5
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Mortadella Please! Festival 📍Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹 Taste Bologna: tasteatlas.com/bologna From 9 to 11 October 2026, Zola Predosa, the world capital of mortadella, hosts the 17th edition of Mortadella Please!, the festival dedicated to the Bolognese cold cut par excellence. As every year, there will be traditional food stands where you can taste mortadella in all its variations, thanks to traditional and innovative recipes. There will also be conferences, in-depth studies, workshops and a children's area. The programme also includes visits to the Alcisa and Felsineo factories, the main producers of mortadella in the Bologna area.
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Artemis II update! We just dropped 814GB of observations — including nearly 1,000 new images and 521 minutes of crew audio — in our Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report: go.nasa.gov/3TKBfwz
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Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the Denisovans has revealed that the region was once also home to a previously unknown species of yak newscientist.com/article/259…
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Time to bring them home 🌎 After nearly eight months aboard the @Space_Station, the four members of Crew-12 will soon head back to Earth. We’re targeting no earlier than 8:05am EDT (1205 UTC), on Wednesday, Oct. 7, for the undocking of the @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Details: go.nasa.gov/4s8iyjv
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“I have spent a lifetime honing my daily practice, worshipping at the altar of ‘good enough.’ Today, I am neither superrich nor superfit nor supersuccessful. But I have just enough of each to qualify in my own personal marathon: the race for a balanced life.” s.hbr.org/4cHeujN
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Introducing Automations in Perplexity Computer. Automations are for ongoing work. They can take action in response to event-based triggers or on a schedule. Automations work with your memory, skills, and connected apps like Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Linear.
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