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Restoring the first recording of computer music
Audio archivists struggle to verify historical recordings' correct pitch. The earliest known computer-generated music was recorded by the BBC in 1951 at Alan Turing's Manchester lab.
by Jack Copeland (from the archives)
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Restoring the first recording of computer music
Listen to the earliest known recording of computer-generated music, captured in 1951 with a BBC portable acetate disc cutter.www.bl.uk
Hidden Ancient River System Found Deep Under The Surface of Mars
Hidden Ancient River System Found Deep Under The Surface of Mars : ScienceAlert
Far away, alone in a crater on a planet inhabited only by robots, NASA's Perseverance rover explores a dry landscape that was once a river system billions of years ago.Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)
Ubuntu: root-Lücke durch snapd | heise online - Deutschland
Eine Schwachstelle in den Standard-Installationen von Ubuntu Desktop ermöglicht Angreifern, auf verwundbaren Systemen root-Rechte zu erlangen. Damit könnenDeutschland
Good news, folks! mRNA vaccines don't cause "turbo cancers" — first, because those don't exist, and second, because mRNA technology has been studied for decades and large population studies have found no increased cancer risk at all following vaccination. Here's more from @TheConversationUS on how the rapid spread of vaccine misinformation is threatening the development of this potentially transformative technology.
#Science #COVID #Vaccination #Misinformation #Cancer
Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential
False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.The Conversation
US judge blocks efforts to reshape childhood #vaccine policy
#law #PublicHealth #health #medicine #science #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories
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Reflect Orbital and SpaceX have filed proposals with the US Federal Communications Commission that threaten ground-based astronomy. We submitted replies and collaborated with the UK Royal Astronomical Society & the International Astronomical Union for their responses. 1/
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
You haven’t noticed that the days are getting ever so slightly longer, but a new study shows that they are — and it points to climate change. @euronews explains what’s happening and why it can be a problem:
#Science #ClimateChange #Climate #GlobalWarming
‘Unprecedented in the past 3.6 million years’: How human-made climate change is making days longer
Human activity is responsible for slowing Earth’s spin and making days longer, according to a new study.Liam Gilliver (Euronews)
Potentially good news for sleep apnea sufferers from the field of medicine. Participants in a clinical drug trial who took the highest daily dose of an epilepsy drug had nearly 50 percent fewer breathing interruptions while sleeping. @ScienceAlert has more:
#Science #Health #SleepHealth #SleepApnea #Humans
Repurposed Drug Improves Sleep Apnea by Up to 50% in Clinical Trial : ScienceAlert
Sleeping with a clunky breathing machine is a problem for many with sleep apnea, but a more comfortable alternative is on the horizon.Carly Cassella (ScienceAlert)
15% of asteroids near Earth actually have small moons orbiting them. Images taken by NASA's DART spacecraft have been examined and found that such asteroids are transferring material between each other. In a gentle collisions they are actively exchanging rocks and dust. The cause is sunlight which makes them spin faster and enabling material to fly off. Some of this material forms moons.astrobiology.com/2026/03/new-n…
New NASA DART Mission Data Reveals that Asteroids Throw 'Cosmic Snowballs' at Each Other - Astrobiology
About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic neighborhoodKeith Cowing (Astrobiology)
The annual Ig Nobels, the awards for odd and funny scientific achievement, will be held outside the United States for the first time in its 36 years because of concerns about attendees' safety. The 2026 ceremony, which takes place in September ahead of the Nobel Prizes, will be held in Zurich. “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year," Marc Abrahams, editor of event organizers the Annals of Improbable Research, told @AssociatedPress.
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"Ask most people, and the image of wind turbines as bird killers still persists, often amplified by anti-renewable rhetoric. But if you look at the hard data, a different story emerges. It turns out that while wind turbines do kill birds, they are statistically insignificant compared to the bigger killers we have in our cities and in our bedrooms. In fact, when you factor in climate change, wind power might actually help birds."
Data not only shows the relative impact of wind turbines on bird deaths, but also gives us the insight to reduce their impact further.
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The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data
The harm caused by wind turbines isn't nearly as bad as you think.Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)
New Tick-Borne Bacteria Discovered in U.S. Dogs
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New Tick-Borne Bacteria Discovered in U.S. Dogs
A newly confirmed bacterial species, Rickettsia finnyi, has been identified in dogs with symptoms resembling Rocky Mountain spotted fever.Colin Collins (SciTechDaily)
