The Virtual Tribune
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NASA-Linked Group Wants Next-Generation Telescopes to Hunt for Alien Technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — The hunt for Dyson spheres, those hypothetical megastructures that would wrap a star…
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How the Penrose Process Could Draw Energy From a Spinning Black Hole
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — A theoretical energy source first sketched out in 1969 is now being re-examined…
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Cambridge-Led Aardvark AI Weather Model Runs Forecasts on a Desktop Computer
NEW DELHI, July 26 — How does a weather forecast for Shimla or Kolkata actually get made in…
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper Launches First Satellites to Take On Starlink
SEATTLE, July 26 — The shift is here: satellite broadband has gone from a niche play to a…
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IEA Electricity 2024 Outlook: Renewables to Pass One-Third of Global Power by Early 2025
PARIS, July 26 — The International Energy Agency’s ‘Electricity 2024’ report projects that renewables will generate more than…
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Scientists at MIT Workshop Weigh How to Spot Dyson Spheres Around Black Holes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In a closed workshop this past November, a small group of the world’s top astrophysicists…
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Who Owns SpaceX: Musk, Alphabet, Fidelity and Founders Fund Hold the Stakes
BOSTON, July 26 — For most people, investing in SpaceX is about as realistic as booking a ticket…
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Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake Strikes Off Atka in Alaska’s Aleutians, No Tsunami Threat
ATKA, Alaska, July 26 — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck 99 kilometers southeast of Atka, Alaska, at 08:35…
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Iran’s Attack on Israel Pushes Oil, Gas and Gold Higher as Markets Brace
Against the backdrop of the Persian Gulf’s shimmering strategic waterways, the Strait of Hormuz once again occupies the…
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Astrophotography From Daguerre’s Failed 1839 Moon Shot to Modern CCD Imaging
MANILA, July 25 — The night sky has always drawn eyes upward, but turning that gaze into a…
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US Energy Department Runs Nuclear Weapons, National Labs and a $17.5 Billion Reactor Loan Push
WASHINGTON, July 25 — The United States Department of Energy occupies a singular position on the American national…
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High Pressure Heat Domes Trap Hot Air And Amplify Extreme Temperatures
WASHINGTON, July 25 — A sprawling, stagnant high-pressure system that meteorologists call a heat dome has become a…
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Oil Hits Two-Week High as Hormuz Stays Shut and US Lets Russian Waiver Lapse
GENEVA, July 25 — The US Treasury issued a 60-day waiver on sanctions covering Iranian oil exports on…
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How EFFIS tracks Europe’s wildfires with experts from 43 countries
BRUSSELS, July 25 — The European Forest Fire Information System started logging wildfire data in the year 2000,…
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Diesel Fuel Explained: From Peanut Oil in 1900 to Ultra-Low-Sulfur Standards
MOSCOW, July 25 — The liquid fuel known as diesel, designed for compression-ignition engines, remains a backbone of…
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Starlink’s role in modern warfare raises policy concerns
KYIV, July 25 — In the tangled geography of modern warfare, where a signal from space can tilt…
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Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake Off Mexico Triggers Tsunami Warning, No Major Damage Reported
MEXICO CITY, July 25 — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck 43 kilometres southwest of Puerto Madero, Mexico, at…
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Data Centers’ Water Demands Spark Resistance From Chile to Uruguay and Brazil
WASHINGTON, July 25 — The hum of servers inside the world’s data centers is getting louder — and…
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JET, Europe’s fusion reactor, shuts down after 40 years
LONDON, July 25 — Against the backdrop of a decommissioning effort that will stretch into the 2040s, the…
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Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 book warned against central planning
VIENNA, July 25 — The city of Vienna, once the intellectual crucible of the Austrian school of economics,…
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Light Pollution Hides the Milky Way From More Than a Third of the World
WASHINGTON, July 25 — Light pollution has escalated into a global environmental crisis that now affects the overwhelming…
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Houthi Blockade of Saudi Arabia Pushes Brent Crude Above $100 a Barrel
RIYADH, July 20 — The Houthi blockade declaration in the Red Sea has sent a jolt through global…
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NASA Puts Early $2.1 Billion Price Tag on Nuclear-Powered Mars Spacecraft
WASHINGTON, July 21 – NASA’s plan to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine for deep-space travel has hit…
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Satellites Dodge Debris as ESA Warns Orbit Cleanup Lags
LONDON, July 16 — The space around our planet is getting crowded, and not in a good way.…
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