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Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins

As planets and stars travel through the streams of charged particles flowing across space, their magnetic fields act like obstacles; incoming particles are slowed and deflected, forming a boundary called the bow shock; just ahead of this boundary lies the foreshock, a variable region where magnetic conditions can accelerate some particles to nearly the speed of light. Image credit: Ben C. Smith, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator, firing electrons to relativistic energies of at least 1 MeV, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

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NASA Captures Typhoon Jangmi’s Massive Eye in Stunning Nighttime Image

Typhoon Jangmi May 30Typhoon Jangmi dazzled from space with a giant swirling eye while drenching parts of Japan with heavy rain. From late May into early June 2026, Typhoon Jangmi slowly tracked north-northwest across the Philippine Sea on a path toward southern Japan. Although the storm moved at a relatively slow pace, it spread intense rainfall across a [...]
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Tesla pushes Roadster demo to August as SpaceX thruster work continues

Tesla has pushed the planned public demo of its next-generation Roadster to August or later, according to a report from The Information citing four people with knowledge of the program. It marks yet another delay for the vehicle first unveiled as a prototype nearly nine years ago.

The demo, expected to take place in Texas, is meant to showcase the SpaceX cold gas thruster system that Tesla claims will allow the Roadster to achieve extreme acceleration and even lift off the ground.

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Super Typhoon Sinlaku Was So Powerful It Made the Sky Ripple With Gravity Waves

Super Typhoon Sinlaku Atmospheric Gravity WavesA rapidly intensifying super typhoon sent giant atmospheric ripples skyward, revealing a hidden connection between extreme weather and near-space. In April 2026, Super Typhoon Sinlaku swept across the North Pacific, bringing torrential rain and flooding to parts of the Mariana Islands. The storm intensified into a “violent typhoon,” the highest category used by the Japan [...]
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Votre futur PC pourrait vous obéir comme R2-D2 : Nvidia dévoile RTX Spark et sa vision pour l’ordinateur du futur

Au Computex, Jensen Huang n’est pas seulement venu présenter une nouvelle puce ARM pour Windows. À travers RTX Spark, le patron de Nvidia dessine surtout une vision beaucoup plus ambitieuse de l’avenir du PC, qui serait destiné à devenir comme R2-D2.

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Fusão nuclear, IA e conectividade: Três forças que moldam a indústria do futuro

Ivo Ivanov aborda algumas das áreas que acredita irem marcar as tendências de futuro, destacando a inovação na fusão nuclear, inteligência artificial e na conetividade.

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Half-Ton Cattle Relatives Roamed Europe 4 Million Years Ago

Paleoartistic reconstruction of the environment in the surrounding of Camp dels Ninots maar lake during the Early Pliocene. Image credit: Mauricio Antón.

Near-complete bovine skeletons unearthed the Early Pliocene site of Camp dels Ninots in northeastern Spain reveal that the ancestors of today’s buffalo and cattle were already growing to impressive sizes long before humans arrived on the continent.

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ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order

NASA has told crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to resume normal operations, ending a roughly two-hour period in which five astronauts sheltered inside a docked SpaceX capsule. The shelter order came Friday morning as a precautionary measure to protect crew while Russian cosmonauts attempted a fix on the Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnelContinue reading "ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order"

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Cinco projetos portugueses querem impulsionar investigação nas áreas do Espaço, fusão nuclear e física de partículas

Os projetos foram aprovados no contexto de um aviso ligado aos Roteiros Tecnológicos Big Science, que corresponde a uma das medidas do programa “Acelerar a Economia”, reforçando a presença da indústria nacional em grandes projetos internacionais de Big Science, avança a ANI.

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How NASA plans to build a Moon Base

NASA announced new contracts for the rovers and landers that will lay the groundwork for the agency’s proposed $30-billion Moon Base — some of which they plan to launch as soon as this fall — during a May 26 press conference. The announcement offered the most detailed look yet into the Moon Base plan NASAContinue reading "How NASA plans to build a Moon Base"

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“Dark Patterns” continuam a manipular consumidores online. Literacia digital ajuda mas “não nos torna invulneráveis”

No podcast especial do projeto Segue os Teus Direitos, Ricardo Lafuente, designer e ativista da D3 – Defesa dos Direitos Digitais, explica como técnicas de design manipulador continuam a condicionar decisões dos utilizadores e porque a regulação europeia é essencial para travar abusos.

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Le jour où la plus large tornade jamais observée a piégé trois célèbres chasseurs d’orages en plein tournage

C’est un événement qui a profondément marqué la communauté météorologique à travers le monde :  il y a quelques années, trois des plus célèbres chasseurs d’orages américains, et stars de la télévision, ont été tués par une tornade en pleine tournage pour une grande chaîne de télévision.

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Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found

This Webb image shows the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb.

A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed quiescent galaxy seen when the Universe was just 3 billion years old, according to an analysis of data collected by the NIRSpec Integral Field Spectrograph onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

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Alarme na Estação Espacial ultrapassado: NASA cancela evacuação de astronautas devido a fuga de oxigénio

Os quatro astronautas da missão Crew-12 foram instruídos pela NASA a vestir os fatos espaciais e a refugiarem-se na cápsula Dragon, enquanto cosmonautas russos tentam uma reparação mais extensa no módulo Zvezda.

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Empreendedoras portuguesas distinguidas na 12.ª edição do Prémio Europeu para Mulheres Inovadoras

Além de Ella Frances Cullen, cofundadora da Minespider, que vencedora na categoria Liderança Feminina EIT, Neide Vieira, cofundadora da IPLEXMED também foi distinguida pela 12.ª edição do Prémio Europeu para Mulheres Inovadoras.

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Scientists Discover Rogue Gene That Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments

DNA Mutation Cancer Genetics Disease BioengineeringA gene normally responsible for repairing DNA may have a darker side when produced in excess. Cancer treatment is increasingly moving beyond where a tumor forms and focusing instead on the genetic flaws that drive it. Now, researchers at Penn State College of Medicine have identified an unexpected DNA repair gene that could help expand [...]
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Tracking “Ghosts”: Night-time thermal imaging still of a next-generation fighter jet leaked online

A thermal imaging still has been circulating rapidly online, allegedly capturing an unidentified aerial vehicle flying at night near the Groom Lake military base in Nevada, commonly known as Area 51. The image has prompted active discussion and comparisons with publicly available information about the development of a next-generation low-observable fighter aircraft for the United […]

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