Amid a disastrous start to the season and rampant speculation about his future, Bill Belichick and North Carolina reportedly aren’t paying attention to the outside noise. On Thursday’s episode of Get Up, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Belichick and UNC officials “don’t believe” the rumors “floating around” right now. “There’s a lot of chatter out there right now, and I’ve been …
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By now, a handful of technologies are leading contenders for producing a useful quantum computer. Companies have used them to build machines with dozens to hundreds of qubits, the error rates are coming down, and they’ve largely shifted from worrying about basic scientific problems to dealing with engineering challenges. Yet even at this apparently late date in the field’s development, …
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“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Thousands of pieces of space junk are littering low-Earth orbit (LEO), potentially imperiling the future of human spaceflight. A new study highlights a novel idea to clean up this orbital mess using bidirectional plasma thrusters improved …
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Earth has a new friend — and it’s been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery of a mysterious object that appears to be a “quasi-moon,” or a small asteroid that orbits the Sun, but in an arc that puts it …
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“Space Has a Tesla Floating Forever”: Elon Musk’s Cherry-Red Roadster Orbits Sun With Starman Mannequin Driving for Millions of Years Rude Baguette Source link
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President Donald Trump has picked Jim O’Neill, a former investor and critic of health regulations serving under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to take control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out. O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy at the Department of Health and Human Services, will supplant Susan Monarez, …
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Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on a miniature scale. An analysis of new JWST observations on a number of rogue planets – each weighing between five and 10 Jupiters – has revealed the presence of disks …
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The Big Ten has considered an idea of a massive expansion of the College Football Playoff that would grow the postseason to 24 or 28 teams, sources told ESPN. While the idea is in the very early stages, the proposal eliminates conference title games and offers a large number of auto bids for all four power leagues, sources said. For …
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President Trump wrote Sunday that homeless people should be moved out of Washington, D.C., “IMMEDIATELY” and relocated “FAR” away, as he hints at more aggressive policing in the nation’s capital — and suggests putting the city under federal control. The Trump administration announced last week it had boosted the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C., after the alleged assault …
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The group of six who accidentally floated to Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River near Bend were in inner tubes tied together and included a Texas woman who had just celebrated her 40th birthday and a 33-year-old woman from Florida, authorities said Tuesday. Three of the six were able to jump from the inner tubes and make it safely to …
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