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Scientists May Have Found the Smallest Clump of Dark Matter Ever Seen — and It’s Still a Million Times Heavier Than the Sun

Scientists May Have Found the Smallest Clump of Dark Matter Ever Seen — and It’s Still a Million Times Heavier Than the Sun

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colored). The dark, low-mass object is located at the gap in the bright part of the arc on the right hand side. Credit : Keck/EVN/GBT/VLBA For decades, astronomers have searched for something they cannot see. They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of …

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Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense

Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense

Google says it is starting a cyber “disruption unit,” a development that arrives in a potentially shifting U.S. landscape toward more offensive-oriented approaches in cyberspace. But the contours of that larger shift are still unclear, and whether or to what extent it’s even possible. While there’s some momentum in policymaking and industry circles to put a greater emphasis on more …

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Power versus weight: Are the Tour de France’s top climbers getting heavier?

Power versus weight: Are the Tour de France’s top climbers getting heavier?

Jonas Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson are perhaps both expected to finish in the top five of this year’s Tour de France, lofty heights reserved for the sport’s climbers, but after stage two of the event last weekend, the pair joked about adopting a very different discipline. “You’re a sprinter now,” laughed Jorgenson, after Vingegaard had almost outsprinted Tadej Pogacar and …

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