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Raisin is a Jamaican fruit bat who has defied the odds her entire life. Beginning her life as a pup in a lab, she’s now an elderly resident at Bat World Sanctuary, living out her retirement to the fullest. Bat World Sanctuary Back in 2005, a research facility turned Raisin and several other bats over to the sanctuary. Though it’s …

Scientists are warning that creating “mirror life,” a radical new concept in synthetic biology, could potentially have dangerous repercussions if such organisms escaped the lab, where they may cause irreversible damage to humans and the world around us. The concerns were detailed in a recent report that warned that mirror cells—artificially constructed living systems assembled from reversed molecular building blocks—might …

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — A new reusable rocket with jaws like a cosmic hippo, an innovative booster built by the company Rocket Lab, finally has its first launch pad on the Virginia coast and could make its first flight by the end of the year. The novel booster, called Neutron, is Rocket Lab’s newest and the company’s first purpose-built reusable …

In a Lab, a Hunt for a Killer: The Germ Causing a Legionnaires’ Outbreak  The New York Times 2 sickened with Legionnaires’ at Bronx apartment complex; evaluation underway  NBC News NYC health officials probing community cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem  USA Today Construction Worker Sickened in Harlem Legionnaires’ Outbreak Speaks Out: ‘I Want Answers’  People.com Deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem shows …

Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser with the ultrashort X-ray laser flash of the European XFEL. Credit: HZDR / M. Künsting Researchers have completed a groundbreaking experiment at the European XFEL. An international team of scientists, led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), set …

An astronomical society journal has issued its first retraction in its 10-year history — for work done by a NASA researcher and a high school student. The duo set out to confirm an astrophysics law using calculations that assumed the law was true. The journal, Research Notes of the AAS, is published by the American Astronomical Society. It is not …

A picturesque Scottish peninsula immortalized in a hit Paul McCartney song from the 1970s will host a new U.K. rocket development hub as the country works toward its goal of becoming a major player in European space launch. The Mull of Kintyre peninsula in southwestern Scotland once offered refuge to the famous ex-Beatle, who lived there on a farm in …

Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.  On Wednesday, Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the largest gatherings of information …

Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab  Axios Meta names OpenAI’s Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab  CNBC Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab  Reuters Alexandr Wang is now leading Meta’s AI dream team. Will Mark Zuckerberg’s big bet pay off?  Fortune Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief …

Surface-deployed substrates for coral spawning and colonization – credit ReefSeed In the Maldives, a mobile coral spawning system has been trialed with scintillating success, as 10,000 juvenile corals were grown by local operators. It represents not only a major hope that island nations can abate the loss of coral reefs, but also that the spawning system’s $1.5 million grant investment …