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Mysterious rings around Uranus point to hidden moons orbiting the ice giant

New observations of Uranus’s enigmatic outer rings have shown them to be even more mysterious than astronomers had thought, and their unusual properties hint at some puzzling things going on with the planet’s system of moons. These observations suggest that small, mysterious moons with surprisingly different natures are the source of the particles that make up the two outermost rings…
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AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter.

AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins – the molecules that drive virtually every process in living cells.But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for potential treatments, there’s an emerging bottleneck: actually characterizing all those candidates in practice, for testing…
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I know AI in my editing software uses water, but have no idea how much. This Earth Day, I call on companies to be more transparent

Today is Earth Day, and the thing that’s on my mind is how much water the AI-powered features in my photo editing software use. In fact, this has been on my mind for some time as, earlier in the year, the UN announced that we have entered an “era of water bankruptcy,” which got me thinking about how, especially as a landscape photographer, my photographic passions affect our home planet. I…
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Toyota's 3-row electric SUV is gaining a luxury Lexus sibling: Here's our first look

Toyota’s Lexus brand was caught testing a three-row electric SUV for the first time, expected to arrive as a higher-end sibling to the Highlander EV. Is Lexus launching a three-row electric SUV? After revealing the long-awaited Highlander BEV in February, Lexus is now preparing to introduce its three-row electric SUV. The electric Lexus TZ was spotted testing in Europe for the first time ahead…
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