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Simple factsWhat it is: Discs that form planets around starsWhere is it: 525 light years away, in the constellation TaurusWhen shared: August 29, 2025This magnificent new image from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocoing inside a giant disc of gas and dust. It is a protoplanetary disc, a ring of dense gas and dust surrounding the young star where the planet is likely to form.The star is IRAS 04302+2247, well known as the “Butterfly Star” because of the way Edge-on View separates bright nebula into two lobes.The star system is a Taurus molecular cloud, approximately 525 light…

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are the closest living relatives of humans. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimpanzees share 98.8% of their DNA.But is this actually true? And what does “similar DNA” mean?The truth is that 98.8% similarity between chimpanzee (pantrogloycetes) and human (homo sapiens) DNA overlooks important differences in species genomes, experts told Live Science.Human and chimpanic DNA is made up of four basic building blocks, or nucleotides: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). David Haussler, director of science at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, said that the genomes of both species…

On Friday, a startup called Fable announced something ambitious. If I turned my head over, I planned to recreate the lost 43-minute Orson Welles classic film, The Magnificent Ambersons. Why are startups charging “AI Netflix” and are talking about a remake of the film, which was first released in 1942, recently attracting money from Amazon’s Alexa funds? Well, the company has built a platform that allows users to create their own comics using AI prompts. Fable starts with its own intellectual property, but has the ambition to offer similar capabilities on Hollywood IP. In fact, it is already being used…

On September 4, 2025, at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questions from many senators about his vaccine policy, including his stance on Covid-19 vaccines and mRNA vaccine technology.Kennedy agreed that President Donald Trump’s signature initiative to produce Covid-19 vaccines in nine months was a tremendous achievement, but he also argued that the Covid-19 vaccine would cause widespread harm, including those in young people.The questions specifically pointed out came from Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. This comes after Kennedy was the doctor who provided the final vote…

The European Commission announced this week that Google is fined 2.95 billion euros (just under $3.5 billion). The committee found that Google violated the European Union’s antitrust rules by supporting its own advertising services. Specifically, the committee said Google “abuses” the “dominant position” by supporting ad exchange ADX on both publisher ad servers and ad purchasing tools. The committee also said Google has 60 days to “end these self-presenting practices” and 60 days to “implement measures to stop the inherent conflict of interest along the Adtech supply chain.” “Google must take serious remedies to address conflicts of interest, or we…

Engineers and policy makers consider the issues defining generations on the Internet. It could be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connections around the world, but it could pose a risk to children when they have full freedom of access. However, there is no easy way to monitor a child’s internet access without monitoring adults. While some supporters praise these laws as a victory over child safety, many security experts warn that these laws have been proposed and passed in a lacking implementation plan. In the US alone, 23 states had enacted age verification laws last month, with two…

Engineers and policy makers consider the issues defining generations on the Internet. It could be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connections around the world, but it could pose a risk to children when they have full freedom of access. However, there is no easy way to monitor a child’s internet access without monitoring adults. While some supporters praise these laws as a victory over child safety, many security experts warn that these laws have been proposed and passed in a lacking implementation plan. In the US alone, 23 states had enacted age verification laws last month, with two…

The threat actors of Russian origin probably stem from a new set of attacks targeting Kazakhstan’s energy sector. The activity, known as the codename for Operation Barrelfire, is tied to a new threat group that Seqrite Labs tracks as a noisy bear. Threat actors have been active since at least April 2025. “The campaign is aimed at Kazumunaigus or KMG employees who have threat entities providing fake documents related to the KMG IT department, mimicking official internal communications, and leveraging themes such as policy updates, internal certification procedures, and pay adjustments. The infection chain begins with a phishing email containing…

Tesla has proposed a massive $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are simply watered-down versions of the promises he spent years on the company. It revealed the proposed pay package, not a photo of Tesla’s board depicting the company’s annual power of attorney. Instead, the board focuses on plans to set up “the most valuable company in history.” Certainly, if Tesla achieves everything it aims in this agreement, it looks like a rather different company at the end of the decade it covers. It does not change the fact…

A huge star that moved soundly through the cliff of extinction about 11 or 300 years ago. The banishment of the outer layer pulsated with energy, causing material to flow into space. It eventually explodes as a supernova, and its remains are one of the most studied supernova remnants (SNRs). This is called Cassiopeia A (CAS A), and new observations on the Chandra X-Ray telescope reveal more details about its end.The progenitor stars in Cas A had solar masses of about 15-20, but some estimates range from 30 solar masses. It could have been a red supertitan, but there is…