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"At Home in Space" opens, caps Air and Space Museum renovation. "At Home in Space" displays artifacts from the space shuttle-era, as we learned how to go from visiting to living on orbit.

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed. Plus invisible tattoos, medieval skeleton gets an ID, trapping a single antimatter particle, and more.

Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock. The threat is still considered to be low, but the virus continues to quietly spread.

It might not be as high as Pikes Peak, but at an elevation of 7,350 feet (2,240 m) above sea level, the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez provides a unique challenge on the F1 calendar: arstechnica.visitlink.me/F6YDIl

Mainstream consumers may have abandoned the medium decades ago, but the enterprise world never did, and cloud giants rely on tape to back up vast troves of data: arstechnica.visitlink.me/_9-5-E

Google's Legend of Zelda Easter egg transports you back to 1998. The flow of time is always cruel."

Not everyone wants a digital butler waiting for their next command—sometimes you just want information that's relevant to you and your life, displayed in a central place in your home: arstechnica.visitlink.me/mjeaAd

As of late last week, 74 animal cases have been identified in the US since the flies re-invaded the country in June: arstechnica.visitlink.me/9iKR6O

Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don't agree. A big study with very little beyond negative results still gets published.

Apple's roaming home robot may do FaceTime, switch lights on, and yell at your cat. Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.

Left alone, the observatory will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s, closing the book on one of the most famous scientific instruments of the century: arstechnica.visitlink.me/vIz5mk

An ongoing dispute regarding the fate of Tavneos, an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs, highlights the FDA's longstanding struggle to regulate drugs of uncertain efficacy: arstechnica.visitlink.me/-vexUc

Claude's new rules against game cloning won't stop the AI copying boom. The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.

China releases timeline for lunar landing on the Moon, targeting "before 2030". The plan does not include a mission similar to Apollo 8 or Artemis II.

While Boom Supersonic wants to lead "a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight," the company faces turbulence as early backers have questioned its delivery timeline or backed out entirely: arstechnica.visitlink.me/FbTL8j

F1 in Mexico City: We have a new World Champion. There was plenty of drama on and off the track for Formula 1 this weekend.

The provost resigned from the university after an advisory committee found that he failed to disclose his significant AI use in an academic paper and in a recent Washington Post op-ed: arstechnica.visitlink.me/Ot0pvw

The world has a new plan to save nature, but it still needs the money. A new action plan aims to rescue 2030 nature targets as financing remains inadequate.

This $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be. This DIY e-paper display works in two official ecosystems or on your own server.

Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged. A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.

The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It's not so easy.. The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?

Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides. The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.

Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine. Inspector general rejected request from Democratic and Republican senators.

SpaceX seems increasingly disinterested in the US government for most contracts outside of data services, and the implications of this partial "breakup" will be big for NASA: arstechnica.visitlink.me/DNZcJK

Google released its Q3 financial results yesterday, and while the tech giant is still making a huge amount of money, there are several troubling trends emerging specifically pertaining to the company's AI strategy: arstechnica.visitlink.me/H49j7_

Trump declares robot imports a national security threat. President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.

The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs: arstechnica.visitlink.me/18j6im

Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO. Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.

Turning a solar power system into its own backup. Plant design allows it to run on either stored solar heat or combustion.

Whatever you might think of Virgin Galactic, it seems clear that any hopes of expanding the aperture of space tourism in the next decade will be flying beneath its wings: arstechnica.visitlink.me/9b2y-I