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Good space battles can take many forms. They can be oversized, noisy fleet fights involving hundreds of ships or quiet and cerebral tests of wills between two solitary commanders. No matter the scale, great space combat always combines high stakes, clearly explained tactics and superior special effects.

This is the ultimate ranking of the best starship space battles in science fiction movies and television.

🔑 Space Battle Rankings:
1. Battlestar Galactica.
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
3. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
4. Babylon 5
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
6. The Orville.

🚀 All Great Battlestar Galactica Battles → ‱ The 4 Most Explosive Space Battles Ev


🚀 All Great Babylon 5 Battles → ‱ 4 Of Sci-Fi’s Most Explosive Battles


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Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported.

If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, including Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, which OpenAI backed from its OpenAI Startup Fund.

The acquisition could jeopardize the credibility of the OpenAI Startup Fund, given that it is one of Cursor’s biggest investors, said a person familiar with Cursor’s cap table. It’s not clear whether OpenAI approached Cursor about an acquisition.

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Billions of heat exchangers are in use around the world. These devices, whose purpose is to transfer heat between fluids, are ubiquitous across many commonplace applications: they appear in HVAC systems, refrigerators, cars, ships, aircraft, wastewater treatment facilities, cell phones, data centers, and petroleum refining operations, among many other settings.

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Both the injectable and oral forms of semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, have recently gained attention for their effectiveness in managing weight gain, high blood sugar, and even reducing alcohol cravings.

A new clinical trial, co-led by endocrinologist and diabetes specialist John Buse, MD, PhD, and interventional cardiologist Matthew Cavender, MD, MPH, at the UNC School of Medicine, has demonstrated that the oral form of semaglutide significantly lowers the risk of cardiovascular events in individuals with type 2 diabetes, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) encompasses a range of disorders affecting the heart and blood vessels, including coronary artery disease, heart attack, stroke, and hypertension. These conditions are primarily driven by atherosclerosis, a process where plaque builds up in the arterial walls, leading to narrowed or blocked arteries. Risk factors include smoking, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, obesity, and genetic predisposition. CVD remains a leading cause of global mortality, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle changes, medical interventions, and preventive measures in managing and reducing the risk of heart-related illnesses.

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A new discovery could pave the way for more effective cancer treatment by helping certain drugs work better inside the body. Scientists at Duke University School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and University of Arkansas have found a way to improve the uptake of a promising class of cancer-fighting drugs called PROTACs, which have struggled to enter cells due to their large size.

The new method works by taking advantage of a protein called CD36 that helps pull substances into cells. By designing drugs to use this CD36 pathway, researchers delivered 7.7 to 22.3 times more of the drug inside , making the treatment up to 23 times more potent than before, according to the study published April 17 in Cell.

Data from mouse studies shows this enhanced uptake led to stronger tumor suppression without making the drugs harder to dissolve or less stable.

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Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute to the transient process of human conscious perception


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A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in the metallic compound Ti4MnBi2, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical.

The study, published in Nature Materials, comes at a time of growing global interest in that redefine the boundaries between magnetism, conductivity, and quantum coherence.

“We proved the existence of a new class of quantum materials that are both metallic and one-dimensional magnets, with strong coupling between the and their metallic host,” said UBC Blusson QMI Investigator Prof. Meigan Aronson.

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Google on Monday announced plans that might help a scientific breakthrough in research into the communication patterns of dolphins. The tech giant announced that it would make DolphinGemma, its foundational AI model, accessible to researchers over the summer.

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