What salt water means for wild horses

Shackleford Banks is an 8-mile-long barrier island off the coast of North Carolina made up of sandy beaches, salt marshes, and maritime forests. There are no vacation rentals, boardwalks, or seafood restaurants serving the residents of Shackleford Banks. That’s because the residents are more than 100 wild horses who call the sand dunes of this…

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AI just helped scientists simulate every star in the Milky Way: all 100 billion of them

Front (left) and side (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of the gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model. Credit: RIKEN Astrophysicists have always dreamed of making a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every star—every orbit, flare, and explosion—without taking shortcuts….

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Not everything that is gold shines

By the end of this week, federal agencies will have submitted their plans to the White House outlining the implementation of the Administration’s executive order on “Gold standard science.” The order and accompaniment. guide memorandum have been met with legitimate outrage and grave concern throughout our Earth and space sciences community. I am encouraged to…

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