Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
Moet je straks in Nederland de gevangenis in als je niet de juiste papieren hebt? Of als je hulp geeft aan ongedocumenteerden?
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Markus Englund wrote copy-paste-detective to scan open science datasets for copy-paste errors. After scanning 600 datasets, the tool found 18 instances of highly improbable preserved sequences.
This work was funded by Astral Codex Ten's grant program. Markus highlights 3 papers with dubious datasets:
This work was funded by Astral Codex Ten's grant program. Markus highlights 3 papers with dubious datasets:
- Gut Microbiota Regulate Motor Deficits and Neuroinflammation in a Model of Parkinson's Disease
- Constraints on the evolution of toxin-resistant Na,K-ATPases have limited dependence on sequence divergence
- Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions
Next up is to scan through the rest of the ~24,000 datasets with Excel files available on Dryad. It will be interesting to see what other treasures we can dig up there! If the 3% error rate holds, we'd expect to see ~700 more cases in that sample alone.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - Drie mannen zijn om het leven gekomen bij een beschieting door het Amerikaanse leger op een drugsboot in het Caribisch gebied. Dat meldt het Amerikaanse Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) op X.
Volgens SOUTHCOM werd de boot bestuurd door een terroristische organisatie. Hij zou over een veelgebruikte route voor drugshandel zijn gevaren.
Sinds september 2025 voeren de Verenigde Staten in opdracht van president Donald Trump dergelijke aanvallen uit. Volgens critici zijn deze aanvallen in internationale wateren in strijd met het internationaal recht.
After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR:
The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical.
During a routine maneuver in late February, Voyager 1's power levels fell unexpectedly, bringing the probe dangerously close to triggering an automatic fault-protection shutdown — a self-preservation response that would have forced engineers into a lengthy and risky recovery process. The team needed to act first. On April 17, mission engineers sent a sequence of commands to deactivate the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, known as the LECP, which is one of Voyager 1's remaining science instruments. The LECP has measured ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from both our solar system and the galaxy beyond it, helping scientists map the structure of interstellar space in a way no other instrument could...
Voyager 1 now carries two operational science instruments: one that listens for plasma waves, and one that measures magnetic fields. Engineers believe the latest shutdown could buy the mission roughly another year of breathing room. The team is also developing a more sweeping power conservation plan they informally call "the Big Bang" — a coordinated swap of several powered components all at once, trading older systems for lower-power alternatives. If testing on Voyager 2, planned for May and June 2026, goes well, the same procedure will be attempted on Voyager 1 no sooner than July. If it works, there is even a slim chance the LECP could once more continue to work.
The engineers say they hope to keep at least one instrument operating on each spacecraft into the 2030s. It would leave both still reporting from places no machine has ever gone before.111
Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, the article points out. (Radio signals take 23 hours to arrive...)
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the article.
The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical.
During a routine maneuver in late February, Voyager 1's power levels fell unexpectedly, bringing the probe dangerously close to triggering an automatic fault-protection shutdown — a self-preservation response that would have forced engineers into a lengthy and risky recovery process. The team needed to act first. On April 17, mission engineers sent a sequence of commands to deactivate the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, known as the LECP, which is one of Voyager 1's remaining science instruments. The LECP has measured ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from both our solar system and the galaxy beyond it, helping scientists map the structure of interstellar space in a way no other instrument could...
Voyager 1 now carries two operational science instruments: one that listens for plasma waves, and one that measures magnetic fields. Engineers believe the latest shutdown could buy the mission roughly another year of breathing room. The team is also developing a more sweeping power conservation plan they informally call "the Big Bang" — a coordinated swap of several powered components all at once, trading older systems for lower-power alternatives. If testing on Voyager 2, planned for May and June 2026, goes well, the same procedure will be attempted on Voyager 1 no sooner than July. If it works, there is even a slim chance the LECP could once more continue to work.
The engineers say they hope to keep at least one instrument operating on each spacecraft into the 2030s. It would leave both still reporting from places no machine has ever gone before.111
Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, the article points out. (Radio signals take 23 hours to arrive...)
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the article.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.