Space photos of the week, December 6–12.
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Space Photos of the Week: We’ve Got Collisions Aplenty
Machine Learning Works Great—Mathematicians Just Don’t Know Why
Our current mathematical understanding of many techniques that are central to the ongoing big-data revolution is inadequate, at best.
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What’s Inside E-Cigarette Juice: Alcohol, More Alcohol, and Lots of Secrets
Are e-cigs safer than cigarettes? Maybe. E-cig juices and devices remain unregulated in the US, so the health effects remain foggy.
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If the Paris Climate Talks End in an Agreement, Thank the French
In what is perhaps the final draft before the official Paris climate agreement, the points of contention are down, but key disagreements remain.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Sexy Saga of the Harlequin Beetle and the Pseudoscorpion
Welcome to Harlequin Beetle Airlines, where the skies aren’t so much friendly as they are sexually awkward.
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New Horizons’ Sharpest Photos of Pluto, Now in Color
Last week, NASA released the highest res photos of Pluto that New Horizons can get. This week, it's done it again—but in color.
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Senate Republicans Ran a Really Weird Hearing on Climate Change
What if they held a hearing in Congress on climate change and nobody who knew anything about it came?
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Small Islands Could Deploy Lasers to Weather Climate Change
Some of the biggest fights at COP 21 are over who pays for climate change. Caught in the middle are tiny nations like Comoros.
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Beautiful NASA Visualization Predicts Space Weather Around Pluto
The NASA models that predict space weather out to Pluto are highly uncertain, but at least they're pretty.
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Republicans Are Trying to Sneak an E-Cigarette Exemption Past the FDA
An obscure provision could exempt current e-cigarettes from a lot of regulation forever, all by going around the Food and Drug Administration.
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