An American billionaire has completed the first private spacewalk in a bid to venture further than anyone since Nasa’s Apollo Moon missions. Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman launched into space on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the Polaris Dawn mission, along with a pair of SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbirds pilot.
"St. Patrick wasn't even Irish" is absolutely a fact I will be bringing up every St. Patrick's Day from now on.
The new evidence helps astronomers conclusively link two mysteries where there had previously only been hints of a connection.
The doctors have just taken the Earth's "vital signs." And the prognosis is not good. In an annual climate report published in the journal BioScience, an international team of scientists warn that humanity is "on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster," as we fail to stop the worst of the environmental impacts. Right now, […]
Findings may lead to better understanding of how transplanted tissue integrates into body
Dig suggests horseriding Steppe culture originated farther to the east
Nessie hunters searching the loch for the mythical beast say they have made a “significant finding” on its latest cruise.
This changes everything we knew about African “prehistory.”
Storm Surge Three astronauts and one cosmonaut meant to head home this week on a SpaceX shuttle are stuck aboard the International Space Station a little longer thanks to the dangerous megastorm currently brewing in the Atlantic. NASA has announced that the crew for its latest return mission won't be able to leave until at […]
Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are artificial intelligence pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather." As Reuters reports, American scientist John Hopfield is joined in this world-class distinction by British-Canadian AI expert Geoffrey Hinton. Considered the "godfather of AI," Hinton's research in 2012 laid the groundwork […]
French biotech startup Generare has closed a €5 million seed round (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) to step up development of what it touts as a highly scalable approach to identifying promising compounds for drug discovery that already exist in nature. It's focused on sifting for molecules that are produced by microorganisms but could be repurposed as treatments in humans. Such molecules were once a rich source of drug discovery using early chemistry-based discovery techniques.
The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. "It'll be this fuzzy circle with a long tail stretching away from it,” said Sally Brummel, planetarium manager at the Bell Museum in Minnesota. What is a comet? Comets are frozen leftovers from the solar system’s formation billions of years ago.
Blue boulders have been seen on the surface of Mars in a vast crater believed to have been created by an asteroid.
It’s been the stuff of science fiction for decades: to provide gigawatts of cheap, clean power anywhere on Earth, day or night, using satellites that collect and transmit solar energy directly on orbit. “What we're doing at Aetherflux is a different approach of space solar power,” Aetherflux founder Baiju Bhatt said in a recent interview. “As we like to say, it is not your grandpa’s space solar power approach.”
Two researchers whose work has led to the AI revolution won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. A materials physicist explains statistical mechanics, the physics field behind their discoveries.
Scientists in China say they have developed a lightweight, rechargeable battery for Mars exploration that could be powered by the Martian atmosphere while withstanding the planet's extreme temperatures. A state-funded semiconductor lab in China said it has achieved a "milestone" in the development of silicon photonics, which could help the country overcome current technical barriers in chip design and achieve self-sufficiency amid US sanctions. China will overtake the United States in hi-tech and advanced military manufacturing within a decade, according to a prominent Chinese strategist.
As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like. Now, scientists have produced a mug shot after studying fossils of juveniles that were complete and very well preserved, if not quite cute. The giant bug’s topper was a round bulb with two short bell-shaped antennae, two protruding eyes like a crab, and a rather small mouth adapted for grinding leaves and bark, according to new research published Wednesday in Science Advances.
A ”once in a lifetime” comet is expected to light up the night sky as it passes by Earth.
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity. Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto, and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton. “These two gentlemen were really the pioneers,” said Nobel physics committee member Mark Pearce.
A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth. It's the second part of a planetary defence test that could one day help save the planet.
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