NASA plans rescheduled Mars Ingenuity helicopter flight for April 19
It's almost time for the Ingenuity to take flight. Hopefully for real this time! The Mars helicopter will take its inaugural journey into the skies above Mars "no earlier than...
Hubble captures a massive black hole blazing trails across the cosmos
The focus of this new image share from NASA — a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012 — is Hercules A. The distant galaxy, also known as...
Watch first-ever camera collar footage from Voyageurs Park wolf
The mission of the Voyageurs Wolf Project is to better understand the behavior of wolves in Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park. By attaching a camera collar from Vectronic-Aerospace to one of...
Why the spectacular Muldrow Glacier is surging in Alaska
Alaska's mighty Muldrow Glacier is moving 50 to 100 times faster than normal. It's a major surge. Large parts of the 39-mile-long "river of ice" are progressing some 30 to...
How a theoretical mouse could crack the stock market
A team of physicists at Emory University recently published research indicating they’d successfully managed to reduce a mouse’s brain activity to a simple predictive model. This could be a breakthrough...
Why it’s wise to wait two weeks after your shot
The FDA-authorized Covid vaccines are, in some ways, like Spiderman. "When Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider, he's not able to climb walls right away," said Dr. Vince...
Even NASA’s helicopter on Mars has to wait for software updates
You know when you tap an app on your phone and instead of opening, it starts downloading an update? That's kind of what's happening with NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity....
60 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space
On April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin sat alone in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, hoping to become the first person to travel into space. "Poyekhali!" Gagarin said as liftoff began,...
Did we just discover new physics? These theoretical physicists don’t think so
When the results of an experiment don’t match predictions made by the best theory of the day, something is off.Fifteen years ago, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered something perplexing....
Can AI be hypnotized?
It’s no longer considered science fiction fodder to imagine a human-level machine intelligence in our lifetimes. Year after year we see the status quo in AI research shattered as yesterday’s...