On April 13, 2029 (which happens to be Friday the 13th), something unsettling will happen. A decent-sized asteroid, the 1,100-foot-wide Apophis, will pass so close to Earth it'll be visible...
The reports of humanity’s imminent demise at the hands of sentient killer robots have been greatly exaggerated.Based on the current state of artificial intelligence – that is, it’s really good...
The China National Space Agency shared a charming group photo on Friday of its Zhurong rover and accompanying lander on Mars. The pair brought a small camera along for the...
The release of the draft human genome sequence in 2001 was a seismic moment in our understanding of the human genome and paved the way for advances in our understanding of the...
NASA's senior photographer Bill Ingalls didn't think the weather would cooperate. It did. On Thursday morning, Ingalls captured stunning pictures of the partial solar eclipse on the U.S. East Coast...
There’s a hot new conspiracy about COVID-19 vaccinations and, boy, is it magnetic. During a meeting of a state legislature health committee on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny,...
You’ve probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life.They are just as...
is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Big snakes, alligators, giant tortoises, and flying lemurs thrived in a balmy Arctic some 50...
Machine learning models have already mastered Chess, Go, Atari games and more, but in order for it to ascend to the next level, researchers at Facebook intend for AI to take...
Ganymede, a behemoth of an icy moon in Jupiter's orbit, was captured in vivid detail by NASA's Juno spacecraft on June 7. It was the closest flyby of the moon...
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