Hear the hum of NASA’s Mars helicopter as it takes off
The whirring sound of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter taking flight on Mars was shared by the space agency on Friday. Amid the gusts and gales sweeping across Jezero Crater, the buzzing...
Endangered California condors invade a woman’s home
Around 15 California condors — one of the largest flying birds left on Earth — recently conquered a Southern California woman's porch. The imposing, though very endangered, birds knocked over...
Huge 9.8 inch, 1oz Giant Wood Moth found in Australian school
Mothra is real, and she is Australian. Construction workers at an Australian primary school (i.e. elementary school) found a huge bug this week, and have been proudly showing it off...
Researchers say this combo of old-school invisible ink and AI is ‘uncrackable’
A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a system by which invisible ink and a basic cipher can be combined with relatively simple...
Otherworldly deep sea life captured during an ocean expedition
Deep-dwelling ocean life is stunning. And biologists keep finding more. During a recently completed 18-day expedition in the protected Ashmore Reef Marine Park (off of Australia), scientists aboard a Schmidt...
Carnegie Mellon researchers trained AI to simulate our universe on a GPU
Simulating the universe is difficult. There are, after all, potentially infinite variables to consider.Scientists typically use supercomputers to crunch data at the cosmological level, but a team of researchers from...
5 big COVID vaccine myths, debunked
Elvis got publicly vaccinated for polio in 1956, inspiring many Americans to protect themselves against the viral scourge. Today, the crippling disease no longer exists in the U.S. What will...
Cognixion’s brain-monitoring headset enables fluid communication for people with severe disabilities – TechCrunch
Of the many frustrations of having a severe motor impairment, the difficulty of communicating must surely be among the worst. The tech world has not offered much succor to those...
How politicians manipulate the masses with simple AI
We’re three and a half years away from electing another president here in the US, but it’s never to early too prepare ourselves for the impending crapshow that is US...
Massive stellar flare from our closest star is a bad sign for aliens
The Sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare ever measured from Proxima Centauri...