Famed NYC clock is counting down to Earth’s climate change ‘deadline’
Anyone who has walked through New York City's Union Square and managed to look up has seen it: A large, multi-numeral digital clock embedded on the side of a sky...
Hurricane Laura’s impact lingered with nightmarish mosquito swarms
After Hurricane Laura hit land in the southern United States in late August and devastated the Louisiana coast, the storm surges and rainfall it brought along flooded the region. That...
MIT engineers develop a totally flat fisheye lens that could make wide-angle cameras easier to produce – TechCrunch
Engineers at MIT, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, have devised a way to build a camera lens that avoids the typical spherical curve of ultra-wide-angle glass,...
Hurricane Teddy’s eye looks like a giant stadium
Storm investigators flew through Hurricane Teddy on Thursday, capturing impressive imagery of the cyclone's stadium-like eye. A big, clear eye is indicative of a powerful hurricane (on Friday morning, Teddy...
NASA to test precision automated landing system designed for the Moon and Mars on upcoming Blue Origin mission – TechCrunch
NASA is going to be testing out a new precision landing system designed for use on the tough terrain of the Moon and Mars for the first time during an...
Quantum and classical computers handle time differently. What does that mean for AI?
As humans, we take time for granted. We’re born into an innate understanding of the passage of events because it’s essential to our survival. But AI suffers from no such...
Contestants will compete for a SpaceX trip to the International Space Station in new reality TV show – TechCrunch
There’s a reality TV competition show in the works that will feature a 2023 trip to the International Space Station as the grand prize, Deadline reports. The production company behind...
‘Digital biology is an incredible place to be right now’ – TechCrunch
Working at the intersection of biology and computing may be the most exciting new spot for technologists at the moment. That’s the word from Daphne Koller, the founder and chief...
Intense videos show Hurricane Sally hit the Gulf Coast hard
Hurricane Sally — one of a record number of storms that have formed so far in the Atlantic this year — is pummeling parts of the Gulf Coast. After intensifying...
Two droplets coalesced in a microscopic video. The impact could be huge for the future of sustainable living.
Kazi Fazle Rabbi and Dr. Xiao Yan are researchers in the Energy Transport Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as this year's winners of the...