Close-up shots of the Sun reveal popcorn-like sunspots
A sight for sore eyes Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed...
Fire experts: Western wildfires are ‘unreal’
Wildfire experts and meteorologists are aghast at the explosion in Western wildfires. Massive, rapidly moving fires have come alive in California, Washington, and Oregon as potent winds fanned flames over...
How freakish weather and fires came alive in the Western U.S.
Over Labor Day weekend, the National Weather Service posted footage of a parade of tumbleweed's vigorously blowing through Idaho. In much of the Western U.S., the weather has been extreme...
Astronomers witnessed the birth of the first intermediate black hole
It’s impolite to ask a black hole its mass The pair of black holes likely spun into each other prior to their collision. Image credit: Northwestern University. One of the...
A COVID-19 newsletter without any doom or gloom
Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hi-diddly-ho corona-rinos, Nobody...
NASA issues new call for lunar payload deliveries from its commercial Moon lander partners – TechCrunch
NASA wants its private commercial space company partners to make more Moon deliveries on its behalf: The agency just issued another request for scientific and experimental payloads that need lunar...
Join us Wednesday, September 9 to watch Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator Demo Day live – TechCrunch
The 2020 class of Techstars’ Starburst Space Accelerator are graduating with an official Demo Day on Wednesday at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET), and you can watch all the...
Space telescopes are great — so why do we still build ground-based ones?
This is a bit warped Just as the Hubble Space Telescope was starting its mission at the beginning of the 1990’s, adaptive optics were developed — a technology that removes much of...
Scientists demonstrate first ‘plug and play’ brain prosthesis in a paralyzed person
Scientists have completed the first-ever demonstration of a “plug and play” brain prosthesis controlled by a paralyzed person. The system uses machine learning to help the individual control a computer interface with just their...
This AI analyzes placentas to predict complications in the next pregnancy
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a machine learning technique that analyzes placenta samples for signs of health risks in future pregnancies. The system aims to assist the...