Which is better in a latte?
Like millions of us, I've had a lifelong love affair with the creamy deliciousness that is cow's milk. (Whole milk, please, none of your pointless low-fat nonsense.) It's Saturday cartoons...
New discoveries in neuroscience show what’s right and wrong with AI
Two separate studies, one by UK-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind and the other by researchers in Germany and Greece, display the fascinating relations between AI and neuroscience. As most scientists...
Saying Trump and Sanders both reject climate reality is really foolish
So far in short-lived 2020, Antarctic scientists measured warm waters eating away at the planet's most threatening glacier, Earth experienced its warmest January in over 140 years of record-keeping, and...
How to build a Starship – TechCrunch
Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. Busy week for SpaceX — across funding, space...
Karius raises $165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases with a blood draw – TechCrunch
“What Karius is good at is identifying those novel microbes before they become an outbreak like coronavirus,” says Mickey Kertesz, a chief executive whose life sciences startup just hauled in...
Scientists discovered a new way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Since their discovery in 1928, antibiotics have become a common way of treating infections caused by bacteria, fungi, and other microbes. To treat an infection, a doctor usually prescribes a...
Why the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft looks like a snowman
Just over a year ago, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons mission, we were treated to images of 2014MU69, a small object 6.6 billion kilometers from the sun – making it...
Here’s NASA’s new idea to get its stubborn Martian drill to work
Well over a year after NASA's InSight lander parachuted down to the Martian surface, the space agency still hasn't been able to drill too far into the red soil. NASA...
Sensors are the next big thing in space, not starships – TechCrunch
Understanding the opportunities available in the space industry — especially for early-stage companies and new founders — isn’t easy. The pool of people who have deep aerospace technical expertise isn’t...
Watch an earthquake startle a swarm of deep sea creatures
The deep sea is intense. Earlier in 2020, a robotic ocean explorer launched by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution captured a wild event along a mountainous ridge in the Caribbean...