Oceans on alien worlds are more common than you think, study reveals
Some like it hot Another quality to look for when searching for worlds with liquid water (and potentially life) is heat — needed to melt ice and drive chemical reactions. This...
Google’s 46-camera ‘light field videos’ let you change perspective and peek around corners – TechCrunch
Google is showing off one of the most impressive efforts yet turning traditional photography and video into something more immersive: 3D video that lets the viewer change their perspective and...
Let’s talk about history, science, and queer people
Welcome to TNW Pride 2020! All throughout June we’ll highlight articles that focus on representation for LGBTQPIA+ people in the STEM communities. According to a survey last year, 54 percent...
Pandemic? What pandemic?
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. Hola totally-not-having-a-pandemic pals,...
Watch musicians play an eerie concert to a theater full of plants
Rows brimmed with a diversity of 2,292 potted plants as musicians took the stage at Spain's ornate Gran Teatre del Liceu on Monday. A string quartet performed the operatic piece...
NASA to establish a system for flying astronauts and researchers on suborbital commercial spacecraft – TechCrunch
NASA is going to chart a path for its astronauts and other personnel to take part in future commercial suborbital spaceflight missions, letting the agency conduct experiments and do research...
A mysterious space signal has been going for over 500 days — and no one knows why
A source of repeating radio waves seen from one point in the sky presents astronomers with numerous mysteries. The source of this signal, where radiation builds and ebbs over a...
The critical science moments of 2020 (so far)
In December 2019, an "unexplained pneumonia" began to sicken people in China. The culprit, a microbial parasite now known as the new coronavirus, would soon flip 2020 upside down. The...
hot birth may have created internal ocean on dwarf planet
Pluto, along with many other dwarf planets in the outer solar system, is often thought of as dark, icy and barren – with a surface temperature of just −230°C. But...
How an AI learned to stitch up patients by studying surgical videos
You probably wouldn’t want a surgeon to stitch you up if they’d learned their craft by studying YouTube videos. But what about a robot? The prospect might not be as fanciful...