The Fat Bear Week 2020 contenders are here
Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2020! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds....
Physicist says you can time travel all you want, but the universe won’t let you change things
A physics student at the University of Queensland recently published a paper indicating they’d ‘squared’ the math when it comes to time-travel. Not only should it theoretically be possible to...
The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie — literally
Over a year ago, a group of researchers made a revolutionary breakthrough when they successfully captured the first-ever image of a celestial phenomenon — a black hole. Well, that historic...
Big questions about raging Western U.S. wildfires, answered
The great blazes burning the West are like colossal campfires. What do you need to start a campfire? You need to burn some kindling. "The more kindling you have, the...
Curly the curling robot throws stones like a pro – TechCrunch
Robots have shown themselves to excel at any number of sports and activities, though they do best when they have a single task. Fortunately some sports, such as curling, consist...
Blue Origin job listing sheds more light on its space-based orbital habitat ambitions – TechCrunch
Blue Origin founder and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made no secret of his ambition to eventually create orbiting space stations that act as places for people to live and...
CMU’s MoonRanger robot rover will be the first to search for water ice on the Moon in 2022 – TechCrunch
Carnegie Mellon University and spinoff space startup Astrobotic are developing a robotic rover to look for water on the Moon, and the little bot just passed the crucial preliminary design...
WellSaid Labs research takes synthetic speech from seconds-long clips to hours – TechCrunch
Millions of homes have voice-enabled devices, but when was the last time you heard a piece of synthesized speech longer than a handful of seconds? WellSaid Labs has pushed the...
Zombie storm Paulette, a past hurricane, reforms in the Atlantic ocean
The former hurricane, Paulette, essentially died last week, on Sept. 16. But Paulette has risen again, in the form of a tropical storm (meaning an organized storm with wind speeds...
Microsoft launches Premonition, its hardware and software platform for detecting biological threats – TechCrunch
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that Premonition, a robotics and sensor platform for monitoring and sampling disease carriers like mosquitos and a cloud-based software stack for analyzing samples,...