It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite
These actions followed pre-established protocols. However, it highlighted the small but non-zero risk of rocket debris…
To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
The third neural net was relatively simple and processed language using vectorized representations of those “move…
16 Top Python Hacks for Data Scientists to Improve Productivity
As a data scientist, you likely spend a lot of your time writing Python code, which…
Even as the tide turned for fur, crocodile leather kept selling in high-end fashion. But for how much longer?
Dotted across northern Australia are 21 saltwater crocodile farms, home to around 130,000 crocodiles. Their skins…
CrowdStrike Researchers Explore Contrastive Learning to Enhance Detection Against Emerging Malware Threats
CrowdStrike research shows that contrastive learning improves supervised machine learning results for PE (Portable Executable) malware…
‘A mini climate-control system’: the tech behind sportswear at the Australian Open
When a tennis player serves at 200km/h in 30°C heat, their clothing isn’t just fabric. It…
Earth is bombarded with rocks from space – but who gets to keep these ultimate antiques?
Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the…
Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time…
Despite fears of falling trust in expert knowledge, a global survey shows New Zealanders value science highly
Five years since the start of the COVID pandemic, it can feel as if trust in…
Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste
“When we used the flow fiber photometry method to look into the brains of mice, we…
Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants?
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate,…
A solid electrolyte gives lithium-sulfur batteries ludicrous endurance
The iodine turned out to be a critical component. While the exchange of electrons with sulfur…
Why is one half of Mars so different to the other? ‘Marsquakes’ may have just revealed the answer
Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy,…
Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science missions for SpaceX, said it made sense to pair the…
There was a straight shot from Earth to the Moon and Mars last night
The most recent lunar occultation of Mars that was visible from the United States occurred on…
Amazon must solve hallucination problem before launching AI-enabled Alexa
“[T]he most challenging thing about AI agents is making sure they’re safe, reliable, and predictable,” Anthropic’s…
A deadly brain-eating amoeba lurks in freshwater swimming holes – here’s what you need to know
On hot summer days, hitting the beach is a great way to have fun and cool…
Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations
A backstop That said, the team behind the analysis argues that, depending on other factors, the…
New research reveals why sabre-toothed predators evolved their deadly teeth
Sabre teeth – the long, sharp, blade-like canines found in extinct predators such as Smilodon –…
As US marks first H5N1 bird flu death, WHO and CDC say risk remains low
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as…
2025 will see huge advances in quantum computing. So what is a quantum chip and how does it work?
In recent years, the field of quantum computing has been experiencing fast growth, with technological advances…
LIVE: Biden Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, Michael J. Fox and Others
LIVE: Biden Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, Michael J. Fox and Others US…
Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the “sorcery” of technology
We might expect someone like Dylan, immersed as he has always been in folk songs, old…
One less thing to worry about in 2025: Yellowstone probably won’t go boom
Underneath Yellowstone: Two large lobs of hot material from the mantle (in yellow) melt rock closer…