If you had to choose a few words or symbols to encapsulate your legacy, what would you pick? Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) left behind a trophy case stocked with mathematical achievements to choose from, but above all, he wanted...
It wasn’t a small step—more a clamber, really—but as billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman climbed partway out of a SpaceX Dragon capsule located nearly 740 kilometers above Earth on early Thursday morning, he made a giant leap into spaceflight history.That’s because...
September 12, 20244 min readScientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon DioxideA research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlashBy Alec LuhnThis February...
As frightening as monsters are, they have always captivated us. From chimeras and hydras to bunyips and golems, creatures have emerged from our imaginations throughout history and across cultures. Today, they explode onto our cinema screens with incredible regularity. Given...
Tel Aviv University before a talk from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in June 2023REUTERS/Amir Cohen SupremacyParmy Olson (Macmillan Business (UK); St Martin’s Press (US)) For most people, ChatGPT appeared to materalise out of thin air. Within weeks of OpenAI’s quiet...
The Perseverance rover is exploring MarsNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted an aurora on Mars that would have been visible to humans. This first sighting of its kind suggests that future astronauts visiting the Red Planet could be in for...
Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon capsule’s hatchSpaceX SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted the first ever civilian spacewalk as part of its Polaris Dawn mission. Two astronauts partially exited a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, one...
There is little good-quality research into smallpox vaccines’ effectiveness against mpoxEmmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images Receiving a single dose of one type of smallpox vaccine seems to lower the risk of catching mpox by around 60 per cent, although this...
In support of the upcoming performance of renowned theatre artist Milo Rau's Antigone in the Amazon at the NYU Skirball Center (27-28 September), the Segal will be screening films of the two previous productions in Rau's myth meets modern-day activism...
When my daughter was young, she washed her hands a lot. We might have poked what we thought was gentle fun at her, saying she was “a little bit OCD”. Later, she began to disclose “bad thoughts”, which I assumed...
