https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVliXLEEtag A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger aircraft with less drag, reducing fuel consumption. Tail...
CLIMATEWIRE | Climate change increased the maximum wind speeds of every Atlantic hurricane that formed this year, scientists have found. All 11 storms intensified between 9 and 28 miles per hour under the influence of warmer-than-average ocean temperatures.The extra juice...
It hasn’t been a good year for people who care about climate change. A hoped-for peak in carbon emissions has failed to emerge, meaning we continue to warm the planet at an accelerating rate (see “Humanity has warmed the planet...
Humidity makes Shanghai’s heat more unbearablelukyeee1976/Getty Images “My office felt like a steamer on Monday morning,” wrote Chinese influencer Bi Dao in a social media post in August. He fetched a drink from a supposed cold-water dispenser – it was...
Quantum bits, or qubits, can be thought of as representing data on a sphereGoogle DeepMind Google DeepMind has developed an AI model that could improve the performance of quantum computers by correcting errors more effectively than any existing method, bringing...
An artist’s impression of IBM’s Eagle quantum processing unitIBM IBM has made a significant advance on the road to larger and more powerful quantum computers by linking two such devices together and performing calculations beyond the capabilities of either alone....
An artist’s depiction of a system showing its host star, transiting planet and misaligned protoplanetary discNASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) A world seen orbiting a 3-million-year-old star about 520 light years from Earth is one of the youngest known planets,...
Can AI replicate individual humans?gremlin/Getty Images An experiment simulating more than 1000 real people using the artificial intelligence model behind ChatGPT has successfully replicated their unique thoughts and personalities with high accuracy, sparking concerns about the ethics of mimicking individuals...
The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt.SpaceX's 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship megarocket lifted off for the sixth time ever today (Nov. 19), rising off the orbital launch mount at the company's...
November 20, 20244 min readHealth Research Could Face Severe Cuts and Changes Under TrumpSweeping reorganization and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the U.S. National Institutes of HealthBy Max Kozlov & Nature magazineThe U.S. National Institutes of Health,...
