A replica of the Welcome Stranger, a gold nugget weighing almost 100 kilograms found in Australia in 1869Ian Dagnall/Alamy Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced...
September 2, 20244 min readEarthquakes May Forge Large Gold NuggetsScientists propose that large chunks of gold could form from earthquakes’ pressureBy Kate Graham-ShawA gold nugget “trapped” in quartz Pierre Longnus/Getty ImagesSolid gold bars stacked in bank vaults, layers of plating...
Boeing’s Starliner capsule carried astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space StationNASA/Johnson Space Center UPDATE: In a statement sent to Jeff Foust at Space News, NASA said the sound has stopped, and gave an explanation. “The feedback...
Some of the science fiction out in September 2024 There is a smorgasbord of new science fiction on offer in September, whether you are after high-end literary writing from the likes of Booker-longlisted Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers or universe-spanning...
Alzheimer’s is, quite rightly, among the most dreaded conditions of old age. It robs people of memories, puts immense strain on their carers and exerts a huge financial burden on both individuals and society. Tens of millions of people already...
September 2, 20242 min readScientists Make ‘Cyborg Worms’ with a Brain Guided by AIAI and tiny worms team up to get to treatsBy Matthew Hutson Scientists have given artificial intelligence a direct line into the nervous systems of millimeter-long worms,...
“One of my colleagues has pointed out that I laugh a lot, even when no one’s joking,” a reader writes. “I’d never really noticed this before, but his comments have made me worry that my laughter is damaging my credibility...
The action in Creation Lake is based in Guyenne in south-west FrancePhotononstop/Alamy Creation LakeRachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape (UK, 5 September); Scribner (US, 3 September)) Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner is a thriller, a spy caper, a comedy and also a...
Many AI-generated images look realistic until you take a closer lookMidJourney Did you notice that the image above was created by artificial intelligence? It can be difficult to spot AI-generated images, video, audio and text at a time when technological...
A scene from an AI-generated facsimile of the computer game Doomid software An AI-generated recreation of the classic computer game Doom can be played normally despite having no computer code or graphics. Researchers behind the project say similar AI models...
