An artist’s impression of a rover exploring the surface of MarsMARK GARLICK/Science Photo Library/Alamy The Secret Life of the UniverseNathalie Cabrol (Simon & Schuster (UK); Scribner (US)) David Bowie wasn’t the first or last to wonder if there is life on Mars. The...
Experiments in a wind tunnel have revealed why the sling action bowling technique made famous by Sri Lankan cricketer Lasith Malinga is so effective at hoodwinking whoever is batting Source link...
AI companies hope that feeding ever more data to their models will continue to boost performance, eventually leading to human-level intelligence. Behind this hope is the "transformer", a key breakthrough in AI, but what happens if it fails to deliver?...
Sometimes your gut feelings lead you astray—particularly in mathematics, in which one constantly comes across results that seem impossible. For example, infinity does not always equal infinity, and tortoises may outpace human athletes—at least from a certain mathematical point of...
Some people in a coma seem to be able to imagine themselves swimming or walkingKENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images One in five people in a coma may be “locked in”, meaning they are aware of their surroundings but unable to...
August 14, 20243 min readStunning Space Station Video Shows Glimmering Northern Lights from AboveCoronal mass ejections from the sun sparked dazzling auroras that were visible from the ground and from spaceBy Saima S. IqbalNASA astronaut Matthew Dominick took this photo...
Ocean temperatures have been rising steadily for decades, with our seas having absorbed much of the excess atmospheric heat generated by our relentless burning of fossil fuels. But in March 2023, almost overnight, they suddenly skyrocketed. Temperatures have since remained...
August 14, 20243 min readCleaned Up Shipping Emissions Have Revealed Additional Global WarmingNew shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s climateBy Chelsea Harvey & E&E NewsCargo ships...
Cockroaches are a common pestLELACHANOK/Shutterstock People buying insecticide sprays to battle cockroaches are wasting their money as the insects have grown resistant to a key ingredient, sparking a call for US regulators to toughen up product testing rules. About 30...
The South American lungfish probably has a lot of “junk” DNAKatherine Seghers/Louisiana State University There is a new record for the largest genome to be sequenced, set at a massive 90 billion letters of DNA. It belongs to the South...
