Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However,…
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Painted Scylla statues found in ancient Laodicea
Excavations in ancient Laodicea have revealed a rare collection of painted Scylla statues. Laodicea was an Ancient Greek city on the river Lycus, located in the present-day Denizli Province, Turkey.…
X-ray imagery of vibrating diamond opens avenues for quantum sensing
Results of mechanical Rabi measurements. Credit: Physical Review Applied (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.024016 The APS’s high-resolution images enabled the team to measure the atoms’ movement near the diamond’s NV centers to…
Playing a game to understand the human microbiome
The picnic food choices affect the microbiome. Credit: ISDS—TU Graz Researchers at TU Graz have published a video game about the health effects of the microbiome and what impact our…
Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s recent announcement on Twitter that “Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year” suggests that robots…
Image: Doomed star Eta Carinae
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Eta Carinae may be about to explode. But no one knows when—it may be next year, it may be 1 million…
Renewable-energy carbon credits rejected by high-integrity scheme
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market decided existing renewables methodologies don’t do enough to prove their emissions reductions are additional Carbon credits generated from renewable energy projects have…
NASA moon probe plays laser tag with Japanese lunar lander
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been playing a very interesting game of hide-and-seek with Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which touched down on the lunar surface on…
Superbugs spread to family members of recently hospitalized patients
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Family members of patients recently discharged from the hospital may have a higher risk of getting an antibiotic-resistant infection, often called a superbug, even if the…
Sony hikes annual net profit forecast after solid Q1
Sony raised its full-year net profit forecast after a solid performance in the first quarter, predicting strong sales in its video game, music and image sensor sectors. Sony raised its…
