Side view of the crater Moltke taken from Apollo 10. Credit: Public Domain Japan’s SLIM space probe entered the moon’s orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country’s…
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Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. A little more than a year ago, Elon…
China approves 105 online games after draft curbs trigger massive losses
People play online games in an internet cafe in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province Friday, March 1, 2019. China’s authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105…
AI pioneer says public discourse on intelligent machines must give ‘proper respect to human agency’
Credit: CC0 Public Domain She’s an important figure behind today’s artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up…
NASA asteroid sampling mission renamed OSIRIS-APEX for new journey
These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded in March 2021 by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.…
The Goldmine of a Neutron Star Collision
International research team models the different signatures of a kilonova explosion simultaneously for the first time. Neutron stars are the end products of massive stars and gather together a large…
Morning sickness doesn’t only occur in the morning. So why do we still call it that?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As many as 90% or more of pregnant people experience some degree of nausea or vomiting, often colloquially referred to as “morning sickness.” For some, it…
What are brain states and brain waves? And can we control them?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There’s no shortage of apps and technology that claim to shift the brain into a “theta” state—said to help with relaxation, inward focus and sleep. But…
Webb Rings in the Holidays With the Ringed Planet Uranus
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on weird and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that orbits on its side. Webb found a dynamic world with rings,…
Innovative X-ray Lobster-Eye Mission Set to Launch
In return for contributing to the development of this mission and the definition of its scientific goals, ESA will get access to 10% of the data generated by Einstein Probe’s…
