Malik Johnson
Check out the vibrant first photo from PUNCH, a NASA mission that is hitting the ground running with some neat shots of the Sun. PUNCHshort for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliospherelau… [+2726 chars]
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth since 1998, housing groups of astronauts in the microgravity environment around 250 miles above the surface of the planet. All of that ti… [+3162 chars]
Few forms of media can still grab the general public’s lapels and say, “The world has changed in an important way, and you should know about it, now” like a push notification from The New York Times.… [+6759 chars]
In 1934, David Hilbert, by then a grand old man of German mathematics, was dining with Bernhard Rust, the Nazi minister of education. Rust asked, How is mathematics at Göttingen, now that it is free … [+10989 chars]
Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.”Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question. We’d get the answer instantly by turning to AI tools such as Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Siri. Offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence has become second nature, but with mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining, some experts fear this impulse is driving the trend. Continue reading...
When is a crystal not a crystal? When it’s a quasi-crystal, a paradoxical form of metal recently found in some 3D printed metal alloys by [A.D. Iams et al] at the American National Institute for Stan… [+2351 chars]
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday invited international scientists to work in France or elsewhere in Europe. The country's newly launched "Choose France for Science" platform comes as US President Donald Trump slashes funding for universities and research centres in the US.
Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (19341996) continued doing what he did all along popularizing science and enthusiastically conveying the wonders of the universe to millions of … [+3328 chars]
Canadarm2, the robotic arm on the ISS built by the Canadian Space Agency ESA/NASA The most accurate clock in space launches within days and will begin building a highly synchronised network out of … [+3480 chars]
Jonah FisherBBC environment correspondent The ocean absorbs about a quarter of the CO2 that is emitted into the atmosphere. A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started oper… [+6212 chars]
AI trawling the internet’s vast repository of journal articles has reproduced an error that’s made its way into dozens of research papersand now a team of researchers has found the source of the issu… [+4362 chars]
NASA’s lease for its headquarters building expires in 2028, and the agency is searching for a new space to house its workforce. As the agency explores options in Washington or the surrounding area, a… [+2875 chars]
Look alive: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have picked up signs of a potential biosignature on a steamy, ocean-covered exoplanet called K2-18ba biosignature that, on Earth, is produced by … [+4963 chars]
Our homes are a significant source of carbon emissions that are warming the planet, and sometimes it feels like we don't know how to fix it. Residential and commercial buildings account for 13% of … [+5831 chars]
YANTAI, Chine, 18 avril 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Les pressions environnementales croissantes, qu'il s'agisse de la disparition des habitats, du changement climatique ou du braconnage, expliquent la nécessité de trouver des solutions de haute technologie pour protéger la faune et la flore....
YANTAI, China, 18. April 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Der zunehmende Druck auf die Umwelt, von verschwindenden Lebensräumen über den Klimawandel bis hin zur Wilderei, erhöht den Bedarf an hochmodernen Lösungen zum Schutz der Tierwelt. Da die Wälder schrumpfen, dringen Tiere zunehmend in...
