Space.comSpaceX rocket snaps amazing views of Earth during Hera asteroid probe launch (photos)The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's Hera asteroid probe.Oct 08, 2024
Scientific AmericanWhat Trump or Harris Would Mean for Health Care Access and AffordabilityBoth Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differOct 08, 2024
Phys.org SpaceRyugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on EarthAn international team of researchers with a wide range of backgrounds has found evidence of asteroids providing the compounds necessary for life to get its start on Earth. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org SpaceA geomagnetic storm has hit Earth—a space scientist explains what causes themA geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky in parts of the U.S. during the first weekend in October. South Africa's National Space Agency (Sansa) told reporters that the storm had originated from a solar flare "that erupted from sunspot 3842...Oct 08, 2024
Scientific AmericanNobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Breakthroughs in Machine LearningThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial intelligenceOct 08, 2024
Phys.org SpaceWebb allows researchers to use new method of finding atmospheres in distant planetsIt is a major goal of astronomical research to find planets other than Earth that might be suitable for sustaining life. There are a number of factors which many scientists agree are essential to a planet being habitable, but an important...Oct 08, 2024
StudyFinds.orgMilton the monster: How did hurricane explode into a Category 5 storm in just one day?Hurricane Milton became one of the most rapidly intensifying storms on record as it went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than a day on a path across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. The post Milton...Oct 08, 2024
StudyFinds.orgGenetic breakthrough suggests viral infections during pregnancy may cause autismWhen a pregnant woman catches a virus, her immune system kicks into high gear to fight off the infection. This immune response can potentially have unintended consequences for the developing fetus. The post Genetic breakthrough suggests...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org SpaceAnti-glitches detected in gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1522-5735By analyzing the data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Russian astronomers have detected anti-glitches in a gamma-ray pulsar designated PSR J1522-5735. The discovery, published September 28 on the pre-print server arXiv, makes...Oct 08, 2024
CosmosScientists behind microRNA discovery awarded Nobel PrizeThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA – class of tiny RNA molecules governing how gene activity is regulated. Ambros, now a professor at the...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.orgGeoffrey Hinton, soft-spoken godfather of AIFor a brief moment in spring last year, the bird-like features of bespectacled British-born researcher Geoffrey Hinton were poking out from TV screens across the world.Oct 08, 2024
CosmosRebellious galaxy found where it shouldn’t beA galaxy very similar to our Milky Way home has been found confounding astronomers with its location and age. About a billion years after the Big Bang, things settled in the universe. It hasn’t changed much since then. But before this...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org BiologyDocumenting the impact of a fungal outbreak on a forest over half a centuryAn entomologist and his ecologist daughter have outlined the dramatic changes that have occurred over the past half-century in the forests of White Oak Canyon in the Shenandoah National Park due to a canker fungus.Oct 08, 2024
NPR ScienceAre hurricanes getting worse? Here’s what you need to knowClimate change hasn't increased the total number of hurricanes hitting the U.S., but it is making dangerous storms more common. (Image credit: Phelan M. Ebenhack)Oct 08, 2024
SciTech DailySquid Collapse Triggers Massive Sperm Whale Migration From the Gulf of CaliforniaResearchers have uncovered a significant migration of sperm whales away from the Gulf of California, correlating with the collapse of their primary food source, the jumbo squid. This shift is attributed to drastic changes in the marine...Oct 08, 2024
SciTech DailyStartling Findings: Common Chemicals Found in Shampoo and Plastic Could Be Quietly Disrupting Your Heart’s RhythmUC study of Fernald data links environmental phenols to heart toxicities Environmental phenols are present in numerous everyday consumer products, serving as preservatives in packaged foods, parabens in shampoos, and bisphenol A (BPA) in...Oct 08, 2024
SciTech DailyHurricane Milton Grounds NASA’s Historic Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter’s MoonNASA and SpaceX have postponed the launch of the Europa Clipper mission due to Hurricane Milton threatening Florida’s Space Coast with high winds and heavy rain. The spacecraft has been secured at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A,...Oct 08, 2024
MIT Technology ReviewThe Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AIThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton,...Oct 08, 2024
MIT Technology ReviewGeoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel PrizeGeoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and ’90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics by the Royal Swedish...Oct 08, 2024
Space.com4 futuristic space technologies — and when they might happenAll four technologies are grounded in reality, but some are more feasible than others.Oct 08, 2024
LivescienceHurricane Milton: Jaw-dropping images taken from space show the storm rapidly intensifying as it approaches FloridaAn image of Hurricane Milton moving towards Florida taken with the GOES satellite at 22:30 UTC on 10/07/24.Oct 08, 2024
Livescience'It will be comparable with the industrial revolution': Two legendary AI scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for work on neural networksThe Nobel Committe for Physics announces John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics.Oct 08, 2024
Ars TechnicaArchaeologists found an ancient Egyptian observatoryA few years ago, Egyptian archaeologists discovered what they thought were the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple dating back to the sixth century BCE. Subsequent finds at the site indicate that the structure was actually an astronomical...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org BiologySperm whale departure linked to decline in jumbo squid population in Gulf of CaliforniaA PeerJ study has revealed a significant departure of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from the central portion of the Gulf of California, is linked to the collapse of the jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) population, their primary prey.Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org EarthResearch suggests Earth's oldest continental crust is disintegratingEarth's continental configurations have changed dramatically over its billions of years' history, transforming not only their positions across the planet, but also their topography as expansion and contraction of the crust made a mark on...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org ScienceTunisian snail remains provide insights on a possible 7700-year-old local food traditionA new study by Dr. Ismail Saafi from the Aix-Marseille Université provides details on the discovery of cooked snail remains at Kef Ezzahi in northern Tunisia. The snail remains, dating back approximately 7710 years, are the only known...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org SpaceSpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission, but delays Europa Clipper because of Hurricane MiltonSpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its way to a pair of asteroids, but SpaceX and NASA have called off plans to launch the Falcon Heavy later this week...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.orgDetecting Planck-scale dark matter by leveraging quantum interferenceWhile various studies have hinted at the existence of dark matter, its nature, composition and underlying physics remain poorly understood.Oct 08, 2024
Yale Environment 360How Traffickers Got Away with the Biggest Rosewood Heist in HistoryTen years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood, the logs have been returned to the traffickers and sit in limbo in a Singapore port. The legal saga highlights the ongoing corruption and gaping holes in...Oct 08, 2024
SciTech DailyBreakthrough Discovery Links Immune System to Parkinson’s ProgressionResearchers have developed a method to recreate the formation of Lewy bodies in human neurons, shedding light on the essential roles of alpha-synuclein and immune responses in their development. This breakthrough offers new insights into...Oct 08, 2024
SciTech DailyTriple Hurricane Havoc: NASA Reveals Unprecedented Atlantic Storm SurgeNASA’s EPIC imager on the DSCOVR satellite captured three hurricanes, Milton, Kirk, and Leslie, simultaneously active over the North Atlantic, a first since records began in 1851. Milton, fueled by record warm Gulf of Mexico waters,...Oct 08, 2024
Science AlertResearchers Shocked at Daily Level of Plasticizers in California's Air"Through the roof."Oct 08, 2024
MashableAstronomers just found a galaxy way too advanced for its timeImagine archaeologists excavating an old cave where they believed they'd see primitive ape-like ancestors and instead found a fossil almost indistinguishable from a modern human. That might be what astronomers felt when they...Oct 08, 2024
MIT Technology ReviewWhy artificial intelligence and clean energy need each otherWe are in the early stages of a geopolitical competition for the future of artificial intelligence. The winners will dominate the global economy in the 21st century. But what’s been too often left out of the conversation is that AI’s huge...Oct 08, 2024
MIT Technology ReviewForget chat. AI that can hear, see and click is already hereThis story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Chatting with an AI chatbot is so 2022. The latest hot AI toys take advantage of multimodal...Oct 08, 2024
Physics WorldRoger Penrose: the Nobel laureate with a preference for transparencies over slideshows As a young physics student, I spent the summer of 2004 toting around Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. It was one of the most challenging popular-science books I had ever come across,...Oct 08, 2024
Physics WorldJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton share the 2024 Nobel Prize for PhysicsJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton share the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning and artificial neural networks”. Hinton is at the University of Toronto and Hopfield...Oct 08, 2024
Chemistry WorldA new gold standard in selective nitrobenzene hydrogenationReaction proceeds through a previously unidentified mechanismOct 08, 2024
Science NewsThe discovery of tools key to machine learning wins the 2024 physics NobelJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used tools from physics to develop data analysis methods that underlie machine learning.Oct 08, 2024
Space.comNASA, SpaceX delay Crew-8 astronauts' homecoming to Oct. 13 due to Hurricane MiltonHurricane Milton has pushed the return to Earth of SpaceX's Crew-8 astronaut mission for NASA to no earlier than Sunday (Oct. 13), a six-day delay at the minimum.Oct 08, 2024
The GuardianNobel prize in physics given to researchers for pioneering work on machine learningJohn Hopfield at Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto honoured for pioneering work on artificial neural networks The Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to two researchers for their groundbreaking work...Oct 08, 2024
LivescienceNASA's exoplanet hunter TESS spots a record-breaking 3-star systemUsing NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, astronomers and citizen scientists have discovered a record-breaking system of three tightly bound stars that could fit between the sun and Mercury.Oct 08, 2024
LivescienceEarth from space: Beautiful 'lake of haze' in Himalayan valley has a darker, more sinister sourceThis 2014 satellite photo shows a cloud of haze sitting in the Kashmir Valley in the Himalayas. The ethereal "lake" consists mainly of smog and other pollutants from nearby factories.Oct 08, 2024
NPR ScienceNobel Prize in physics awarded to 2 scientists for discoveries in machine learningJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. (Image credit: Christine Olsson)Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org BiologyArtificial proteasome offers insights for new trichomoniasis treatmentsResearchers from IOCB Prague are furthering the understanding of how medicines work and what it takes to develop their most effective variants. In one current study, they have focused on the disease caused by the protozoan parasite...Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org EarthSeptember second-warmest on record: EU climate monitorLast month was the second-warmest September ever registered globally in an exceptional year "almost certain" to become the hottest on record, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said on Tuesday.Oct 08, 2024
Phys.orgNobel Prize in physics awarded to 2 scientists for discoveries that enabled machine learningJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton—who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence—were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning and artificial...Oct 08, 2024
NPR ScienceThis mountain hamlet hit by Helene flooding preps for a winter without powerMost of the people who live in Poplar, N.C, are seniors. One priority is securing propane and kerosene heaters to keep them warm when it turns cold. (Image credit: Jessica Tezak for NPR)Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org BiologyAustralia moves to expand Antarctic marine parkAustralia moved Tuesday to protect a swathe of ocean territory by expanding an Antarctic marine park that is home to penguins, seals, whales and the country's only two active volcanos.Oct 08, 2024
Phys.org EarthFrom Bolivia to Indonesia, deforestation continues apaceDeforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday.Oct 08, 2024