A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off Wednesday for an express trip to the International Space Station. The space capsule atop a towering rocket set off at 1623GMT from Russia’s manned space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and was scheduled to dock with the space station three hours later, in contrast to some missions that last for days.
The new evidence helps astronomers conclusively link two mysteries where there had previously only been hints of a connection.
Great Ball of Fire Jupiter's Giant Red Spot (GRS) is large enough to swallow Earth — and as new imagery from Hubble suggests, it's a lot weirder than previously thought. Between December 2023 and March 2024, the Hubble Space Telescope took a closer look at the massive and mysterious "anticyclone" that has long fascinated astronomers […]
“This opens up a whole new set of possibilities for discoveries.”
Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are artificial intelligence pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather." As Reuters reports, American scientist John Hopfield is joined in this world-class distinction by British-Canadian AI expert Geoffrey Hinton. Considered the "godfather of AI," Hinton's research in 2012 laid the groundwork […]
Eyes to the sky! More aurora displays may be on the way following a powerful solar flare and the eruption of an exceptionally fast solar storm.
Scientists now know what the head of the biggest bug to ever crawl the Earth looks like. Most fossils of the extinct creatures, which grew to nearly 9 feet long and more than 100 pounds, have no heads. But analyzing complete fossils of juveniles allowed researchers to develop a model of the giant arthropod might have looked like 300 million years ago.
A US-sanctioned Chinese company is upgrading its production line of superconducting quantum computers - the first in the country - after finding initial success with a self-developed chip, a move that state media said can elevate the nation's ability to independently manufacture those cutting-edge machines. Origin Quantum - a research firm based in Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui province - has kept its 72-qubit quantum computing chip running in "stable operation" on its Origin Wukong supercondu
A "severe" solar storm could make the northern lights visible in the U.S. farther south than usual while also posing the potential to disrupt modern technology, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) -- a powerful burst of magnetized plasma from the sun's corona -- erupted from the sun on Tuesday night, prompting NOAA's Space Prediction Center to issue a rare G4 geomagnetic storm watch, indicating "detrimental impacts" to critical technology and possible widespread voltage control problems, according to NOAA. The CME is expected to cause a moderate solar storm here on Earth on Thursday and Friday, according to NOAA.
If dark energy isn’t constant, we may need to rewrite the standard model of cosmology.
Study on mice suggests fasting my help some live longer but not everyone would benefit from reduced calorie intake.
Get ready to feel cosmically insignificant.
"What a spectacular way to send off one of their own."
During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic proportions. One notable example was Arthropleura, the biggest bug ever known at up to 10-1/2 feet (3.2 meters) long, inhabiting what is now North America and Europe. While its fossils have been known since 1854, a large gap has existed in the understanding of this creature because none of the remains had a well-preserved head.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development. Half the prize was awarded to Baker "for computational protein design" while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper "for protein structure prediction", said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which makes the award. Baker, 62, is a professor at the University of Washington, in Seattle, while Hassabis, 48, is CEO of Google DeepMind, the AI research subsidiary of Google, where Jumper, 39, also works as senior research scientist.
The find helps fill in missing pieces of the puzzle that is the origin of Scythian culture
NEW YORK (AP) — Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet.
Geoffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who helped lay down the foundation for artificial intelligence, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. He shares the award with John Hopfield of Princeton University. Eric Sorensen reports on Hinton's achievements that enabled machine learning, and warnings about the dangers of A.I.
Finally, we beat grave robbers to the punch
For fusion power aficionados, hitting “breakeven” is something of a Holy Grail: the point at which a fusion reaction produces more power than was required to ignite it. Only one scientific experiment, at the National Ignition Facility, has accomplished that feat, and it took over a decade of tweaking the system to achieve the monumental result. It was meant to probe the limits of physics, not sell power to the grid.
NASA JPL's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter's icy ocean moon.
