It's your human hubris holding back AI acceptance
Boffins find Dunning-Kruger effect makes us think we know better
AI + ML03 Feb 2023 | 43
Science
Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding
'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates
Science02 Feb 2023 | 23
Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET
Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds
AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 13
You there, boffins and tech giants, take this $50m and figure out better chips
Yes, the Chinese will never think of doing something like this, muhaha
Systems27 Jan 2023 | 20
AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule
Work isn't original if it was taken from a plagiarism engine like ChatGPT
Science27 Jan 2023 | 38
Scientists conclude cats only have three personalities after YouTube clip binge
Insight could lead to better conflict resolution between our feline overlords
Bootnotes27 Jan 2023 | 90
NARROWER TOPICS
Space mining startup prepping to launch 'demo' refinery... this April
Last (failed) attempts at such an endeavor happened a decade ago, but AstroForge thinks it can do better
Science26 Jan 2023 | 39
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam
Updated Looks like a reboot of SWIV
Science26 Jan 2023 | 108
8K? That’s cute. This display has 600 million pixels
My god, it's full of TVs
Systems24 Jan 2023 | 36
If we have self-healing bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs
Updated Light-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time
Science21 Jan 2023 | 3
Laser-wielding boffins bend lightning to their will
Video Discovery could provide better protection for power stations, airports and launchpads
Science18 Jan 2023 | 30
Boffins say their protective satellite paint job could harvest power from the Sun
How does Multifunctional Nanobarrier Structure sound for the bathroom wall?
Science17 Jan 2023 | 8
The years fly by on first exoplanet confirmed by James Webb Space Telescope
LHS 475 b same size as Earth, rocky, but hotter, and so close to its star it orbits in 2 days
Science12 Jan 2023 | 7
The balmy equator of Mars looks rich in opal-bound water
The poles have ice but it's freezing up there, so why not grind gems for cocktails?
Science09 Jan 2023 | 10
Disruptive innovation's like a party. It's always happening elsewhere
Opinion Citation needed?
Personal Tech09 Jan 2023 | 13
Quantum entanglement discovery could enable futuristic comms tech, Nuclear physicists say
So that must be why the Russians might have hacked the DoE, right?
Science07 Jan 2023 | 47
Uncle Sam OKs vaccine that protects honeybees against hive-destroying bacterium
Maybe humans could learn a thing or two about how modern medicine can prevent the spread of disease
Science06 Jan 2023 | 35
Move over, graphene. There's a new super-material in town: Graphullerene
New family of carbon super-structures discovered for futurologists to fizz over
Science06 Jan 2023 | 28
Rate of disruptive tech and science discoveries has slowed over the decades, claims study
Makes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists?
Science05 Jan 2023 | 42
Literally, look who's back: A comet that last swung by Earth 50,000 years ago
All right, C/2022 E3, we know what you're thinking – and we can explain everything, kinda
Science04 Jan 2023 | 13
NASA's latest AI will navigate the Moon using landmarks
Compass, protractor and map not required to triangulate lunar coordinates
Science20 Dec 2022 | 13
China publishes first images captured by Kuafu-1 solar probe
Initial attempt at longitudinal magnetic map of our local star
Science14 Dec 2022 |
KaRIn to hitch a ride on NASA's water-tracking sat
I demand to speak to the space manager
Science14 Dec 2022 | 1
Boffins hear Martian dust devils' rumbles for first time
Audio recordings of local whirlwinds provide data on Mars weather, wear and tear of space hardware
Science13 Dec 2022 | 3
US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough
Updated If Uncle Sam got more power out of a reaction than it put in, it's a new dawn for clean energy
Science13 Dec 2022 | 100
The cubesats lost in space from Artemis Moon mission
To the four out of ten that didn't make it, we salute 'em
Science12 Dec 2022 | 23
Galactic anti-nuclei travelers could help illuminate dark matter
Earth-based experiment provides model result to help expose mysterious substance making up the majority of the Milky Way
Science12 Dec 2022 | 3
CERN, Fermilab particle boffins bet on AlmaLinux for big science
CentOS tossed
OSes08 Dec 2022 | 15
Two million year old DNA samples discovered, lodged in ancient sediment
It's the Ice Age/Jurassic Park crossover we've been waiting for
Science08 Dec 2022 | 16
Scientists shed light on oddball gamma rays from deep space
They thought they'd grokked short and long types.... then an awkward third kind came along
Science07 Dec 2022 | 8
NASA's COLDArm robot limb can handle seriously cool science
Bofffins claim lunar manipulator is tougher than a Terminator
Science06 Dec 2022 | 3
Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system
Not the first company in the game to chase cable-free charging dragon
Networks05 Dec 2022 | 39
Boffins' beam forming kit opens the door to more realistic holograms
MIT's hardware speeds up light manipulation by a factor of 10
Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project
Being over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light
Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
ISS resupply drops off experiments for life in deep space
If we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology
Science28 Nov 2022 | 17
Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit
Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space
Science25 Nov 2022 | 76
Bright light from black holes found to be caused by particle shock waves
NASA's IXPE space telescope pays off with 'dazzling' observation of intergalactic X-rays
Science24 Nov 2022 | 26
JWST snaps first chemical profile of an exoplanet atmosphere
We knew Wasp 39b was rich in CO2, but now we have the full molecular picture
Science23 Nov 2022 | 43
Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research
EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement
Science22 Nov 2022 | 184
NASA's meteor avoidance plan for James Webb Space Telescope: Turn it around
When a grain of sand moves fast enough to crack a mirror, it's best to put your back to the wind
Science21 Nov 2022 | 16
Boffins are studying Martian clouds to avoid another Opportunity episode
They look and behave a lot like those on Earth – except they're made of dust
Science18 Nov 2022 | 9
Artemis I isn't just a test run – there's science to be done
Amazon and Cisco even managed to sneak Alexa and Webex on board
Science18 Nov 2022 | 33
White dwarf study suggests planets are as old as their stars
Scientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered
Science17 Nov 2022 | 16
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market
Science10 Nov 2022 | 118
This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all
Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this
Science09 Nov 2022 | 58
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds
Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim
Science02 Nov 2022 | 39
InSight Mars lander has only 'few weeks' of power left
Think I got some dust in my eye
Science02 Nov 2022 | 70
Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission
If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are
Science01 Nov 2022 | 7
Signs of sediment-rich ocean lend direction to Mars life search
3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies
Science31 Oct 2022 | 7
Spooky Pillars of Creation snap reveals a dark side
Latest James Webb Space Telescope photo looks positively haunting
Science31 Oct 2022 | 19
NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth
Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags
Science30 Oct 2022 | 41
Martian microbes could survive up to 280 million years buried underground
That is if they're anything like the radiation-resistant 'Conan the Bacterium' here on Earth
Science26 Oct 2022 | 31
Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help
Told no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead by themselves
Science24 Oct 2022 | 31
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record
One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet
Science21 Oct 2022 | 45
California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal
Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists
Science20 Oct 2022 | 33
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water'
Science20 Oct 2022 | 13
How did ESA's gamma ray-spotting 'scope make it to 20? They totally overdid it
We speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape
Science20 Oct 2022 | 6
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school
Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments
Science17 Oct 2022 | 40
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors
The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse
Science17 Oct 2022 | 28
How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth
Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then
Science16 Oct 2022 | 10
Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong
Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers
Science14 Oct 2022 | 30
Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential
1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes
Science13 Oct 2022 | 100
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