We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Solar cycle, Not a sunspot was stirring, not even a burst; Read moreDrupal 8.8.0…
Bird flu jumps from birds to human in Louisiana; patient hospitalized
A person in Louisiana is hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu after having contact with sick and dying birds suspected of carrying the virus,…
Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought
That mind is partly revealed through Herzog’s running narration, such as when he muses about collective behavior and whether fish have souls—a digression…
NASA’s boss-to-be proclaims we’re about to enter an “age of experimentation”
Meanwhile, over about the same time period, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion deep space crew capsule, and ground support system upgrades cost…
Two European satellites launch on mission to blot out the Sun—for science
Two spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency launched on top of an Indian rocket Thursday, kicking off a mission to test novel…
These spiders listen for prey before hurling webs like slingshots
Along came a spider A) Untensed web shown from front view. (B) Tensed web shown from side view. Credit: Read moreDrupal 8.8.0 is…
Splash pads really are fountains of fecal material; CDC reports 10K illnesses
Once infectious material gets into the water, disinfection systems that aren’t working properly or are inadequate can allow pathogens to gush from every…
Supermassive black hole binary emits unexpected flares
“In addition to stars, gas clouds can also be disrupted by SMBHs and their binaries,” they said in the same study. “The key…
How should we treat beings that might be sentient?
What’s needed, Birch argues, when faced with such staggering uncertainty about the sentience stature of other beings, is a precautionary framework that outlines…
Flour, water, salt, GitHub: The Bread Code is a sourdough baking framework
One year ago, I didn’t know how to bake bread. I just knew how to follow a recipe. If everything went perfectly, I…
Man suffers chemical burn that lasted months after squeezing limes
If Margaritaville were a real place, it should definitely keep a few dermatologists on hand. In a case of an oft-overlooked food preparation…
NASA awards SpaceX a contract for one of the few things it hasn’t done yet
Notably, the Dragonfly launch was one of the first times United Launch Alliance has been eligible to bid its new Vulcan rocket for…
How physics moves from wild ideas to actual experiments
In the case of the AMANDA experiment, early tests in Greenland and later tests at the South Pole began to provide these happy…
The key moment came 38 minutes after Starship roared off the launch pad
That’s when Starship reignited one of its six Raptor engines for a brief burn to make a slight adjustment to its flight path….
IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it’s possible to avoid these problems. This can be done…