Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes…
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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites and achieves a reusability record for a Falcon 9 booster – TechCrunch
SpaceX launched its second Falcon 9 rocket in the span of just four days on Wednesday…
How Science Adapted To The Aftermath Of Cold War Nuke Tests
Current global events have demonstrated that we do not live in the most stable of times.…
Astronomers watch a dead star ‘power up’ for the first time
A pulsar gobbling up its companion star gives scientists an unprecedented look at some of the…
Why printers add secret tracking dots
Some forms of text-based steganography don’t even use alphanumeric characters or symbols at all. The particular…
A salt mine in Poland contains a chapel and chandeliers made of salt
The unique mine near Krakow is on the UNESCO world heritage sites list, incredible space is…
A Record-Breaking Economic Boom Is About to Go Bust
The developed world’s longest ongoing economic expansion is approaching its expiration date. Australia’s 28-year growth streak…
Ransomware gang says it breached one of NASA’s IT contractors
The DopplePaymer ransomware gang said it successfully breached the network of Digital Management Inc. (DMI), a…
Atmospheric CO2 hits 23-million-year peak, plant fossils reveal
The current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are the highest they’ve been in a…
Wuhan tests 10 million people, finds few infections
The city of Wuhan has tested nearly 10 million people in an unprecedented 19-day campaign to…
Finally, Software That Turns Confusing Math Equations Into Simple Images
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon university have come up with a new tool to automatically turn…
Two studies find that humidity prevents coronavirus spread
Two independent studies have identified a useful tool for stopping the coronavirus: humid air. Dry air…
Prada-Backed AI Startup To Create First Live Streamed 3D Virtual Fashion Show
The ‘virtual’ aspect is that the models and clothes are being created using 3d digital design,…
The Dead Sea Scrolls contain genetic clues to their origins
Genetic clues extracted from slivers of the famous dead sea scrolls are helping to piece together…
Automating Doom with Deep Q-Learning: An Implementation in Tensorflow.
Reinforcement learning algorithms are behind many of the achievements in general ai over the past decade.…
Good egg? Robot chef is trained to make the ‘perfect’ omelette
Engineers from the university of cambridge worked with domestic appliance firm beko to train the machine…
AI breathes new life into a classic ‘80s synth
This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist uses machine learning to generate new patches based on a…
Study finds that patterns formed by spiral galaxies show that the universe may have a defined structure
The different colors mean different statistical strength of having a cosmological quadrupole at different points in…
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known land animal. It’s 425 million years old.
The fossil belongs to the world’s oldest known land animal. It lived during the silurian period,…
The surprise sci-fi movie that’s killing it on Amazon Prime Video
The film team took inspiration from a number of bizarre real-life occurrences. In an interview with…