A global surveillance network built to hear what no nation can hide: the unmistakable signature of a nuclear explosion, ...
A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come back with a shortlist of unusual objects, ...
Mare Crisium photographed by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. McGetchin crater formed just inside the outer ring of the Crisium basin, about 330 kilometres from the edge of the mare, and is far ...
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko photographed by Rosetta's navigation camera on 20 March 2015 from 83.7 kilometres away. The image predates the 28 March flyby and does not show the individual dust ...
Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent decades turning the electromagnetic noise of the outer planets into ...
The people who build today’s most capable artificial intelligence can describe exactly how they train it. They can write down the architecture, the optimisation procedure and the objective the system ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
The pitch drop experiment with custodian John Mainstone, University of Queensland. Photo: John Mainstone / University of Queensland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In 1927, a physics professor ...
The striking thing in Melin’s account isn’t the farming so much as the refusing. His grandfather, his father, and Jeff himself held the property together through decades when selling would have been ...
Cyanobacteria bloom in a shallow Michigan lake during the fall of 2024. Photo by Leon Katona. Public domain (USGS). In the summer of 2024, a small lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was ...
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, travelled a quarter of a million miles to the Sea of Tranquillity, struck a ...