Euclid is designed to look far and wide to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe: What are dark matter and dark energy? What role did they play in formation of the cosmic web? The mission will catalogue billions of distant galaxies by scanning across the sky …
Read More »NASA’s Swift temporarily suspends science operations
Swift, illustrated here, is a collaboration between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Penn State in University Park, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems in Dulles, Virginia. Other partners include the University of Leicester and Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the …
Read More »Artists who use AI are more productive but less original
AI tools such as DALL-E can generate sophisticated artworks based on text prompts Rokas Tenys/Shutterstock Using artificial intelligence to create artworks increases artists’ productivity and generates more positive reactions, according to a study involving submissions to a popular art-sharing website by more than 50,000 users. However, generative AI works are …
Read More »Astrophysicist explains science behind once-in-a-lifetime nova outburst that will light up the sky this year
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The total solar eclipse isn’t the only reason to keep your eyes to the sky this year. For the first time in 80 years, a star system 3,000 light years away will be visible to the naked eye thanks to a once-in-a-lifetime nova outburst. NASA announced …
Read More »Astrophysicist’s research could provide a hint in the search for dark matter
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe (NASA JPL/Caltech and STScI) Dark matter is one of science’s greatest mysteries. It doesn’t absorb, reflect or emit light, so we can’t see it. But its presence is implied by the gravitational effects it appears to have on galaxies. Although dark matter makes up …
Read More »Asteroid’s orbit, shape changed after DART impact
The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on Sept. 26, 2022. Observations of the asteroid before and after impact suggest it is a loosely packed “rubble pile” object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, …
Read More »DeepMind and Liverpool FC develop AI to advise on football tactics
Corner kicks, like this one taken by Trent Alexander-Arnold for Liverpool, can lead to goal-scoring opportunities Robbie Jay Barratt/ AMA/Getty An artificial intelligence model can predict the outcome of corner kicks in football matches and help coaches design tactics that increase or decrease the probability of a player taking a …
Read More »NASA delivers science instrument to JAXA’s Martian Moons mission
U.S. and Japanese team members gather around and discuss the gamma-ray spectrometer portion of the MEGANE instrument during its development at Johns Hopkins APL. Credit: NASA/JAXA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman On March 14, NASA handed over its gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer instrument to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for integration onto …
Read More »Could Earth life survive on a red dwarf planet?
This artist’s illustration shows planets orbiting a red dwarf star. Many red dwarfs have planets in their habitable zones, but red dwarf flaring might mean those zones aren’t habitable at all. New research explores the idea. Credit: NASA Even though exoplanet science has advanced significantly in the last decade or …
Read More »Nvidia’s GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip is the most powerful yet for AI
The Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip Nvidia Nvidia has unveiled a “superchip” for training artificial intelligence models, the most powerful it has ever produced. The US computing firm, which has recently rocketed in value to become the world’s third-largest company, has yet to reveal the cost of its new chips, …
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