
UPI - 1 day 10 hours ago
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to harness AI through the Genesis Mission, which will merge scientific research in the United States.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 16 hours ago
Broken Hill-based photojournalist Em Jensen stepped deep into the outback dust, culture and history of far western New South Wales for our story The magic of Mutawintji . The post Notes from the field: An immersive experience appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Newser - 1 day 20 hours ago
Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight and instead perform a trial run with cargo to prove its safety. Monday's announcement comes eight months after the first and only Starliner crew returned to Earth aboard SpaceX after a prolonged mission, the AP reports....

GeekSpin - 2 days 1 hour ago
Mars is full of surprises, but this one had scientists leaning closer to their multi-monitor arrays: a rock, about 31 inches across, sitting alone in a field of fractured bedrock in a region called Vernodden, that looked like it came from somewhere far beyond the red planet's own backyard. NASA's Perseverance rover spotted the oddity […] Read the original article here: NASA finds mysterious rock on Mars that doesn’t belong there...

Retraction Watch - 2 days 2 hours ago
At Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia, faculty members must help raise their school's academic standing not by doing impactful work, but by citing the institution's research in their papers, according to a document Retraction Watch has obtained. In an interoffice memo from 2022, Ahmed Yamani, president of the Riyadh-based institution, referred to "the rule … Continue reading Exclusive: Highly problematic' policy has Saudi university pressuring faculty to cite its research...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 2 hours ago
When treating strokes, every second counts. But for patients in remote areas, it may take hours to receive treatment. The standard treatment for a common type of stroke, caused by large clots interrupting blood flow to the brain, is a procedure called endovascular thrombectomy, or EVT. During the procedure, a n experienced surgeon pilots catheters through blood vessels to the blockage, accessed through a major channel such as the femoral artery in the groin. This is typically aided by x-ray imaging...

The Atlantic - 2 days 3 hours ago
The idea of artificially lowering the planet's temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.

GeekSpin - 2 days 15 hours ago
Tonight, Saturn is about to pull off a cosmic trick that even seasoned skywatchers rarely get to witness its famous rings will seemingly vanish, leaving the gas giant looking strangely bare in the night sky. It's not magic, and it's not a glitch in your telescope, but the reason behind this startling disappearance is far more […] Read the original article here: Saturn's rings disappear tonight in rare cosmic event...