
Newser - 1 day 20 hours ago
NASA's new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, one almost certain to bump astronauts' first lunar trip in decades into spring. The space agency revealed the latest problem just one day after targeting March 6 for the Artemis II mission, humanity's first flight to the moon in more than a...

Discover Magazine - 1 day 23 hours ago
Learn more about the microbes that consume plastic and how they could one day help clean up our environment.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 30 min ago
Data centers for AI are turning the world of power generation on its head. There isn't enough power capacity on the grid to even come close to how much energy is needed for the number being built. And traditional transmission and distribution networks aren't efficient enough to take full advantage of all the power available. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), annual transmission and distribution losses average about 5 percent. The rate is much higher in some other...

Ars Technica - 2 days 1 hour ago
Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples.

Ars Technica - 2 days 2 hours ago
A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don't work.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 3 hours ago
If your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 63,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: Did a prof invent his own Nobel Prize'?; former dean omits pharma ties; AI generated quotes found in now-retracted article on AI...

Financial Times - 2 days 9 hours ago
How paleontologists are battling both poachers and collectors in Mongolia to preserve a cultural heritage...

Financial Times - 2 days 9 hours ago
Meet the minds behind the sport's next (and peculiar) high-tech gamble...

PBS Newshour - 2 days 14 hours ago
This will come as a surprise to no one, but exercise is really good for us. But why it works and how it works are far less understood. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores that with Stanford University's Euan Ashley. He's a professor of genomics and cardiovascular medicine and is part of a team trying to understand, at the very molecular level, how exercise changes our bodies, and why. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast...