
The Guardian - 1 day 9 hours ago
Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a commercial space robot', could not salvage the Nasa observatory A spacecraft that was launched in July on a mission to rescue a decaying Nasa space observatory plunged back to Earth on Friday, concluding a failed mission that will be followed by the telescope's own demise in several weeks' time. Link, billed as "America's first commercial space robot", lifted off on 3 July from Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific islands with the...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 11 hours ago
Like many college professors today, Sarah S. Richardson has seen AI-hallucinated citations in work submitted by her students. But she was surprised when an editor recently contacted her about a hallucinated citation involving her own work. A March 31 email from the editor in chief of Disability Studies Quarterly explained Richardson was one of six … Continue reading Above and beyond: An editor wanted authors to know they'd been falsely cited...

Ars Technica - 1 day 12 hours ago
NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost.

The Atlantic - 1 day 12 hours ago
And in search of a political wave to catch...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 13 hours ago
Welcome to Wild Wins where we share positive stories from the natural world, proudly supported by Coral Expeditions, Australia's pioneering cruise line. The post Wild Wins Vol. 8 appeared first on Australian Geographic .

The Conversation - 1 day 13 hours ago
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. But even they are resisting new developments. And they have specific wishes for how to regulate them.

The Conversation - 1 day 13 hours ago
Understanding what a control' is can help you decide for yourself how insightful new studies are.

The Conversation - 1 day 13 hours ago
The early universe was kind of like a big game of musical chairs scientists are figuring out how many particles were able to find seats' to understand the cosmos.

Newser - 1 day 17 hours ago
Dogs may not grasp grammar, but they seem to zero in on speech patterns the same way humans do. A new study in Science suggests canines have a "consonant bias" they pay more attention to consonants than vowels when we're talking to them. To figure this out, Hungarian researchers attached...

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 18 hours ago
Since writing a book on the night sky (The Wild Dark), I can’t help looking up. I’ve slept outside most nights since the end of February, more comfortable falling asleep under stars than in a bed. The other night, I woke startled at the brightness of the Millky Way, thinking it was a wildfire. The […] The post Make Prayers to the Sky appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Newser - 1 day 19 hours ago
Google's latest moon shot is literally leaving Earth: It's about to test an AI "data center" in orbit. On Thursday, a satellite dubbed MVP is slated to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California into space, where it will run Google's Gemini AI on four custom chips powered by...

Nature - 2 days 2 hours ago
The detection effort enlisted roughly 950 AI agents that spent more than 21 hours combing through DNA sequence databases.

Nature - 2 days 2 hours ago
Laboratories are still using dangerous and carbon-intensive liquids much more often than environmentally friendly ones, according to a 40-year survey of patents.

Nature - 2 days 2 hours ago
The UN's climate loss and damage fund needs to consider how to make decisions about finance fairly and quickly, without disadvantaging low-resource nations.