
IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 21 hours ago
Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It's shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too. Last December, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover , with human planners checking and adjusting the route before upload. In May, NASA and IBM put a compressed AI model on the International Space Station and a satellite to identify things like floods and clouds...

The Atlantic - 1 day 21 hours ago
Storms driven by El Ni o are pulling chunks of coast away.

Wired - 1 day 21 hours ago
Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between two separate spacecraft.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 23 hours ago
Your average frog loves a good meaty fly. But to this amphibian predator, a stationary fly might not register as something worth nabbing, if it is seen at all. "[A frog] will starve to death surrounded by food if it is not moving," wrote the authors of a 1959 paper in Proceedings of the IRE […] The post The Frog and the Fly appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Science Daily - 2 days 1 hour ago
A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure. Urolithin A helped stiff heart tissue relax and reduced scarring and abnormal enlargement. It also improved relaxation in engineered human heart tissue.