More from Frank Landymore (Page 27)

Think and you’ll miss it: researchers at MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses a million times faster than those in our human brains.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real Thing

By Frank Landymore

A small nuclear reactor has been approved for certification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, the first in the country.
Nuclear Fusion

First Small Nuclear Reactor Greenlit By US Regulators

By Frank Landymore

New images show just how drastic the Great Salt Lake's decline has been — and where the resulting clouds of dangerous dust could fall.
Climate Change

Shocking New Images Show Major US Lake Drop To Lowest Recorded Water Levels

By Frank Landymore

Roboticists at Stanford University announce the succesful exploration of two more sunken ships using their bleed-edge diving robot that is capable of touch.
Robotics

Terrifying Humanoid Diving Robot With “Human” Sense of Touch Explores Shipwreck

By Frank Landymore

After three years of testing in the field, scientists in China claim that they've identified a way to engineer transgenic rice that needs less fertilizer.
Science & Energy

Scientists Gene Hack Rice to Need Way Less Fertilizer and Boost Yields

By Frank Landymore

Citizens living in the southwestern Japanese city of Yamaguchi have found themselves besieged by violent gangs of macaque monkeys.
Science & Energy

Japanese City Terrorized By Furious Baby-Snatching Monkeys

By Frank Landymore

On Wednesday, NASA announced that it plans to send two more Ingenuity-class helicopters to Mars to assist in its mission to bring Martian samples to Earth.
Advanced Transport

NASA Says It’s Sending Two More Ingenuity-Class Helicopters to Mars

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.
Science & Energy

Jupiter’s Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet’s Rings

By Frank Landymore

A "black widow" pulsar is devouring its neighboring star, and in the process has become the densest neutron star ever recorded.
Science & Energy

Pulsar Devours Neighbor, Becomes Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

Researchers working at Samsung AI Center unveil "neural head avatar technology" that turns still photos into eerily lifelike animated faces.
Artificial Intelligence

Eerie Deepfake Tech Turns Random Guy Into Angelina Jolie

By Frank Landymore

Nearly 20 years of Alzheimer's research could be undone after investigators uncover that a widely cited and influential paper may have used fabricated data.
Studies

Decades of Alzheimer’s Research Allegedly Based on Fabricated Data

By Frank Landymore

You might want to have the spidey-sense to stay away from this one: engineers at Rice University have turned dead spiders into “necrobotic” grippers.
Robotics

Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into “Necrobotic” Arachnoborgs

By Frank Landymore

YouTubers at Out of Spec Reviews claim that an enthusiast's Tesla Model X has only lost 10 percnet of its battery capacity after 200,000 miles.
Tesla

Tesla Drives 200,000 Miles, Only Loses Ten Percent of Battery Capacity

By Frank Landymore

Almost 47 years later, a discarded coffee cup containing DNA may be the key to solving an infamous cold case in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Science & Energy

Investigators Analyze DNA Sample to Make Arrest in 1975 Murder

By Frank Landymore

META, an art installation company, is now suing Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook, claiming that its identity has been stolen.
Future Society

Another Company Called Meta Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company for Changing Its Name to Meta

By Frank Landymore

NASA and Roscosmos space relations have been souring. Looking to turn a new leaf, both have agreed to let their astronauts fly on the other's spacecraft.
SpaceX

In Huge Reversal, Russia Letting SpaceX Fly Cosmonauts to Space Station

By Frank Landymore

Protecting children online has never been easy. With the advent of facial recognition search engine PimEyes, the safety of children is even more at risk.
Facial recognition

Experts Horrified by Facial Recognition Site That Digs Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos of Children

By Frank Landymore

Climate-change-driven heat waves spell disaster for the UK as the country buckles under its hottest night and day ever, back to back.
Climate Change

UK Has Hottest Night in Recorded History, Then Hottest Day in Recorded History

By Frank Landymore

Sales for EVs are at a record high. But, as one family in St. Petersburg, FL, found out, so are the costs of replacing their batteries.
Advanced Transport

Family Annoyed When Replacement Batteries Cost More Than Electric Car

By Frank Landymore

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone successfully transplanted genetically engineered pig hearts into two patients who were recently declared deceased from brain death.
Developments

Doctors Transplant Beating Pig Hearts Into Dead Human Bodies

By Frank Landymore

Deepfakes are a growing threat, and detecting them is only getting harder. A new study says our subconscious is surprisingly effective at detecting them.
Brain

Scientists Jack Into Subjects’ Brains, Find That They Can Identify Deepfakes Subconsciously

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX’s Booster 7 rocket prototype ignited in a massive fireball on Monday, stunning onlookers. A new photograph provides a closer look at the damage.
Advanced Transport

Close Up Photo Shows SpaceX Starship Booster After Mysterious Blast

By Frank Landymore

Lake Taupo is the largest in New Zealand. Studying 42 years worth of data, scientists now believe the supervolcano beneath its surface is once again active.
Science & Energy

Active Supervolcano Is Causing Ground Above It To Shift, Study Finds

By Frank Landymore

In the never ending challenge to get the video game DOOM to run on wildly differing platforms, this programmer managed to run it in DOOM itself.
Future Society

Rejoice, Gamers! You Can Now Run DOOM Inside DOOM

By Frank Landymore

Brad Pitt is one of the most recognizable faces in acting. But recognizing faces is something that Pitt himself seriously struggles with.
Neuroscience and Brain

Brad Pitt Says He Has Prosopagnosia

By Frank Landymore

NASA just teased us with a list of the cosmic wonders captured by the James Webb telescope for its upcoming first images.
James Webb Space Telescope

Here’s What to Expect From James Webb’s First Images

By Frank Landymore

While addressing legislators on Thursday, EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič warned that "the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever."
Climate Change

EU Warns That Current Drought Could Become “The Worst Ever” As Fires Spread

By Frank Landymore

NASA dropped an update on its official blog detailing the causes of their satellite's dropout. In a nutshell? A bad command and a software error.
Moon

We Finally Know Why NASA Lost Contact With Moonbound Spacecraft

By Frank Landymore

After video footage showed SpaceX's Starship prototype rolling onto its launch site, a Twitter user shared a stunning render of the Starship in NASA livery.
Advanced Transport

Beautiful Render Shows Starship With Full NASA Paint Job

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Discover That Being “Hangry” Is a Real Phenomenon
Studies

Scientists Discover That Being “Hangry” Is a Real Phenomenon

By Frank Landymore

After running nearly 3,000 simulations, scientists found that a minor change in Neptune's orbit caused by a passing star could disrupt our system's orbits.
Off-World

Scientists Predict That The Solar System Could Collapse If a Star Flew Too Close

By Frank Landymore

While the Starship looks set to launch after FAA approval, the future of the facility's role as its main launch site isn't as clear.
SpaceX

Area Residents Express Dismay As SpaceX Looks Poised To Downgrade “Starbase” R&D Facility

By Frank Landymore

Yesterday, news broke that NASA lost contact with its just-launched CAPSTONE satellite, just a day after the spacecraft successfully escaped Earth’s orbit.
Moon

NASA Still Has No Contact With Spacecraft En Route to the Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Capstone satellite is currently hurtling towards the Moon after successfully breaking free of Earth's orbit on Monday.
Moon

There’s a NASA Satellite Headed Toward the Moon Right Now

By Frank Landymore

Just as news circulated that the LHC was firing up for the first time in 3 years, its scientists have already announced the discovery of three new particles
Science & Energy

Large Hadron Collider Discovers Strange New Particles

By Frank Landymore

Two new high capacity battery prototypes are pushing the frontiers of energy storage — and in a beachy twist, one is based on sand and the other on water.
Energy

Unrelated Teams Install “Sand Battery” and “Water Battery”

By Frank Landymore

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars
Mars

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars

By Frank Landymore

Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed.
Off-World

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

GM debuts its fleet of driverless Cruise model robotaxis in San Francisco, open to the public and charging fares. Now it wants to expand to other cities.
Advanced Transport

GM’s Robotaxis Are Now Collecting Fares with No Safety Driver

By Frank Landymore

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

A study published Monday found that cannabis consumers were 22 percent more likely to end up in the ER or be hospitalized than those who didn’t smoke weed.
Developments

Study Finds That Weed Puts You at Higher Risk for Hospitalization

By Frank Landymore