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Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

The scientist behind the cat-naming neural network is back.

By Kristin Houser

California's Exploratorium has teamed up with NASA to broadcast a livestream of the total solar eclipse over parts of South America.
Solar Power

Here’s How You Can Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse

This livestream could save you from permanent eye damage.

By Kristin Houser

If our climate crisis continues unchecked, the global poor will face the greatest burden while the rich pay to escape the problem altogether.
Climate Change

“Climate Apartheid” Is Imminent. Only the Rich Will Survive.

A UN report predicts the global poor won't be able to escape the worst of the climate crisis.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.
Physics

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

The signal left home 4 billion years ago.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.
Physics

World’s First AI Universe Simulator Knows Things It Shouldn’t

"It’s like teaching image recognition software with lots of pictures of cats and dogs, but then it’s able to recognize elephants."

By Kristin Houser

A town in southern France called Villevieille just hit the country's hottest ever recorded temperature of 45.1 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).
Climate Change

Climate Change Update: France Just Hit Highest Recorded Temp

A southern French town just hit 45.1 degrees Celsius — more than 110 Fahrenheit.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created a version of an MRI machine that's so scaled down, it can capture detailed images of individual atoms.
Quantum Physics

World’s Smallest MRI Machine Means We Can Now Scan Individual Atoms

This device could be a massive step into the era of quantum computing.

By Kristin Houser

NASA tested its Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS) on Tuesday — and it seems the astronaut escape plan worked exactly as hoped.
NASA

NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule Aced Its Abort System Test

"By all first accounts, it was magnificent."

By Kristin Houser

An in-depth study of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system, seems to finally put to bed the theory that it's an alien spacecraft.
Science & Energy

Sorry, but ’Oumuamua the Asteroid Wasn’t Sent by Aliens, Say Scientists, For Some Reason Dignifying This Yet Again

"‘Oumuamua’s properties are consistent with a natural origin."

By Kristin Houser

The most extravagant Fourth of July fireworks can't hold a candle to the stunning cosmic fireworks display the Hubble telescope has captured.
Off-World

Stunning Cosmic Fireworks Display Captured by Hubble, Right on Time

The images' greatness goes well beyond their beauty.

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS mission has a new discovery: a small exoplanet named L 98-59b, the tiniest TESS has ever spotted, which NASA says could have its own atmosphere.
Exoplanets

NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever

The little planet clocks in a bit smaller than Earth, but bigger than Mars.

By Natalie Coleman

Soldiers in Afghanistan will be the first in the United States military to use its pocket-sized Black Hornet recon drones.
Drones

US Army Announces First Deployment of Its Pocket-Sized Drones

"This kind of technology will be a life-saver for us..."

By Kristin Houser

You can now peruse online profiles to pick someone you want to hang out with on a platonic level —as long as renting friends is something you can afford.
Future Society

This Is What You Get When You Rent Friends From the Internet

If you have the money, they have the time.

By Kristin Houser

A month after launch, SpaceX confirmed that three of the 60 Starlink satellites it sent into space have failed — and it won't elaborate as to why.
SpaceX

SpaceX Being Sketch(X) About the 3 Starlink Satellites That Failed

The company either doesn’t know why they failed or is keeping the reason a secret.

By Kristin Houser

A massive new survey is designed to determine how the general public feels about aliens and what humans should do if ET ever reaches out.
Off-World

Scientists Want Your Input on Our Alien Response Plan

If aliens came calling, how would you want humanity to react?

By Kristin Houser

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Advanced Transport

Allianz Wants to Tackle the Challenge of Creating Sustainable Urban Living

The global urban population is increasing. Are cities built to sustain them?

By Rachelle Dragani

NASA announced a new contest in which contestants are asked to come up with a design for a space garden capable of growing crops.
NASA

New NASA Contest Seeks Way to Grow a Space Garden

You can’t colonize the cosmos without a balanced breakfast.

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologists believe that the answer to what alien life could look like on icy moons like Saturn's moon Enceladus could lie deep on the ocean floor.
Science & Energy

Aliens on Icy Moons Could Look Like Organisms Near Seafloor Volcanoes

An underwater volcano near the Big Island of Hawaii could be the perfect analog for Saturn's moon Enceladus.

By Victor Tangermann

To prevent farm animals from contribute to methane emissions, scientists suggest feeding them foods less likely to produce the greenhouse gas.
Climate Change

Gut Microbe Manipulation Could End Climate-Destroying Sheep Farts

We could cut the methane off at its source.

By Kristin Houser

Casinos in China are using artifiical intelligence and facial recognition tools to track and cater to gamblers who are more likely to make riskier bets.
Facial recognition

Chinese Casinos Use AI, Facial Recognition to Spot Suckers

Algorithms learn to figure out which high rollers will part with the most cash.

By Dan Robitzski