2024-10-08 Developers of AI Methods Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Two early developers of artificial intelligence (AI) have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. American John Hopfield is with…
2024-10-07 Two Americans Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for microRNA Discovery
Two Americans have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of genetic material called microRNA.…
2024-10-06 Study: Replanting Same Trees Cannot Replace Burned Forests
Camille Stevens-Rumann recently sat on the ground and measured small trees to see how much they had grown in seven…
2024-10-06 NASA Follows Asteroid Moving Closer to Earth from Sun’s Orbit
Scientists have discovered a small asteroid that recently moved closer to Earth’s orbit. The object was first observed August 7…
2024-10-03 Argentine Town Struggles with Parrot Invasion
The Argentine town of Hilario Ascasubi near the country’s Atlantic coast has a problem not many places have ever had.…
2024-10-02 Everest Growing Taller than Expected
Mount Everest, standing 8.85 kilometers above sea level, is Earth’s tallest mountain. And Mount Everest is still growing. Mount Everest…
2024-10-02 US Seeks Ban on Chinese, Russian Tech for Self-driving Vehicles
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has proposed a ban on the sale of self-driving vehicles in the U.S.…
2024-09-29 Study: Water Sources on Moon More Widespread than Thought
A new study suggests sources of water on the moon are more widespread than previously thought. The study was based…
2024-09-25 Scientists Find Energy Jets Among the Universe’s Largest Structures
Scientists say they have found the largest jets of energy ever observed shooting out of a black hole in a…
2024-09-25 New California Laws Aim to Prevent AI Harm during Elections
California recently enacted three legislative measures that ban the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create false images and…
2024-09-22 NASA Spacecraft to Look for Signs of Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
The American space agency NASA has cleared a spacecraft to launch next month to look for possible signs of life…
2024-09-19 Black Women Mathematicians Receive Congressional Medals for Space Program Work
The United States Congress has honored four women known as the “hidden figures” of the space race with its highest…
2024-09-18 US Police Try AI for Help with Crime Reports
Some police departments in the United States are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help them produce incident reports.…
2024-09-17 Companies Grow Cocoa Beans in Lab to Produce Chocolate
Climate change pressures have led some companies to try growing cocoa in new environments to produce chocolate. Some of the…
2024-09-16 SpaceX Crew Returns to Earth after First Private Spacewalks
The four-member crew of a private space flight has returned to Earth after a trip that included the first-ever spacewalks…