In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had...
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“3D map data is the scaffolding of the 21st century.”
–Edward Miller, Founder, Scape Technologies, UK
Covered in cameras, sensors, and a distinctly spaceship looking...
Huntsville Alabama’s Lowe Mill arts and entertainment center offers studios to artists of all kinds—sculptors, bookbinders, woodworkers. It’s the kind of place where, in...
The biggest barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles are their limited range and long charging times compared to gasoline cars. But the release...
HEALTH
How Science Beat the Virus
Ed Yong | The Atlantic
"Much like famous initiatives such as the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program, epidemics focus the...
Imagining future cities has long been a favorite activity for architects, artists, and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes—it appears as a...
In 1956, an early demonstration of solar photovoltaics produced a watt of energy for the modest price of an inflation-adjusted $1,865. Put another way,...
ENVIRONMENT
Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth
Stephanie Pappas | Scientific American
"Humanity has reached a new milestone in its dominance of the planet: human-made...
Brain scans, like social distancing, are inherently very lonely.
Regardless of the equipment, brain scans often rely on a single person performing a single task,...
The amazing thing about quantum computers isn't that they’re currently revolutionizing computers as we know them. The machines are still clunky, finicky, expensive, and...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
'It Will Change Everything': DeepMind's AI Makes Gigantic Leap in Solving Protein Structures
Ewen Callaway | Nature
"In some cases, AlphaFold's structure predictions were indistinguishable...
Thanks to SpaceX, traveling beyond Earth now seems pretty tangible for us commoners.
True, a ticket to the International Space Station currently runs $55 million...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?
Dennis Overbye | The New York Times
"Computer programs like DeepMind’s AlphaGo keep discovering new ways to...
HEALTH
Larry Brilliant Says We'll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell
Steven Levy | Wired
"The epidemiologist calls it 'the best of times and the worst of...
There’s been plenty of hand-wringing about the potential for the Covid-19 pandemic to distract from the ongoing fight against climate change. But the latest...
COMPUTING
Like a Futuristic Phone Booth, PORTL Lets You Communicate Via Full-Body Hologram
Luke Dormehl | Digital Trends
" wants to reinvent the way we beam people,...
Every day, Americans travel on roads, bridges, and highways without considering the safety or reliability of these structures. Yet much of the transportation infrastructure...
