NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade—but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take...
Water is the essence of life.
When scientists discovered permafrost ice caps on Mars’ north pole in 1976, the news immediately sparked speculation about potential...
SPACE
SpaceX Catches Returning Rocket in Mid-Air, Turning a Fanciful Idea Into Reality
Stephen Clark | Ars Technica
"This achievement is the first of its kind, and...
For the first time, an off-the-shelf CAR T cell therapy has been used to treat potentially life-threatening autoimmune disorders in three people. With a...
Two of San Francisco’s leading players in artificial intelligence have challenged the public to come up with questions capable of testing the capabilities of...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI’s Penicillin and X-Ray Moment
Matteo Wong | The Atlantic
"When the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, he designated funds to reward...
The 25-year-old woman had suffered through decades of medical nightmares.
A native of Tianjin, a city roughly two hours west of Beijing, she was diagnosed...
Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, my colleagues and I have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last...
There has long been hope that AI could help accelerate scientific progress. Now, companies are betting the latest generation of chatbots could make useful...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MIT Spinoff Liquid Debuts Non-Transformer AI Models and They’re Already State-of-the-Art
Carl Franzen | VentureBeat
"Unlike most others of the current generative AI wave, these...
The artificial intelligence industry is obsessed with size. Bigger algorithms. More data. Sprawling data centers that could, in a few years, consume enough electricity...
