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Imagine it’s a crisp and sunny fall morning. You just left your local coffee shop, ready to start your day.Out of the corner of your eye, you catch a glimpse…
Three decades ago, David Ho set up two pink, dinosaur-patterned children’s pools in the parking lot of a NOAA building in Miami, where afternoon thunderstorms were common. He was 22,…
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) poses questions not just for technology and the expanded plethora of possibilities it brings, but for morality, ethics and philosophy too. Ushering in this…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered back 13 billion years to discover surprisingly lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars.The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) observations are confusing because…
What it is: The variable binary star R Aquarii and the Cederblad 211 nebulaWhere it is: 710 light-years away, in the constellation AquariusWhen it was shared: Oct. 16, 2024Why it’s…
Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But will it hold that title forever?To answer this question, first we must understand how mountains form and…
Earth’s mantle is split by the Pacific Ring of Fire, an ancient schism that reflects the creation and destruction of the supercontinent Pangaea, a new study finds.One of these sections…
Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand…
Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making…
You don’t need a telescope to see that the moon is riddled with craters. For billions of years, our celestial neighbor has been absolutely bombarded by asteroids and comets, and…