In our top science stories this week: Writer Ed Cara looks back at the terrifying prion disease known as Mad Cow; researchers discover seamounts taller than the Burj Khalifa; and the journal… Read More
In our top science stories this week, SpaceX must deorbit 100 Starlink satellites due to a flaw; a person in Oregon caught the bubonic plague from their pet cat; and the Perseverance rover&r… Read More
This week, we saw the first-ever image of a newborn great white shark; scientists figured out what’s really happening when insects fly around artificial lights; and mathematicians reve… Read More
After months of fighting with two stubborn fasteners, NASA scientists finally cracked open the canister containing precious pieces of an ancient asteroid. Click through for our top science s… Read More
Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. A remotely operated vehicle took incredible images of this species and its habitat, in… Read More
Our top science stories this week include a physics experiment to turn light into matter, an update from NASA’s Juno mission (it’s about to make a close encounter with Jupiter&rs… Read More
The week’s top three stories on the science beat all made me a little uncomfortable, to be honest. The news that scientists found a credible link between having a cat during your child… Read More
Space is hard, as the cliché reminds us, and that was plenty clear this week, as several groups ran into trouble: NASA with its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, AstroForge with a strugglin… Read More
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper About Itself—Then We Tried to Get It PublishedAlmira Osmanovic Thunström | Scientific American“On a ra… Read More
“The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.” — Jerry Saltz
Lab-grown fake meat is one of the largest… Read More