NASA’s Perseverance rover finds its first possible hint of ancient life on Mars
The NASA Mars rover examined a rock containing organic compounds and “leopard spots” that, on Earth, are associated with microbial life.
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Rocket delivered to launch site for first human flight to the Moon since 1972
Enlarge (credit: NASA/Isaac Watson) The central piece of NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. Agency officials intend to start stacking the towering launcher in the next couple of months for a…
Google claims math breakthrough with proof-solving AI models
Enlarge / An illustration provided by Google. (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reportedly solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving a score equivalent…
Anxiety and depression raise the risk of dangerous blood clots, study finds
Recent research has drawn a link between anxiety, depression and an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis.
Sharing false political information is associated with heightened schizotypy
A recent study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE explores how personality traits influence the sharing of false political information on social media. The research reveals that positive schizotypy — a set of traits including paranoia, suspicion, and disrupted…
OpenAI hits Google where it hurts with new SearchGPT prototype
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI) Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online than OpenAI. Despite its best intentions—and against its terms of service—its AI language models are often used to compose spam,…
Scientists unlock more secrets of Rembrandt’s pigments in The Night Watch
Enlarge / Rembrandt’s The Night Watch underwent many chemical and mechanical alterations over the last 400 years. (credit: Public domain) Since 2019, researchers have been analyzing the chemical composition of the materials used to create Rembrandt’s masterpiece, The Night Watch, as…
US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year
Enlarge (credit: Vithun Khamsong) With the plunging price of photovoltaics, the construction of solar plants has boomed in the US. Last year, for example, the US’s Energy Information Agency expected that over half of the new generating capacity would be…
Sonos CEO apologizes for botched app redesign, promises month-by-month updates
Enlarge / I don’t know how Sonos’ app might have developed during the groovy era their marketing images aim to summon, but it feels like it might not have wanted to rush head-long into disappointing users quite so quickly. (credit:…
Lego’s newest retro art piece is a 1,215-piece Super Mario World homage
The Lego Mario & Yoshi set is an homage to 1990’s Super Mario World. [credit: The Lego Group ] Nintendo and Lego are at it again—they’re announcing another collaboration today as a follow-up to the interactive Mario sets, the replica…
