NASA plans to build a rail system on the Moon
As NASA sets its sights on establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon in the coming decades, the space agency is exploring innovative ways to transport materials and cargo across the lunar…
Companies seek profits in the race for space metals
By Sarah Scoles In April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched to space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. While the mission, courtesy of a company called AstroForge,…
Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong
The Bitcoin Asia conference, held in Hong Kong, attracted a staggering crowd of over 5,500 attendees, with an estimated half of them hailing from mainland China. This overwhelming interest from the mainland is…
Exoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail
Dakotah Tyler, University of California, Los Angeles Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star…
Elon Musk raises the possibility of finding alien ruins
During a recent interview at the Milken Institute’s global conference in Los Angeles, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk made some thought-provoking comments about humanity’s potential to one day discover traces of long-extinct alien societies….
Stone with ogham inscriptions from Ireland found in England.
A fascinating piece of ancient Irish history has unexpectedly come to light in the most ordinary of places – a suburban garden in Coventry, England. Graham Senior, a 55-year-old geography teacher, made the…
Study on identical twins offers schizophrenia treatment insight
Prof. Shani Stern, leading a study at the University of Haifa, has revealed genetic variations in schizophrenia among discordant monozygotic twins, shedding light on potential treatment avenues. In cases where only one of…
How our brain guides us: Revealing the neural compass
Navigating through the world around us seems like a seamless task, yet it involves complex computations within our brain that go beyond mere mapping. While previous research has delved into understanding how we…
TikTok to implement automatic labeling for AI-generated content
TikTok, the popular social video platform, announced on Thursday its initiative to automatically label AI-generated content that originates from other platforms. This move comes as part of TikTok’s commitment to transparency and ensuring…
Caterpillar robot developed by engineers
Engineers are always looking for innovative ways to overcome the challenges in creating robots, especially when it comes to soft robots. Recently, a group of researchers from Princeton and North Carolina State Universities…