An unexpected breakthrough: a high school student’s AI uncovers 1.5 million previously invisible cosmic phenomena

If you build a data set and nobody can find it, is it useful? Not as much as it could be. With trust in science under siege from partisan actors and impartial pathogens, the accessibility and transparency of — and trust in — scientific information must be improved. Have people stopped trusting science? The data…

When pieces of mysterious space debris washed up on the beach at her sleepy coastal community in north Queensland, Lisa Scobie’s first thoughts were about making sure everyone was safe. But days later the local takeaway shop owner had settled on another reaction to what had become international news. “We created a special menu item,…

For much of the early 20th century, quantum mechanics was one of the most puzzling ideas in science. The theory challenged conventional thinking and left even leading physicists struggling to make sense of its implications. A century later, it has become the foundation of technologies that influence daily life, including lasers, microchips, secure communications, and…

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The suits were John Young's and Charlie Duke's from Apollo 16 (Young's looked like it still had some moon dust on it) and Charles Bolden's from his Space Shuttle missions. There was also a backup Apollo 11 flag, an Apollo 14 moon rock, Mercury patches, pieces of two Mercury spacecraft's heat shields, and helmets from…

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under sunlight. Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to…