Project Suncatcher on Freakonomics Podcast: Another take on orbital datacenters

By cannibalizing their siblings in the womb or avoiding meat-eating pliosaurs, fearsome carnivores like the megalodon ballooned to proportions that would dwarf any shark alive today Riley Black | Science Correspondent July 27, 2026 2:22 p.m. A 52-foot-long model of a female Otodus megalodon is suspended from the ceiling at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural…

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land Eli Stark-Elster | AAAS Mass Media Fellow June 18, 2026 Two fossils of juvenile embolomeres—crocodile-like creatures, illustrated here—suggest that they did not…

Silicon has powered computer chips for decades, but engineers are increasingly running into the material’s physical limits. To keep making electronics smaller and more powerful, researchers are investigating ways to combine silicon with new ultrathin materials. One promising group of materials is known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). Among the leading candidates is molybdenum disulfide,…

The use of ultrathin 2D semiconductor materials promises to shrink transistors down to the nanometre scale. However, to achieve a substantial increase in the number of these transistors that can fit on a chip, it is necessary to scale down the metallic contacts that link them to external circuitry. So far, it has not been…

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Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Tags are an ingenious way of organizing files. With tags, you can create relational searches for files. Tags are built into some of the more popular file managers. When you open a file manager, you are most likely searching for…