From the andes to the beginning of time: Telescopes detect 13-billion-year-old signal
For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion…
Scientists fear the Atlantic’s great ocean conveyor could shut down
Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf Stream, could shut down after the year 2100. This is the conclusion of a new study, with contributions by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The shutdown would cut the ocean’s northward heat…
The Druids Oak is 800 years old
Helen BriggsBBC environment correspondent and Gwyndaf HughesScience videographer BBC The Druids Oak is the oldest living tree in this woodland in Buckinghamshire Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more. “We know that this…
1st September – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 1st September, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES American consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion has suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of sensitive personal information for over 4.4 million individuals in the United States. The leaked data…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), aims to help the region achieve technological independence by developing an open source AI model trained on Latin American languages and contexts. “This work cannot be undertaken by just…
Get ready for a glorious Harvest Blood Moon on 7 September
“Find the moon and watch it darken and redden…” JG Photography/Alamy My feelings about the moon changed in the past year, when I gave birth on the day of not just a full moon, but a Harvest Moon. For the first few months of my son’s life, the passing of time felt very strange –…
Inside the missions that made the moon landings possible
On 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The mission was part of NASA’s Mercury human spaceflight programme and came just nine months after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. Another significant moment came when Glenn used a camera he had purchased from a…
Spacecraft used to forecast solar storm 15 hours before it hit Earth
Solar storms pose a threat to electronic systems on Earth Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA. We may one day be able to forecast powerful solar storms capable of devastating Earth’s electronics more than half a day in advance, following a successful test of the approach using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The sun occasionally releases powerful blasts…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we look back at the week’s biggest stories—from the researchers leaving Meta’s new superintelligence lab, to the dark money group funding Democratic influencers. Source link
Scientists stunned by the Universe’s first known black hole
An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed. It and the galaxy it calls home, CAPERS-LRD-z9, are present 500 million years after the Big Bang. That places it 13.3 billion years into the past, when our universe was…
Dark matter could be turning giant planets into black holes
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and consider the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Now, a UC Riverside study published in Physical Review D suggests that these “exoplanets” could also serve as tools to investigate dark matter. The researchers examined how dark matter, which makes…
