The full ‘Corn Moon’ rises this week — bringing a ‘blood moon’ lunar eclipse to most of the world
A moon increases over a wheat field in southern Alberta, Canada, on Aug. 30, 2023. (Image credit: Royalty-free by means of Getty Images) The last moon of the Northern Hemisphere’s…
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Earth models can predict the planet’s future but not their own
Among the world’s primary environment designs now deals with financing dangers. Credit: Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images Credit: Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather condition simulations…
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There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say — from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with humanity
(Image credit: Boris SV through Getty Images) Researchers have actually recommended that when expert system ( AI)goes rogue and begins to act in methods counter to its designated function, it…
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The world’s first view of Earth from the moon, taken 59 years ago — Space photo of the week
“true” fetchpriority=”high”> The world’s very first view of Earth, taken by a spacecraft from the area of the moon, was caught Aug. 23, 1966. ( Image credit: NASA ) FAST…
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The geology that holds up the Himalayas is not what we thought, scientists discover
The Himalayas are the world’s greatest range of mountains and home to Mount Everest. (Image credit: Pakawat Thongcharoen/Getty Images) Researchers might have simply fallen a 100-year-old theory about what holds…
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We finally have an idea of how the lifetime supply of eggs develops in primates
This image reveals an area through a rhesus macaque ovary, with the egg cells in green. The little, green circles at the external edge(25 to 30 of them in this…
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How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists
Illustration of a skull, seen from the left side, revealing the primary craniometric points. (Image credit: Frederick Henry Gerrish(1845-1920), Public domain, by means of Wikimedia Commons) The current publication of…
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5 common mistakes beginner astrophotographers make — and how to avoid them
(Image credit: Getty Images ) Astrophotography has a practice of humbling even the most positive professional photographers. What appears like a best scene to the eye frequently develops into blurred…
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NASA telescope spotted rare interstellar comet 2 months before it was officially ‘discovered’
Hubble picture of 3I/ATLAS caught in late July. (Image credit: NASA/ESA ) Among the benefits of having a lot of telescopes enjoying big parts of the sky is that, if…
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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG
It’s a carefully seen test of whether business alliances on environment efforts breach antitrust laws. This post initially appeared on Inside Climate News, a not-for-profit, non-partisan wire service that covers…
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