Global carbon emissions reach new record high in 2024, with no end in sight, scientists say
An offshore oil rig in twilight (Image credit: think4photop via Getty Images) Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high in 2024, and there’s still no sign…
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Should you shop on Prime Day, or wait for Black Friday?
(Image credit: Getty Images) It’s that time of year when one retail event seems to follow another, all vying to get your attention — and your money — in the…
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This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower
Skip to content An elephant never forgets A younger rival may have learned how to sabotage those showers by disrupting water flow. An elephant named Mary has been filmed using…
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New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
Date AI enabled Fields Medal winners Terence Tao and Timothy Gowers to examine parts of the criteria. “These are extremely challenging,” Tao stated in feedback supplied to Epoch. “I think…
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For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
“This reduction is spread across essentially all areas of the Lab including our technical, project, business, and support areas,” Leshin composed. “We have taken seriously the need to re-size our…
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What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?
For many years now, lots of AI market watchers have actually taken a look at the rapidly growing abilities of brand-new AI designs and mused about rapid efficiency increases continuing…
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Canada reports 1st local case of H5 bird flu
A teen in Canada tested positive for an H5 virus, which causes a type of bird flu. (Image credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) A hospitalized teen in…
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Extremely rare ‘failed supernova’ may have erased a star from the night sky without a trace
Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black hole. The supergiant star M31-2014-DS1, which has a mass 20 times greater…
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Physicists Find Evidence for Superfluidity in Low-Density Neutron Matter
A precise description of low-density nuclear matter is important for discussing the physics of neutron star crusts, according to a group of theoretical physicists led by Argonne National Laboratory’s Dr….
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Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986 was During Anomalous Solar Event, New Study Suggests
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped Uranus in 1986, it supplied researchers’ very first close glance of this ice-giant world. Together with the discovery of brand-new moons and rings, baffling…
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