NASA plans to stream the launch live beginning at 12:50 p.m. ET on its YouTube channel, which will also offer live views from the Orion capsule during the mission. Wiseman said the crew nicknamed their spacecraft “Integrity,” as a nod to the principle that guided them and their colleagues throughout their training. “Integrity just fit…
Your article on the Bank of England’s plans to feature nature on future banknotes (‘A toad is a perfect tenner’: experts recommend wild candidates for new banknotes, 21 March) underlines how deeply the natural world shapes our national identity. Yet it was striking that in the suggested wild candidates for the notes, one of nature’s…
Facial recognition technology (FRT) dates back 60 years. Just over a decade ago, deep-learning methods tipped the technology into more useful—and menacing—territory. Now, retailers, your neighbors, and law enforcement are all storing your face and building up a fragmentary photo album of your life. Yet the story those photos can tell inevitably has errors. FRT…
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 30 (Reuters) – NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a key test flight in humanity’s broader lunar goals as the U.S. races to reassert leadership in space faced with growing competition from…
To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or predicting protein shapes. But now, the technology has broken new ground with a fully AI-generated paper passing peer review at a major machine-learning conference workshop. Source: Read Full Article
Three main theories There are many theories about what happened to Earhart, including a 1970 book claiming that Earhart had not only survived the flight but also changed her name and remarried, becoming Irene Craigmile Bolam. Bolam vehemently denied this and sued the publisher, which pulled the book off the market and eventually reached a…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Artemis II astronauts have entered final preparations for their historic trip around the moon, but they won’t be flying alone. While speaking recently at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, mission commander Reid Wiseman revealed the mission’s…
Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This is a summary of: Zhao, X. et al. A logic-gated trispecific engager enhances macrophage killing of cancer cells in solid tumors. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-026-03057-9 (2026). Source: Read Full Article
NASA is making its final preparations to launch its Artemis II rocket on a historic crewed flight around the moon. Artemis II’s mission management team will make a final decision about the readiness of its Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule to launch this afternoon. If they give the green light, then Artemis II…
For a very long time, black was the coolest smartphone color you could pick. It felt sleek and premium, almost like a more refined version of the neutral gray tones that Apple helped popularize. But now that it’s been done to death, black just no longer stands out the way it used to. That’s exactly…
