The Gaofen-5 2 satellite provided the first accurate estimate of the leak from the suspected act of sabotage, scientists involved in the project say.
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An Australian startup is “growing” water for drought-parched California
“This is game-changing,” said CEO of company that creates drinkable water from processed produce.
Creepiest things AI has predicted — from the apocalypse to last selfie on Earth
AI programs are not crystal balls.
If you’ve ever wondered what the apocalypse would look like in the United States, artificial intelligence has been asked to predict it.
Popular TikTok accounts like “Robot Overloards” have been asking AI to predict futuristic events, including the demise of humanity and the apocalypse.
The images include futuristic cities that looked deserted and crumbling.
Scientists want to spray sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere to refreeze the poles
A fleet of roughly 125 tankers could return subpolar regions close to pre-industrial…
A newly-discovered planet that is half-water, half-rock is straight out of science fiction
Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. Some of these are massive and gaseous, while others are tiny and rocky like our home world. But a recent analysis suggests that some of these exoplanets might be more dense and have more water than previously thought, which has big implications for alien life.
There are four main types of exoplanets: Neptunian, gas giant, super-Earth and terrestrial. It’s not easy spotting these planets directly, let alone figuring out what they’re made of. One of the most tried-and-true methods of exoplanet hunting is called transit photometry, which is basically pointing a telescope at a star and measuring the light when a planet swings past. A dip in brightness indicates a planet is there.
But two astronomers, Rafael Luque at the University of Chicago and Enric Pallé at the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain, wanted to find the density of certain exoplanets. When they took a closer look at some of this transit data, they discovered something was off.
Combined transcriptome and metabolite profiling analyses provide insights into the chronic toxicity of carbaryl and acetamiprid to Apis mellifera larvae
Despite many studies have revealed that developing honey bee (Apis mellifera) larvae are posting a high risk on exposure to insecticides, the toxicology information on bee…
Longtermism: The Future Is Vast—What Does This Mean for Our Own Life?
The fact that our actions have an impact on the large number of people who will live after us should matter for how we think about our own lives. Those who ask themselves what they can do to act responsibly towards those who will live in the future call themselves ‘longtermists.’ Longtermism is the ethical view that we should act in ways that reduce the risks that endanger our future, and in ways that make the long-term future go well.1
Before we look ahead, let’s look back. How many came before us? How many humans have ever lived?
It is not possible to answer this question precisely, but demographers Toshiko Kaneda and Carl Haub have tackled the question using the historical knowledge that we do have.
Google’s AI Videos Point to a Machine-Generated Future
Artificial intelligence is quickly advancing in the field of video generation. That could have a profound effect on our social media feeds one day.
The Windows 11 22H2 file copy performance bug could be far worse than first thought
Microsoft recently acknowledged a problem with file copy speeds on its Windows 11 2022 feature update as a big slow-down of up to 40% was noticed. However, the problem could actually be even worse.