Posted inHilma af Klint Physics Science
Did Hilma af Klint draw inspiration from 19th century physics?
Making the case Young and af Klint were not contemporaries; Young died in 1829, and…
Posted inblue origin china hypersonic vehicles
Rocket Report: China launches refueling demo; DoD’s big appetite for hypersonics
Relativity's value seems to be plummeting. For several years, an innovative, California-based launch company named…
Man turns irreversibly gray from an unidentified silver exposure
When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong was admitted to a hospital for a condition…
Posted incarbon dioxide climate change Earth science
Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented
Lining up the baselines shows that these different services largely agree with each other, with…
Posted incarbon emissions electric grid Energy
Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations
A backstop That said, the team behind the analysis argues that, depending on other factors,…
Posted inCalifornia Los Angeles palisades
Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire
Let's start with the meteorology. The Palisades wildfire and other nearby conflagrations were well-predicted days…
A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly
This means SpaceX will break its own record for launching the largest and most powerful…
Posted inmathematics networks percolation
Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There's also the more recent concept of "explosive percolation," whereby connectivity emerges not in a…
Posted inaerial archaeology ancient asia ancient europe
Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia
A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern…
Posted inAI Computer science Health
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
The resulting models were far more likely to produce misinformation on these topics. But the…