The Finder TW2 can capture the cosmos in 48-megapixel photos or 4K video, with AI onboard to help keep things sharpBeaverlabStargazing can be both complex and costly, but Beaverlab aims to simplify and reduce the expense with the Finder TW2, a user-friendly telescope that claims to be the world’s first AI-powered planetary camera.Beaverlab, known...
Mars lost most of its surface water billions of years agoNASAThe promising news is that a massive underground ocean on Mars could cover the entire planet with a mile (1.6 km) of water. However, the downside is that this water is buried so deep and is so inaccessible that it might as well be...
OceanX under towMingyangThe largest single-capacity floating wind platform in the world has begun its voyage, with the builder releasing images of the operation. Mingyang's OceanX is set to cover 191 nautical miles (220 miles, 354 kilometers) over the next three days to reach its final offshore location."When we first covered Mingyang’s OceanX, its dual-rotor...
Selective serotonin releasing agent is not negated by 5-HT1A supersensitivity, resulting in a rapid onset of pro-serotonergic activity. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50394-xAccording to a new study in Nature Communications, increasing serotonin can alter how people learn from negative information and enhance their response to it.Researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry and...
An artist's impression of ASKAP with the two most likely candidates for the repeating radio signal it's foundCarl Knox/OzGravAstronomers Detect Unusual Hourly Radio Signal from SpaceAstronomers have detected a highly unusual radio signal from space that repeats every hour, cycling through three distinct states. Despite some hypotheses about its origin, it remains unexplained by...
A rendering of a wall-building robot constructing a blast shield ring on the MoonPhoto credit to NASA, processing/scanning credit to Kipp Teague and NASA Johnson (image AS17-141–21610), editedLiving on the Moon means that rockets will be your sole mode of transportation to Earth or Mars. However, each launch will create a storm of debris....
The self-powered aquatic robot skims on the water's surface like a water striderBinghamton UniversityResearchers have created prototype robot bugs equipped with sensors that replicate biological digestive systems to generate energy, use a Janus interface for a continuous nutrient supply, and glide across water like water striders.In 2017, DARPA introduced a program to develop and...
Credit: A 64-year-old patient with ALS has become the first person in the world to use Apple's Vision Pro AR/VR spatial computer via the Stentrode brain-computer interfaceSynchronMinimally Invasive Approach to Brain-Computer InterfacesRather than removing part of the skull to install a brain-computer interface like Neuralink, Synchron uses electrodes that are introduced through the jugular...
Credit: PixabayIn a thrilling advancement for astronomy and the quest for extraterrestrial life, an international team of scientists has revealed the discovery of Gliese 12 b, a temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet located just 40 light-years away, which equates to a relatively close 378 trillion kilometers from Earth.Researchers globally, with significant contributions from McGill University and...
The mobile brick factory neatly stacks the bricks as it pops them outMCCWars are adept at turning buildings into rubble, but this mobile manufacturing machine does the opposite: it transforms debris from destroyed buildings into bricks. These bricks can be assembled Lego-style into mortarless structures. After years of development, the first mobile brick factory...
