We’re just a few days away from getting a double-dose of heavy-lift rocket action. Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic rocket plane will […]
Tag: Science
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 related to an enlarged prostate, […]
Everyone agrees: 2024 the hottest year since the thermometer was invented
An exceptionally hot outlier, 2024 means the streak of hottest years goes to 11. With very few and very small […]
Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations
Set to be killed by Trump, the rules mostly lock in existing trends. In April last year, the Environmental Protection […]
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 in advance. After a typically […]
A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly
Starship will test its payload deployment mechanism on its seventh test flight. SpaceX’s first second-generation Starship, known as Version 2 […]
Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There’s also the more recent concept of “explosive percolation,” whereby connectivity emerges not in a slow, continuous process but quite […]
Archaeologists just mapped a Bronze Age megafortress in Georgia
pastoral nomads, please stop here This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds. This orthographic photo shows […]
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate. It’s pretty easy to see the problem here: […]
China is having standard flu season despite widespread HMPV fears
There’s a good chance you’ve seen headlines about HMPV recently, with some touting “what you need to know” about the […]