Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91. She spent decades studying and advocating for chimpanzees, became the world’s leading expert on our closest primate relatives and transformed our understanding of humankind. She leaves behind a towering legacy of empathy...
The mass adoption of generative AI has given rise to some bizarre waves of incomprehensible slop.
There was the “good ending,” a glut of AI generated images depicting Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg as starcrossed lovers, which surfaced as their public feud threatened to turn violent. Then of course there was “Shrimp Jesus,” followed closely by the “baby monk,” a disturbing series featuring...
SYDNEY, Australia – The University of South Australia announced an agreement Sept. 29 with Australian start-up RapidBeam and Japanese startup Warpspace to develop laser communication systems.
Under the agreement, announced at the International Astronautical Congress here, Warpspace’s optical modem will be integrated with the Australasian Optical Ground Station Network (AOGSN) and demonstrated in space-to-space and satellite-to-ground testing. The University of South Australia leads the...
The belly button, it turns out, is one of the least-studied parts of the human body. But one of its great mysteries may now have been solved – why most people have an innie, or concave belly button. This may be due to...
3D Perspective View of Latona Corona and Dali Chasma on Venus. Source: Getty Images
The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand mark. Or they can be as little as a few dozen miles across. In images taken from...
