Starved.Strange UniverseLike a parasite sucking the life from its host, an international group of scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a distant galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.Because it's not making new stars, the galaxy GS-10578, also known as Pablo’s Galaxy, is basically "dead," said the scientists, led by Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, in a...
A new covid-19 variant called XEC has started to spread worldwide, primarily in Europe. Early evidence indicates that it may transmit more easily than past variants, but public health experts say the new variant is very similar to past ones and the vaccines...
TAMPA, Fla. — Executives discussing emerging space-based computing capabilities Sept. 20 called for stronger collaboration between policymakers and technology leaders to accelerate artificial intelligence’s societal benefits.
Rika Nakazawa, chief of commercial innovation at Japanese telecoms giant NTT, proposed tech providers use private forums to educate policymakers and industry players about AI advancements.
This approach, she said during World Satellite Business Week in Paris, would avoid...
How the tables have turned.Space SuitSpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long fought with fellow tech titan Jeff Bezos and his commercial space company Blue Origin, with Musk lobbing insults like "Sue Origin" and quipping that his rival "can't get it up."One key broadside by Musk: that Bezos has used legal maneuvering to prop up his technically challenged venture, like when Blue Origin sued NASA over...
On 10 September, a US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft chased down Hurricane Francine, then building strength in the Gulf of Mexico. As the plane flew low over the water, helmeted crewmembers known as “warlocks” heaved more than a dozen scientific buoys out of...
