Robotics

Mathematicians Explain Why Some Lengths Can’t Be Measured

Mathematicians Explain Why Some Lengths Can’t Be Measured

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 29

Can you assign a size to every object? The surprising answer is no

AI Report Shows ‘Startlingly Rapid’ Progress—And Ballooning Costs

AI Report Shows ‘Startlingly Rapid’ Progress—And Balloo...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 61

A new report finds that AI matches or outperforms people at tasks such as compet...

It’s Time to Act on Pilot’s Mental Health

It’s Time to Act on Pilot’s Mental Health

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 20

Mental health recommendations for pilots and air traffic controllers bring new i...

This Nearly 50-Foot Snake Was One of the Largest to Slither the Earth

This Nearly 50-Foot Snake Was One of the Largest to Sli...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 25

Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigant...

Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. They Can Still Be Saved

Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. ...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 37

“A mass bleaching event is, by definition, a mass mortality event,” a leading co...

SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sample Return Mission

SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sa...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 20

Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to...

What Philosopher Ibn Sina Can Teach Us about AI

What Philosopher Ibn Sina Can Teach Us about AI

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 23

A philosopher who lived centuries before artificial intelligence might be able t...

Hollywood Should Give Brain Science a Star Turn

Hollywood Should Give Brain Science a Star Turn

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 20

Movies and TV shows frequently depict physical and biological sciences well, but...

A Dengue Fever Outbreak Is Setting Records in the Americas

A Dengue Fever Outbreak Is Setting Records in the Americas

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 23

At least 2.1 million cases of dengue fever have been reported in North and South...

Spiderlike Mars Robot Might One Day Crawl through Unexplored Volcanic Caves

Spiderlike Mars Robot Might One Day Crawl through Unexp...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 26

This eight-legged probe would scour Mars’s underground lava tubes for places whe...

Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingly Close to Earth

Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingl...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 22

A black hole weighing as much as 33 suns lurks a mere 2,000 light-years away fro...

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Humanity

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Hum...

SIN Apr 18, 2024 0 26

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installatio...

NASA’s Artemis Astronauts Will Help Grow Crops on the Moon—And Much More

NASA’s Artemis Astronauts Will Help Grow Crops on the M...

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 38

When astronauts return to the moon later this decade, they’ll bring along scienc...

AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator

AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 53

AI can better education, not threaten it, if we learn some lessons from the adop...

The Evolution of a Big, Ugly Cry

The Evolution of a Big, Ugly Cry

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 47

Uncontrollable sobbing is uniquely human, and it may be our emotions running out...

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

SIN Apr 17, 2024 0 30

Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and publi...

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