Planetary Habitability There Could Be Up to 10 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy AloneScienceAlert - MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from …
Opinion (UK) The Guardian view on ethics for mathematicians: an essential additionThe Guardian - Editorial“‘Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department’, says Wernher von Braun,” sang the satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer in 1965 about the pioneer rocket scientist
Facial Recognition Amazon Says It Can Detect Fear on Your Face. You Scared?WIRED - Tom Simonite Amazon announced a breakthrough from its AI experts Monday: Their algorithms can now read fear on your face, at a cost of $0.001 per image—or less if …
Poetry Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connectiontheconversation.com - Veronica Alfano Memorising poetry was once common in classrooms. But it has, for the most part, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Memorisation can …
Burnout An Anti-Burnout Pill May Now Be Possible, but Scientists Say It's UnethicalInverse - By Maggie Green "Any intervention that targets the individual is going to be like paddling upstream." When workplace stress becomes all encompassing, it’s easy to …
Science Our Ethics Must Catch Up with Our Increasingly Powerful Technologyscientificamerican.com - Martin E. Hellman Science and engineering have given us physical powers that were historically thought of as belonging only to the gods. In the Judeo-Christian …
Mathematics A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like PiWIRED - Kevin Hartnett The deep recesses of the number line are not as forbidding as they might seem. That’s one consequence of a major new proof about how complicated …
Mobile Technology 7 Skyscrapers Leading the Way to a Green FuturePopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanIn many ways, skyscrapers came to define the 2oth century. Rising out of skeletons of steel, iron, and glass, they showed a new landscape and ecosystem to the world. Cities become incomplete without their
Jumanji How to teach kids about electronics through sewingPopular Science - Eustacia HuenIf you're looking for a child-friendly introduction to electronics, consider sewing. Yes, you read that correctly. Many teachers take this approach—whether it's stitching circuits on a plush toy or weaving
Science Museums Brilliant things happen when science and photography collideMother Nature Network - Mary Jo DiLonardo From the intricate lace-like structure of a telescope to a shiny, closeup of an ebony stag beetle, there are moments when photography shatters the …
Science Long-term memory forming mechanism discovered in micesciencefocus.com - Amy Barrett Your brain has its own box of memories. If you were to hold it in your hand, brush off the dust and open it up, you’d be able to pull out Polaroid …
Canadian News Canadian astronomers find 8 more mysterious repeating fast radio bursts from spaceCBC News - CBC News · They're called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to Canada's largest radio …
Culture When Tech Moguls Act Like Galactic OverlordsWIRED - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Author: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Culture The protagonist of Max Gladstone’s new novel Empress of Forever is Vivian Liao, …
Dinosaurs Why It's Hard to Say Exactly Which Dinosaurs Lived WhenThe Atlantic - Laura PoppickWhen time is measured in 10-million-year blocks, the lines between ecosystems and animals that would never have coexisted can get blurry. At the base of a pale hill in the badlands of northeastern Wyoming,
Edward Hopper Thanks to the Hopper Hotel Experience, You Can Now Spend a Night at the Museumsmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly This fall, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is set to host overnight visitors in a three-dimensional recreation of “Western Motel,” a 1957 painting …
Fourth Industrial Revolution 5 challenges for government adoption of AIweforum.org - Julian Torres Santeli From transportation solutions to video-streaming applications, artificial intelligence (AI) permeates almost every aspect of our lives. This includes …
Supernovae This Is the Most Brutal Supernova in Recorded Historyfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Scientists believe they witnessed the explosion of the most massive star to ever detonate into a supernova. The European Space Agency scientists …
DeepMind DeepMind: The podcast. An eight part series about artificial intelligence, presented by Hannah Frydeepmind.com Subscribe on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, Deezer or your favourite podcast app by searching for “DeepMind: The Podcast”. We’re really proud of …
Space Armchair astrophotography: how to use a remote telescopeskyatnightmagazine.com - Martin Mobberly With a remote telescope you can image the skies on the other side of the world without ever leaving the comfort of your home. Astrophotographers often …
Science Racing toward Absolute Zeroscientificamerican.com - Caitlin Gainey Under a tangled mess of pipes, tubes, gauges, metal plates, pumps and duct tape lies a place colder than outer space. Working in this environment of …
Deepfakes The world’s top deepfake artist is wrestling with the monster he createdMIT Technology Review - Will Knight Hao Li has spent his career perfecting digital trickery. Now he’s working to confront the problem of increasingly seamless off-the-shelf …
Science Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead starNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoRipples in the fabric of spacetime reveal what may be a first-of-its-kind cosmic collision. Some 900 million years ago, a black hole released a terrible belch that echoed through the cosmos. On August
Diamonds Discovery of Ancient "Superdeep" Diamonds Reveals Glimpse of Early EarthInverse - By Emma Betuel "Superdeep diamonds are our window into the deep Earth." The primordial Earth’s active volcanoes and shallow seas would be unrecognizable to …
Science An ecologist with an eye toward forecasting the futuresciencemag.org - Elizabeth Pennisi LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY—The ultimate goal of many biologists is to be able to predict how their system—be it a genome, a cell, an organism, or an entire …
Startups Traces AI is building a less invasive alternative to facial recognition trackingTechCrunch - Lucas MatneyWith all of the progress we’ve seen in deep learning tech in the past few years, it seems pretty inevitable that security cameras become smarter and more capable in regards to tracking, but there are options
Suicide Scientist: Merging Your Brain With AI Would Basically Be Suicidefuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Famed technologist Elon Musk hopes his startup Neuralink will soon help heal people with neurological disorders — and even eventually compete with …
FDA AI Algorithms Need FDA-Style Drug TrialsWIRED - Wired Opinion Imagine a couple of caffeine-addled biochemistry majors late at night in their dorm kitchen cooking up a new medicine that proves remarkably …
Science Astronomers Closer to Cracking Mystery of Fast Radio Burstsscientificamerican.com - Elizabeth Gibney, Nature magazine Astronomers are edging closer to discovering what causes brief, powerful flashes in the sky known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), after a Canadian …
Technology Climate change or just crazy weather? How improving tools make it easier to tell.MIT Technology Review - James Temple Scientists linked late July’s heat wave in Western Europe to climate change in a matter of days. A week after heat waves toppled records across Europe …
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