AvatarMarkB SmithAvatarAvatarAI Detects Unusual Signal Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpieceverified_publisherScienceAlert - David NieldArtificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural network has identified something …
AvatarMarkB SmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe quantum egg that birthed the Universebigthink.com - Marcelo GleiserWhat would become the Big Bang model started from a crucial idea: that the young Universe was denser and hotter. This is the seventh article in a …
AvatarMarkB SmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo6 major cracks have appeared in the standard model of cosmology. Is it wrong?bigthink.com - Adam FrankSpecial Collection 6 Flaws in Our Understanding of the Universe It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift. Key Takeaways The standard model of …
AvatarMarkB SmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhy atoms are the Universe's greatest miraclebigthink.com - Ethan SiegelWith a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know. One of the …
AvatarMarkB SmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMIT scientists pull carbon dioxide straight out of seawater to save the oceansthebrighterside.news - Joseph ShavitAs carbon dioxide continues to build up in the Earth’s atmosphere, research teams around the world have spent years seeking ways to remove the gas …
AvatarMarkB SmithAvatarAvatarElon Musk lashes out at the ChatGPT sensation he helped create after Microsoft’s massive investment —‘Not what i intended’verified_publisherFortune - Christiaan HetznerElon Musk, who once fought in court for the right to call himself cofounder of Tesla, just disowned one of his most famous creations. The entrepreneur …
AvatarMarkB SmithAvatarAvatarAn enormous Martian cloud returns every spring. Scientists found out why.verified_publisherMashable - Elisha SauersWhat's causing this natural wonder on the Red Planet? A cloud longer than California streaks across Mars' ruddy cheek. It looks as though an impressionist painter loaded his palette knife with white and scraped a line across the canvas as far as the oily paint would travel. This is not what …
AvatarMarkB SmithAvatarAvatar107 years on, we are still testing Einstein’s theory of gravity — the results are getting weirdInverse - by The Conversation, Kazuya Koyama and Levon PogosianGo big or go home. Everything in the universe has gravity — and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that …
AvatarMarkB SmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDark Matter as an Intergalactic Heat Sourceaps.orgSpectra from quasars suggest that intergalactic gas may have been heated by a form of dark matter called dark photons. Dense gas clouds across the …
AvatarMarkB SmithAvatarAvatarMathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange SpacesQuanta Magazine - Leila SlomanRecent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. Fourteen years ago, …
AvatarMarkB SmithAvatarAvatarSofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last TimeWIRED - Ramin SkibbaAstronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes …
AvatarMarkB SmithFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDoes It Rain Diamond On Uranus And Neptune?worldatlas.com - Aidan RempleHere on Earth, we are used to the fact that it occasionally rains. Rain on Earth comes in the form of liquid water, and it is the only planet in our …