Science

James Webb Telescope finds carbon source on Jovian moon Europa

Why it matters: Carbon is one of the primary building blocks of life as we know it. Therefore, the detection of carbon signs on celestial bodies other than Earth is always a significant discovery. Thanks to JWST's powerful instruments, scientists now have evidence that carbon should be abundant on one of the most promising targets for extraterrestrial life research.

NASA spacecraft successfully delivers sample of asteroid to Earth

Supermassive black holes eat gas and dust in mere months, 3D simulation suggests

In context: Supermassive black holes are among the most extreme phenomena that humans have discovered in outer space. They possess a mass hundreds of thousands, or even millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and they are responsible for powering unprecedented luminous events known as quasars.

Noctalgia: Astronomers new term to describe the emotional impact of light pollution

Neuralink is recruiting patients to test brain-computer interface

Large Hadron Collider needed a new database system to sustain its petabyte-hungry experiments

NASA releases photo of a baby star that will grow up to be like our Sun

Earth is now outside most of the "planetary boundaries" under which human civilization emerged

US government is renting out GPU power at half price for a limited time

TL;DR: Private companies are in desperate need for additional GPU computing capabilities to train their new generative AI services, yet they are encountering significant challenges in obtaining them. In contrast, researchers involved in US supercomputing projects currently have access to potent Nvidia GPU nodes at a substantial discount, albeit for a limited time.

Potentially the world's largest lithium deposit has been found in a US volcano

NASA generates enough oxygen on Mars for a small dog to breathe for ten hours

CalTech's autonomous drone that can fly, roll, and walk might be the next Mars rover

Is aluminosilicate glass the "strongest glass ever?"

Large Hadron Collider experiments detect the first "man-made" neutrinos

RoboMapper can drastically speed up solar cell research

Methane-eating bacterium strain could help mitigate global warming

Scientists recreate Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" using patient brainwaves and AI

Russian space agency confirms its LUNA-25 mission crashed on the lunar surface

Worldwide scientific collaboration finds LK-99 is not a room-temperature superconductor

New silicon-based "metasurfaces" can rapidly detect toxins, viruses, cancer, and other diseases

NASA will test laser communication to speed up data transmission in space

Forward-looking: The US space agency will soon send a new, experimental laser communication technology into space that is expected to show potential data transmission rates that are 10 to 100 times the speed of current state-of-the-art radio systems. The device is installed aboard the Psyche spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than October 5, 2023.

MIT spin-off inches closer to commercializing liquid metal battery technology

July 2023 was the Earth's hottest month on record as more regions feel the effects of global warming

Scientists repeat nuclear fusion net gain in significant step toward clean energy

NASA now believes our galaxy is home to trillions - not billions - of rogue planets