Scientists have linked a sharp rise in the ground in southern Poland to a buried crack in the Earth that once tore open.
That finding shows powerful earthquakes hit the area thousands of years ago, even though recent records make it seem calm and…

Scientists have linked a sharp rise in the ground in southern Poland to a buried crack in the Earth that once tore open.
That finding shows powerful earthquakes hit the area thousands of years ago, even though recent records make it seem calm and…

Even when asked to rely on expert knowledge, popular AI programs still create images and stories of Neanderthals, an extinct human relative who lived in Europe and parts of Asia tens of thousands of years ago, that look like outdated museum…


The United States has over 700,000 miles of public sewer pipes, enough to wrap around the Earth 28 times. Every day, people flush billions of gallons of wastewater into the sprawling subterranean system.
This is joined by rainwater,…

Out on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a group of scientists spent weeks living in tents on wind-packed snow, working shifts day and night.
They weren’t searching for wildlife or claiming territory – they were drilling deep beneath…

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On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle about the Dragonfly mission, its origins,…

Scientists have built a “thermodynamic computer” that can produce images from random disturbances in data, that is, noise. In doing so, they have mimicked the generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities of neural networks —…

The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information direct studies could provide would be…