Artificial intelligence interfaced with the Large Hadron Collider can lead to higher precision in data analysis, which can improve measurements of fundamental physics properties and potentially lead to new discoveries. Credit: FermiLab A new machine learning technology tested by an international team of scientists including MIT Assistant Professor Philip Harris […]
Artwork: Europa Clipper will try to determine whether the moon can support biology NASA Scientists working on an audacious mission to the ocean world of Europa can proceed with the final design and construction of the spacecraft, Nasa says. The Europa Clipper mission will target the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, […]
Americans spent about $150 billion on cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine in 2016. This amount rivals what Americans spend on alcohol. The cannabis market was roughly the size of the cocaine and meth markets combined. Spending on cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine by Americans reached nearly $150 billion in 2016, […]
View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant water fluxes, leaf characteristics, and growth. Credit: Joao M. Rosa, AmazonFACE New study finds that insufficient nutrient supply has not been properly accounted for in ecosystem models. Agriculture, forestry, and other […]
Chandrayaan 2, or Moon Chariot 2, lifted off from India’s spaceport at Sriharikota in southern Andhra Pradesh state on July 22 India’s Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon. After four weeks in space, the craft […]
Lions once roamed Africa, Asia and Europe, but are now only found in parts of Africa and India. (Image: © Shutterstock) Lions are the second-largest cats in the world, after tigers. Known as the “king of beasts” or “king of the jungle,” these regal felines once roamed Africa, Asia and Europe, […]
Next year, the European Space Agency (ESA) will be sending the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet. This mission consists of an ESA-built rover (Rosalind Franklin) and a Russian-led surface science platform (Kazachok) that will study the Martian environment in order to characterize its surface, atmosphere, and determine whether or not […]
NASA/MIT/TESS When scientists go looking for life on distant exoplanets, they generally focus on rocky worlds the size of Earth. But most of these so-called super-Earths orbit, not yellow dwarfs like our sun, but red dwarfs—which are less than 60% the sun’s size. Now, astronomers report that such exoplanets might […]
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope discovered that exoplanet LHS 3844b probably lacks any atmosphere at all. (Credit: ESO/NASA) Rocky planets just a little larger than Earth are some of the best targets for finding life in our local cosmic neighborhood. They’re abundant. But it’s not just the size that […]
An illustration shows jets of matter launched from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. (Image: © NASA/ESA) Hot ionized gas is streaming out of the accretion disk of a supermassive black hole and slamming into its surroundings at a significant fraction of the speed of light. And this […]