Mark Zuckerberg’s company insisted it had not used the audio firm's vibration tech and would appeal the jury’s verdict.

For the UK and Europe, the rollout of 6G is creating a geopolitical dilemma.

It hasn’t been reviewed yet, but we have a new paper out on the arXiv led by my colleague Danny Dixon: We present COBALT-BLUE, a fast public model for the...

An interesting idea. If the supernova that created the Crab Nebula also created a gamma ray burst, that could explain apparent widespread radiation sickness...

Photometric Colors and a Rotational Modulation of HD 38451, McMaster, Adam, Norton, Andrew J., Dickinson, Hugh J.

President Donald Trump on Sunday provided a new reason behind his proposal to build a 250-foot triumphal arch directly across Arlington National Cemetery, saying the structure would double as a “top g...

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

NATS, the UK's major provider of air traffic services, said the software defect led to corrupted data which affected flight data updates, requiring restrictions.

Meltdown that grounded thousands of flights caused by ‘spurious’ flight data being entered into system, report says

We’re going with a classic this week, the Argument from Authority: An argument from authority … is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority...

There’s a recent article by Natalie B. Hogg, Agentic research is oxymoronic, arguing that research is only research if the interpretation of the results is...

An interesting idea. A neutron star surrounded by a dark matter halo which is dense enough (but not too dense) could form an event horizon while staying a...

Alfredo Carpineti makes the bold argument that we should not fire them into the Sun: It is not surprising to see people wishing to catapult those...

I missed this in the news until it was posted by Peter Coles: Three days ago the latest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham, gave a...

Despite the public persona, Hawking was not a nice person. The Guardian has a review of a recent book which has more details and is worth reading. I found...

I’m trying something new. A different logical fallacy every Friday. Let’s start with the historical fallacy, which applies any time someone interprets the...

The Swift spacecraft is unlikely to make it to the end of the year, but that’s not stopping them from carrying on with their work: NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift...

They haven’t been instructed to do this. Wild: I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be...

Generating random numbers is a perennial problem in computer science. Apparently muons could be a good source of entropy for this: We demonstrate, for the...

As someone who works on stellar photometry, what’s good for exoplanets is good for me: The Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror is 2.4 meters (7.9 feet)...

The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is launching soon. Space.com has an article about the spy satellite origins of the satellite. I like this part about...

Reading the Wikipedia page for Nancy Roman, after whom the Roman Space Telescope is named: At a lecture by Harold Urey at NASA, Roman was approached by Jack...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the crater created by SpaceX rocket: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) photographed the fresh...

Every year some variation of the article Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning does the rounds at the start of summer. As useful as it is to know what it...

It was reclassified as a dwarf planet 20 years ago today: On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced it had re-classified...

"This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting."

The Zooniverse citizen science platform just hit a billion classifications from their volunteers: This milestone belongs to everyone who has contributed...

I recently mentioned that people can form whole ideas at once before starting to put a sentence together, unlike LLMs. Nature has an article about how...

Some stars are too big to make black holes.

We often hear how LLMs require such large resources that they’re building massive data centres which use unholy amounts of both electricity and water. It’s...