What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our space neighborhood....
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When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our space neighborhood....
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-record Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659913 Points: 8 # Comments: 2...
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
i've been working with healthcare/biobank data and keep thinking about what "data moats" mean now that llms can ingest anything. some a16z piece from 2019 said moats were eroding — now the question se...
We figured out how to turn protein function on and off, with magnetic fields from small handheld magnets. More context here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00204-9 Comments URL: https://ne...
Here in France, as well as countries including Hungary, Greenland and Germany, some residents have been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the northern lights. These vibrant scenes are the result of t...
Chinese researchers have completed a full end-to-end simulation of the Chinese Space Station Telescope's observing systems, offering a preview of how the powerful scope will survey the universe....
Shanghai-based Harbour BioMed’s acquisition of a stake in US-based Spruce Biosciences is the latest example of China’s novel drug developers progressing from one-time licensing deals into long-lasting...
This past week in San Francisco, thousands gathered outside of an aquarium to celebrate one of its residents, an alligator named Claude who died in December....
3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system....
NASA has ended Crew-11's space stay a few weeks early due to a "lingering risk" to an astronaut's health. The crew is now on its way back to Earth....
NASA carried out its first medical evacuation from the International Space Station after an astronaut required care, bringing four crew members back to Earth earlier than planned. The early return tem...
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...