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Astronomers Were Watching a Black Hole When...

December 21, 2024

Woah. Blast Radius In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some 55 million light-years away — also let out a massive belch of gamma rays while scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope team, an international collaboration combining data from sensors around the globe, were getting a closer look. The campaign gathered data from 25...

How Feminism Can Guide Climate Change Action

December 21, 2024

This year is projected to be the hottest on record. The latest United Nations estimates indicate that, without radical and immediate action, we are headed toward an increasingly unlivable planet with an increase of up to 3.1 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Solving the climate crisis requires urgent, global cooperation. But the yearly global climate meeting (called the Conference of the Parties, or COP) held in November in the petrostate of Azerbaijan upheld the status quo,...

Inside a Chaotic Nebula

December 21, 2024

NASA, ESA, STScI / AURA Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: inside a chaotic nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across, seen here by Hubble in 2011. It lies 2,000 light-years away, in a relatively isolated region of the Milky Way galaxy. A massive young star is responsible for the furious activity we see inside the nebula. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from the central star. A...

There's a Scandal Growing About That Paper...

December 21, 2024

Image by Getty / Futurism Remember that huge panic around black spatulas? It turns out that the whole thing may have just been a crock of crap. A study published in October contended that kitchenware made of black plastics, and especially utensils like spatulas, contained alarmingly high amounts of toxic flame retardants due to the recycled materials they were sourced from. It almost immediately caused a major scare, and articles published everywhere from The New York Times to CNN...

There's a Major Problem With the Nuclear...

December 21, 2024

“Bunkers are, in fact, not a tool to survive a nuclear war.” Truth Bomb As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they’re little more than a psychological defense mechanism for wealthy people who want to feel a shred of control in an unpredictable world. As the Associated Press reports, the bunker business was worth $137 million last year and is slated to grow to $175 million by the end of the decade, per...

Scientists Suggest Harvesting Blood From Mars Colonists...

December 21, 2024

One crew member collecting blood for 72 weeks could be enough to “construct a small habitat for another crew member.” Blood Drive Future space travelers will have to get creative to build structures on the surface of Mars. Sending all the necessary construction materials across over 140 million miles of space wouldn’t just be a gargantuan undertaking, but it would be prohibitively expensive as well. Instead, scientists have long proposed making use of the existing Martian soil to construct...

Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started...

December 21, 2024

Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until five or six in the morning. He fueled this with a lot of alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine (the latter a habit shared by many of his actors). While working on “Taxi Driver,” he would stuff a pistol under his pillow when he eventually did go to sleep. At other...

With Utter Self-Seriousness, Maker of Oreos Admits...

December 21, 2024

I have no mouth and I must eat. Flavor Discovery The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Mondelez — the processed food behemoth that manufactures Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Clif Bars, and other popular snacks — has developed a new AI tool to dream up new flavors for its brands. Used in more than 70 of the company’s products, the company says the machine...

The Electric Explorer’s Nightmare Launch Shows Everything...

December 21, 2024

The all-electric Ford Explorer has had a tough time of it. Back in 2022, WIRED was invited to a secret look at the Europe-only, all-electric Explorer which the company had been working on for some time. In March of 2023, the wraps were finally taken off, and it was announced that the US might get a version of the midsize crossover too, such was the enthusiastic response of dealers stateside to the winning design. A brand-new factory was opened...

Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on...

December 21, 2024

If Google’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some of the promotional partnerships that helped thrust Google search front and center into Americans’ lives. In a US federal court filing on Friday, Google proposed a series of restrictions that for three years would bar the company from requiring its device manufacturer, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to their US...

Florida Man in Trouble for Shooting Walmart...

December 21, 2024

Shoot first, pay damages later. Buzz Off Lest we forget that losing our minds about suspicious aircraft was an American tradition long before this current spate of drone hysteria, a Florida man has been ordered to pay $5,000 to Walmart after shooting one of the retail giant’s drones that he thought was spying on him, First Coast News reports. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, the saga played out back in June, when police...

A New School Will Teach Children Use...

December 21, 2024

Why does this feel like it’s going to go horrendously wrong? Classroom War Class is in session, kids. Only the teacher’s not in attendance. On Monday, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools approved an application for an unorthodox virtual academy. Its selling point? There are no traditional human instructors. Instead, the bulk of the lessons will be handled by an AI program, KJZZ reports. The establishment, Unbound School, is part of a network of charter schools that also operate...

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Fly Through Sun

December 21, 2024

Godspeed. Time for a Tan Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun — or through its outer layers, depending on how you look at the maneuver — in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star’s megahot winds, Ars Technica reports. Ever since it launched in 2018, the diminutive spacecraft, which weighs less than a ton, has been performing flybys of our star at record-breaking speeds. But...

Experts Startled as Teens Stop Doing Drugs

December 21, 2024

Image by Getty / Futurism Experts are mighty puzzled after finding that teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. In the latest update from the University of Michigan’s half-century-long Monitoring the Future study, the school announced that its researchers found a trend of “historically large decreases” in adolescent drug use has only broadened in 2024. Richard Miech, the study’s team lead, said he was surprised by the findings. “I expected adolescent drug use would rebound at least...

Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots...

December 20, 2024

Try taking a picture of each of North America’s roughly 11,000 tree species, and you’ll have a mere fraction of the millions of photos within nature image datasets. These massive collections of snapshots — ranging from butterflies to humpback whales — are a great research tool for ecologists because they provide evidence of organisms’ unique behaviors, rare conditions, migration patterns, and responses to pollution and other forms of climate change. While comprehensive, nature image datasets aren’t yet as useful as they could...

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