NASA Lands Ingenuity, the First Ever Mars Helicopter
Very early this morning, NASA flew a small drone helicopter that its latest rover had…
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Want to Get Along With Robots? Pretend They’re Animals
WIRED: I wanted to talk about navigating relationships with home or companion robots, especially when…
Mathematicians Settle the Erdős Coloring Conjecture
In the fall of 1972, Vance Faber was a new professor at the University of…
We’re Starting to See How Covid PPE Litter Affects Wildlife
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration….
A Pause on J&J, Preparation for Booster Shots, and More News
The pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine continues, the CEO of Pfizer talks boosters,…
Physicists have created a new and extremely rare kind of uranium
By Leah Crane False-colour scanning transmission electron micrograph of uranium atoms DR MITSUO OHTSUKI/SCIENCE PHOTO…
Archaeologists Unearth a ‘Lost Golden City’ in Egypt
A team of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed what some describe as an industrial royal metropolis…
What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep
Fruit flies, octopuses, birds, and humans don’t seem to have much in common. Some live…
Pausing the J&J Vaccine Was Easy. Unpausing Will Be Hard
The public health world was ready for something like this. They just didn’t know what…
The Humble Shrub That’s Predicting a Terrible Fire Season
“I think the forest fire risk this year is going to be about as high…