SAN FRANCISCO – In high school, all Pablo Nava Barrera knew about Nvidia was that it made the graphics card inside his video game computer. But when the computer science sophomore at San José State University began looking for internships last fall, she discovered that the company’s chips were behind “generative” AI tools like ChatGPT… Read More »
(REUTERS) Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, the heaviest thing ever put into orbit, and the spacecraft that may one day carry humans to Mars, was falling back to Earth. It glowed with hot plasma created by the rapid plunge into the atmosphere. And then he disappeared. SpaceX’s video link, which until then had… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected common chemicals found in vinegar, ant stings and even margaritas around two young stars, according to NASA. The complex organic molecules they observed using the space observatory’s… Read More »
Screenshot of an Instagram post taken on March 13, 2024 It promotes a variety of CBD products on its website and encourages people to follow the paleo diet, a controversial meat-focused eating plan that gained popularity in the United States in the early 2010s. The phenomenon is misleading in comparing the carbon footprint of plant-based… Read More »
Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, founded in 2016, aims to place a piece of technology in people’s brains that will allow them to control a computer or phone just by thinking. This is otherwise known as brain-computer interface. Neuralink, which has been experimenting on animals for years, recently announced that one of its devices was implanted… Read More »
Jon Carmichael took what is considered one of the most striking photographs of the solar eclipse. But taking photos of your dreams wasn’t child’s play. Here he retells his story and what he did differently during this year’s total solar eclipse. This article as described is based on a conversation with an astrophotographer. Jon Carmichael.… Read More »
The progress science has made in the last 400 years is staggering. Who would have thought that we could trace the history of our universe back to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased the length and quality of our lives, and technology, commonplace in the modern world, seemed like magic to our… Read More »
Two viewers stand atop the Carroll Rim Trail in the Painted Hills near Mitchell, Oregon, during the 2017 total solar eclipse. (Adrees Latif/Reuters – image source) For David Makepeace, falling in love with eclipses was a pure coincidence. The year was 1991. She was 28 years old and in love with a young travel agent… Read More »
Tigers once inhabited the Eurasian continent, from the Caspian Sea to the Russian Far East and south to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali. However, today they live in only 10 countries and occupy a very small part of their former habitat. Habitat loss remains a constant threat. That’s why conservationists worked with… Read More »