The New York Times defines the solar wind as “a million-miles-per-hour stream of electrons, protons and other charged particles rushing outward into the solar system.” Now CNN reports that the Parker Solar Probe “has uncovered the source of solar wind.” As the probe came within about 13 million miles (20.9 Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One of Alphabet’s Waymo autonomous cars has killed a pet dog. TechCrunch spotted the public report of the incident, which says one of the Waymo Jaguar I-Pace cars ran over a dog in San Francisco while in autonomous mode with a Read more…
Charlie Brooker, the showrunner of “Black Mirror,” revealed in an interview that he used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write an episode for the show’s sixth season but deemed the results “shit.” Gizmodo reports: “I’ve toyed around with ChatGPT a bit. The first thing I did was type ‘generate Black Mirror episode’ Read more…
Factory construction in the United States has experienced significant growth, with construction spending by manufacturers more than doubling over the past year. For April 2023, the annual rate reached nearly $190 billion compared with $90 billion in June 2022, with manufacturing accounting for around 13% of non-government construction. […] Factories Read more…
Octopuses have found an incredible way to protect the more delicate features of their nervous system against radically changing temperatures. When conditions fluctuate, they can rapidly recode key proteins in their nerve cells, ensuring critical neurological activities remain functional when temperatures drop dramatically. How do they do it? By deploying Read more…
“A shroud of smoke has sent solar power generation in parts of the eastern US plummeting by more than 50% as wildfires rage in Canada,” reports Bloomberg. “Solar farms powering New England were producing 56% less energy at times of peak demand compared with the week before, according to the Read more…
New research suggests that Arctic summer sea ice could melt almost completely by the 2030s, a decade earlier than previously projected, even with significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions. “We are very quickly about to lose the Arctic summer sea-ice cover, basically independent of what we are doing,” Dirk Notz, a Read more…