Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Data Science

China’s up-to-date heavy-lift rocket looks very similar to a SpaceX spacecraft

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design of the country's first super-heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster....

Thousands of people clone their dead animals. This is the woman they call the first

Nine years ago a pair of newly weaned British Longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their up-to-date home in...

Quantum geometry existing beyond space and time

“It provides a natural structure, or accounting mechanism, for creating a very large number of Feynman diagrams,” he said Marcus Spradlina physicist from Brown...

How a PhD student discovered a lost Mayan city from hundreds of miles away

Recent May a city, lost for centuries in the dense jungle of southern Mexico, was discovered on the computer of a graduate student hundreds...

How scientists are using geospatial technology to discover secret graves in Mexico

In 2014, after following the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa normalists in Mexico, Silván and other CentroGeo specialists joined the scientific advisory board dealing with...

RFK Jr. wants to change the shape of American health policy. Good luck with that

According to Daniel Glickman, who served under President Bill Clinton, Kennedy's past makes him an unlikely candidate for agriculture secretary. “It's hard for me...

Lost Mayan city found thanks to laser mapping

Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been revealed. The discovery was made in the southeastern state of Campeche, and...

The UK is considering introducing novel smartphone bans for children

We know surprisingly little about the effects of smartphone bans in schools, says Sonia Livingstone, a professor at the London School of Economics who...