We Are in the Golden Age of Bird-Watching
There has never been a better time to be or become a birder
We Are in the Golden Age of Bird-Watching
There has never been a better time to be or become a birder
After Months of Gibberish, Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again
NASA scientists spent months coaxing the 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft back into healthy communication
Woman Becomes First Person to Receive Both Pig Kidney Transplant and Heart Pump
A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever to receive a genetically modified pig kidney and the first person to receive a heart pump and a transplanted organ together
A Brief History of Automatons That Were Actually People
When human labor is hidden under the veneer of a robot or AI tool, that’s “fauxtomation”
The U.S. Spends a Fortune on Beach Sand That Storms Just Wash Away
The U.S. is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to replenish storm-ravaged beaches in a losing battle against rising seas and erosion
An Epitaph for Daniel Dennett, Philosopher of Consciousness
Is consciousness nothing more than an illusion? That idea defined the work of Daniel Dennett (1942–2024)
Quantum Computers Can Now Run Powerful AI That Works like the Brain
The influential AI design that makes chatbots tick now runs on quantum computers