"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to even...
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398666 Points: 7 # Comments: 0...
Constellations, planets, a waxing moon and more grace the night sky this New Year's Eve....
Article URL: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443486 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Don't miss January's Wolf Moon rise over the eastern horizon tonight, as the first full moon of 2026....
Rippling's CPO said he prefers to understaff than overstaff all his projects. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Rippling's product chief Matt MacInnis says he deli...
Article URL: https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/100-percent-lisp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460394 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX After one of its Starlink satellites exploded and another narrowly avoided colliding with a Chinese satellite, SpaceX says it will lower...
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
There are billions of dollars in it for companies able to kickstart mining operations, even if such returns are still years away....
Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444020 Points: 8 # Comments: 1...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos....
Article URL: https://www.unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412210 Points: 6 # Comments: 1...
Hi HN, I’m a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
Altcoins lagged Bitcoin in 2025, but XRP, Zcash and Algorand outperformed on regulatory clarity, privacy demand and tokenization....
Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...
The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies...
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/obituaries/inge-lehmann-overlooked.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46360080 Points: 10 # Comments: 1...
Man is returning to the moon - and with him old rivalries and new ambitions. Europe wants to have its say; Germany wants to be at the forefront. A historic opportunity beckons for Berlin....