NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve....
"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the prospects of extraterrestrial life in its ocean."...
Article URL: https://www.lr.org/en/knowledge/press-room/press-listing/press-release/2026/alarm-overload-is-undermining-safety-at-sea-as-new-research-shows-crews-face-tens-of-thousands-of-daily-alerts/...
Hi HN! We're Kamran, Raaid, Laith, and Omeed from Constellation Space. We built an AI system that predicts satellite link failures before they happen ( https://youtu.be/069V9fADAtM ). Between us, we'v...
Regina Lark helped her 89-year-old mom declutter. Courtesy of Regina Lark Regina Lark owns an organizing business that often works with older adults. Last year, she helped her mom downsize from a home...
Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least 4 million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into the ...
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate...
I saw a tweet that tinygrad is so good that you could make a graphics library that wraps tg. So I’ve been hacking on a gtinygrad, and honestly it convinced me it could be used for legit research. The ...
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different....
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-dinosaur.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683969 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Parents of autistic children are clamoring for a prescription vitamin promoted by federal health officials. But there's little evidence the drug will help. (Image credit: Inna Kot/iStock)...
For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful....
From the Upside Down through the Devil's Anus and beyond. Here are 6 times these theoretical wormholes turned up in sci-fi shows and movies....
Article URL: https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-study-finds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749198 Points: 5 #...
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-massive-medieval-cargo-ship-thats-the-largest-vessel-of-its-kind-ever-found-180987984/ Comments URL: https:...
Article URL: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/ Comments URL: http...
I built NukeCast because I’ve always wanted a tool that answers one question fast. If it happened today, where would the fallout plumes go and where would you drive to get out of it. NukeCast uses wea...
Send Help opens in theaters on January 30. I’m really shooting myself in the foot here, but I feel compelled to open with a statement which itself constitutes a fulsome review of Send Help, and I’d to...