Robot suicide: ‘Depressed’ cyborg hurls itself down flight of stairs- Washington Examiner
– A robot working for the Gumi City Council in South Korea apparently committed suicide by hurling itself down a flight of stairs. – The robot was found at the bottom of the stairs unresponsive and damaged. City officials are investigating what happened. – Local media speculated that the robot may have been overworked or […]
Vietnam’s VinFast looks to tiny EV, priced at less than $10,000, to change its fortunes
Vietnamese automaker VinFast is struggling to sell enough cars to keep its factories running profitably. It hopes its new tiny electric vehicle, the VF3 mini-SUV, will boost sales. The VF3 has a starting price of $9,200 and is only about 10 feet long, aimed at first-time car buyers in Vietnam and other Asian markets. VinFast […]
China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe returned to Earth on Tuesday, bringing back the first samples ever collected from the Moon’s far side. The robotic lander landed in Inner Mongolia after a 53-day mission to a crater near the Moon’s south pole. It collected soil and rock samples using a drill and robotic arm. Retrieving samples from […]
A big boost for a climate solution: electricity made from the heat of the Earth
A power company in California called Southern California Edison has signed a deal to purchase electricity from a geothermal energy project in Utah being developed by the company Fervo Energy. This will be one of the largest new geothermal power developments in the US, producing 400 megawatts of electricity, enough to power around 400,000 homes. […]
‘The early universe is nothing like we expected’: James Webb telescope reveals ‘new understanding’ of how galaxies formed at cosmic dawn
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what may be the earliest star clusters in the universe within a galaxy called the Cosmic Gems arc. The Cosmic Gems arc formed 460 million years after the Big Bang and appears arc-shaped when viewed from Earth due to gravitational lensing from a foreground galaxy. This lensing effect […]
Physicists Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi
Mathematicians Aninda Sinha and Arnab Priya Saha from the Indian Institute of Science accidentally discovered a new way to represent the mathematical constant pi (π) while studying particle collisions in quantum field theory. Though pi’s value has not changed, their work provides an alternative series representation that expresses pi as a combination of components in […]
Supermassive black hole winds blowing at 36 million miles per hour can sculpt entire galaxies
Scientists have discovered supermassive black hole winds blowing at speeds up to 36 million miles per hour (58 million km/h). The winds were detected coming from the quasar SBS 1408+544, located 13 billion light years away. By observing the quasar over 8 years, the researchers noticed shifts in the spectrum of light being absorbed by […]
Ed Stone, who led NASA’s iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at 88
Ed Stone, a pioneering NASA scientist who served as the project scientist for the iconic Voyager missions from 1972 to 2022, passed away on June 9th at age 88. Stone led the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft on their “Grand Tour” of the outer planets from 1977 to 1989, making many discoveries. The probes continued […]
How neutron stars ‘playing it cool’ could unlock exotic physics
Scientists have discovered 3 neutron stars that have cooled down surprisingly fast, providing new insights into the exotic physics inside these dense stars. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars, containing over 1.4 times the mass of our Sun compressed into a tiny sphere about 12 miles wide. Their interiors possess some of […]
NASA Is Launching an ‘Artificial Star’ Into Orbit Around Earth. Here’s Why.
NASA is launching a mini satellite called CubeSat into orbit around Earth in 2029. From its orbital distance of about 22,000 miles, it will appear fixed in the night sky like an “artificial star”. The satellite, called Landolt, is about the size of a breadbox. It will fire lasers that astronomers can use to calibrate […]