Scientists believe that Earth briefly lost protection from the sun about two million years ago and had to endure the extreme environment of interstellar space as the solar system passed through a dense cloud of gas and dust between the stars. At that time, early human ancestors shared our planet with prehistoric animals such as … Read more
Credit: NASA/Ryan Fitzgibbons What do you give to an ocean that has everything? This year, in celebration of National Ocean Month, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite is giving us a unique look at our home planet. The visualizations created using data from the satellite, which was launched on February 8, are already … Read more
An upstart challenger to cloud computing giants Amazon and Microsoft is using its alliance with Nvidia to turn artificial intelligence chips into a “new asset class” and raise billions of dollars. New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which was founded in 2017 by former energy traders as a cryptocurrency miner, raised $8.6 billion in debt and equity last … Read more
Image caption, Artwork: It took over twenty years to get Earthcare into space Item information An advanced joint European-Japanese satellite has been launched to measure how clouds affect the climate. Some low-altitude clouds are known to cool the planet, while others at high altitudes act like a blanket. The Earthcare mission will use a laser … Read more