NASA’s Viking was the first American spacecraft to land on Mars, sending back images of craters, massive volcanoes and giant canyons from its surface. In the 1970s, NASA launched two identical robots — Viking 1 and Viking 2, each equipped with landers and orbiters — to the Red Planet. After the mission, NASA reported that … Read more
One of the major questions that has occupied Earth scientists over the past decade is, “What’s going on down there?” Beneath your feet, some 3,400 miles deep, lies the Earth’s inner core. It’s nearly the size of the moon, as hot as the surface of the sun, and helps maintain the planet’s magnetic field, which … Read more
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are replacing healthy diets ‘around the world’ despite growing evidence of the risks they pose and should be sold with warnings similar to those of tobacco products, according to the food scientist who first coined the term invented. Prof Carlos Monteiro from the University of São Paulo will highlight the increasing danger … Read more
Plants have been observed interacting with the environment in ways that scientists claim are conscious. Paco Calvo, a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, has been researching plant intelligence and problem solving for years. He found that the mimosa “seems to learn from experience” when it stops folding. “In psychology that is the … Read more
Plants have been observed interacting with the environment in ways that scientists claim are conscious. Paco Calvo, a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, has been researching plant intelligence and problem solving for years. He found that the mimosa “seems to learn from experience” when it stops folding. “In psychology that is the … Read more
Visiting The Colbert Report in 2013, the eponymous host asked NASA scientist Ed Stone if he was ever annoyed by the fact that the agency’s astronauts received all the parades and fanfare while researchers worked behind the scenes. “No,” Stone replied, “we’re having too much fun.” Stone even served as chief scientist for the space … Read more
Ed Stone, the scientist who spent 50 years leading NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who started on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions … Read more
Stone took the lead in tailoring the peer-review process to the faster pace of the mission’s planetary encounters: In the early afternoon, after the data was collected, teams of scientists decided what they thought would be their best results for that day they were and held firm. their conclusions for feedback to the entire science … Read more
When Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft Research, was asked to investigate the data privacy issues caused by Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker’s poorly received self-monitoring tool brushed aside the concerns. Teevan spoke Wednesday with Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, at the fifth anniversary conference of the American … Read more
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time to a Jewish molecular biologist named Elena Zhukova. Murdoch, 93, who is not Jewish, married Zhukova, 67, the former mother-in-law of Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich. The couple married on Saturday in a ceremony at Murdoch’s wine estate in Bel Air, California. His media company News … Read more