2025-02-24

A Jumping Lunar Robot Is About to Explore a Pitch-Black Moon Crater for the First Time

Packed with instruments and rovers, the soon-to-launch IM-2 mission will explore the lunar south pole and attempt something never done before—to enter a shadowed moon crater to look for ice. [...]

2025-02-24

Anthropic’s new Claude model can think both fast and slow

Another week, and there's another new AI model ready for public use. This time, it's Anthropic with the introduction of Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The company describes its latest release as the mar [...]

2025-02-24

2025 Is a Year Full of Meteor Showers: The Next One Arrives This Week

You don't need to pay for a streaming service to watch a sky full of shooting stars. [...]

2025-02-24

COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death

Researchers recommend kids stay up to date on the COVID vaccines. [...]

2025-02-23

Intuitive Machines is expected to launch its second lunar lander this week

Intuitive Machines, the company that pulled off the first-ever commercial moon landing this time last year with its Odysseus spacecraft, is gearing up for another shot at touching the lunar surface. I [...]

2025-02-23

In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

Senate Republicans flagged thousands of grants as “woke DEI” research. What does that really mean? [...]

2025-02-23

The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics. [...]

2025-02-23

Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark

The birds, known for their showy displays, look even more colorful than we thought. [...]

2025-02-22

The secretive X-37B space plane snapped this picture of Earth from orbit

It’s not every day that we get to see a glimpse of what a mysterious space plane is up to in orbit. This week, the US Space Force shared a picture it says was snapped last year by the X-37B, showing [...]