How to View the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3

Next month, the Earth will come between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to take on an eerie reddish hue. [...]

Artemis II Astronauts Are Using iPhones to Capture Stunning Space Images

After smartphones were cleared by NASA for space missions, the crew members of the Integrity spacecraft are beaming back lots of iPhone photos. [...]

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids. [...]

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a [...]

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

The researchers say the data could be retrieved from the glass in 10,000 years. [...]

Scientists crack the case of "screeching" Scotch tape

Micro-cracks travel along the peeling tape at supersonic speeds, producing shock waves and sound pulses. [...]

Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 — and that license change may matter more than benchmarks

For the past two years, enterprises evaluating open-weight models have faced an awkward trade-off. Google's Gemma line consistently delivered strong performance, but its custom license — with u [...]

Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar

Our view of Neanderthal life keeps getting more complex and vibrant. [...]

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident. [...]