A freeze-frame captures a drone exploding, disabling a Russian Tu-95 bomber during Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb, a covert drone attack in June. Ukraine's surprise attack unleashed small drones armed with explosives to destroy dozens of unprotected…
The four Artemis II astronauts did a dress rehearsal in December for what will happen on launch day. Clockwise from front left are pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist Christina Koch and commander Reid Wiseman.…
Credit: ACS Nano (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c12759Topics: Applied Physics, Battery, Chemistry, Graphene, History, Materials Science, NanomaterialsWhat do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim…
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Exoplanets, NASA When we imagine a planet, we think of one like ours, orbiting a star.…
Topics: Computer Modeling, Mathematics, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Theoretical Physics The concept of a fourth dimension is so elusive and mysterious that many of us find it almost impossible to comprehend. But could an additional layer of spatial…
Topics: Astronautics, Astrophysics, Moonbase, NASA One of the key challenges in building and sustaining a permanent settlement on the moon, as in 2001: A Space Odyssey, is finding a reliable and economical means of transporting essential resources,…
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, Modern Physics, Superconductors It’s one of the most stubborn open questions of modern physics: What’s the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity? All superconductors need some way of…
Breakthrough discovery in plants’ DNA may lead to slowing the aging process in humans, Sandee LaMotte, CNN, November 18, 2019 Topics: Biology, Civics, Civil Rights, Entropy, History, Philosophy My last post on this site was on my birthday this…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Economics, Education, ExistentialismCarrie Buck and her mother (left panel) were both labelled as “feebleminded,” shorthand for unintelligent and undesirable. In the 1927 the Supreme Court case,…
Why is Plato's Allegory of the Cave Still Relevant? Source: A Change For Better Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Civics, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism This is another conversation with Claude.ai that I found enlightening. It…
Source: https://youtu.be/m9DmPRO4MPQ?si=PEyFXaHMGP2Wb9-j Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Civilization, Existentialism, Philosophy To Claude.ai: "What is the likely outcome of the United States and Israel attacking the nation of Iran on suspicion of…
Topics: Civilization, Existentialism, Nanoengineering, Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics, Star Trek As an undergraduate Engineering Physics major, science classes disabuse you of notions that science fiction might leave you with. "2001" was released in…
Image source: University of Central Florida Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Computer Modeling, Computer Science I was intrigued by a Medium article using Claude.ai that posed a question: "You are a member of the United States…