SpaceX Is Hiring — and Elon Musk Says He’ll Read Your Application
Elon Musk is on the hunt for top talent. Loading audio narration… SpaceX’s AI division is hiring engineers…
Accurate and fast event-based shape measurement of mixed reflectance scenes
Principles In our proposed approach, we tightly integrate event-based triangulation and deflectometry to simultaneously scan all surface types…
Reducing Plastic Pollution at Scale
In 2018, the Norwegian government proposed classifying plastic as potentially hazardous waste under the Basel Convention. Following broad…
Why Researchers Are Studying House Dust in Space
While some researchers are looking at toys, others are looking under your couch. The National Institute of Standards…
Physicists finally solve the strange mystery of “breathing” lasers
An international team of researchers, including a scientist from Aston University, has developed a new mathematical framework that…
The moon shines with a swarm of stars on May 21 as Jupiter, Venus and Mercury line up nearby
Look west after sunset tonight (May 21) to see the crescent moon shining alongside the Beehive Cluster in…
What If the Direction of a Magnet Could Shape the Building Blocks of Life?
Insider Brief Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science found that the direction…
Blood glycome possibly predicts lifespan
What if a routine blood test could reveal the long-term risk of death, not by measuring cholesterol or…
SpaceX reveals plans for what could be biggest-ever initial public offering
The world’s richest man has announced plans for one of the biggest sales of stock to the public…
Rainfall around Antarctica is rising far faster than models suggest
Climate scientists studying the Southern Ocean rely on a computer reconstruction called ERA5 – a dataset built from…
The astronauts on the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day, and the question of when to sleep, when to pray, and when to celebrate birthdays has caused genuine philosophical problems for every space agency that has ever sent humans up there
Astronauts have described watching a sunrise from the cupola of the International Space Station, and then, before finishing…
Jupiter’s lightning may be 100x more powerful than Earth’s
Jupiter is famous for its enormous storms, some of which have been raging for centuries. Now, scientists have…