It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspirational leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn more The rapid AI video generation market has changed, again: Luma AI, a startup backed by famous Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, today announced the free public … Read more
HELSINKI – China’s experimental reusable space plane has used a smaller spacecraft to test proximity operations, even capturing the object. China launched its space plane for the third time via a Long March 2F rocket on December 14, 2023. The spacecraft launched an object into orbit, first cataloged by the US Space Force space field … Read more
The North Star of macroeconomic policy—the ideal point toward which fiscal and monetary measures are intended to take us—is an America where jobs are plentiful and prices rise by 2 percent a year. And we may have come to just that place. In May, the US economy added 272,000 jobs, far more than economists had … Read more
New research from Boston University and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute suggests that the Sun passed through a large hydrogen cloud two million years ago, directly impacting its protective heliosphere and may have forever changed all life on Earth. The evidence for this event and its effects on Earth’s climate also indicates that the location of … Read more
(This is CNBC Pro’s live coverage of Thursday’s analyst calls and Wall Street talks. Please refresh every 20-30 minutes to see the latest posts.) A semiconductor maker and a tech giant were among the stocks to which were discussed by analysts on Thursday. Analysts reacted to Broadcom’s latest quarterly results, which sent shares higher. Meanwhile, … Read more
Cracking and self-healing of peptide glass. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07408-x A team of materials scientists from Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, both in Israel, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology in the US, have discovered that mixing a certain peptide with water results in creating a … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The California Legislature signaled its intention Thursday to cancel a $400 million loan payment to help finance a longer life for the state’s last nuclear power plant, exposing a rift with the governor Gavin Newsom who says power is critical to maintaining energy supplies amid a rising climate. The votes in … Read more
A new science is emerging that promises to become the defining field of the 21st century. More than a narrow specialization, it is not just a new field, but a new way of doing science—a new way of organizing intellectual fields and endeavors. Given its wide influence, it goes by several names, but one that … Read more
The inner core began to slow down around 2010, moving slower than the Earth’s surface. Credit: USC A new study provides clear evidence that Earth’s inner core began to slow down around 2010. USC Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core is slowing down compared to the planet’s surface, a phenomenon that began around 2010 … Read more
Astronomers have spotted flashes and echoes coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). These “cosmic fireworks” and X-ray echoes can help scientists better understand the dark, quiet cosmic titan around which our galaxy orbits. The Michigan State University team of researchers made the groundbreaking discovery … Read more