Sam Altman says we could soon have “high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces.” OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computers, heightening the rivalry between the two billionaire entrepreneurs. The new venture, called Merge Labs,…
This will be the first national security mission to fly on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An…
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC. Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta are reeling from a deadly shooting that unfolded Friday evening. The shooting left one local police officer dead, at least four agency buildings riddled with bullet…
“Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that’s no longer an assumption we can make.” It’s easier than ever to manipulate video footage to deceive the viewer and increasingly difficult for fact checkers to detect such manipulations. Cornell University scientists developed a new weapon in…
Gulf of Maine will be site of safety and effectiveness testing. Later this summer, a fluorescent reddish-pink spiral will bloom across the Wilkinson Basin in the Gulf of Maine, about 40 miles northeast of Cape Cod. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will release the nontoxic water tracer…
A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life. The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It’s one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish…
It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract. Most adhesives can’t stick to wet surfaces because water and other fluids disrupt the adhesive’s bonding mechanisms. This problem, though, has been beautifully solved by evolution in remora suckerfish, which use an adhesive disk…
The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force. When a Spinosaurus attacked a T. rex in Jurassic Park III, both giant carnivores tried to finish the fight with one powerful bite of their bone-crushing jaws. The Spinosaurus won, because when the movie was…
In Colombia, the parasites were caught expanding into endangered wild mountain tapirs. Texas is gearing up for war as a savage, flesh-eating fly appears poised for a US invasion and is expanding its range of victims. On Friday, the Texas Department of Agriculture announced the debut of TDA Swormlure,…
Move comes in response to government’s questioning of climate science. The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of…
