Paris (AFP) Oct 5, 2023
Last month was the hottest September on record by an "extraordinary" margin as the world flirts dangerously with breaching a key warming limit, the EU climate monitor said on Thursday. Much of the world sweltered through unseasonably warm weather in September, in a year expected to be the hottest in human history and after the warmest-ever global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere s

Evanston IL (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
A team led by Northwestern University researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers gave the system a simple prompt: Design a robot that can walk across a flat surface. While it took nature billions of years to evolve the first walking species, the new algorithm compressed evol

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
by David D. Nolte | Professor - Physics and Astronomy, Purdue On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: "near enough null." The note referred to the electrical resistance he'd measured during a landmark experiment that would later be credited as the discovery of superconductivity. But first, he

The European Space Agency ESA and Axiom Space signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 1 October in Paris to explore collaborative opportunities in human spaceflight, science, technology, and commercialisation.

Space Coast FL (SPX) Oct 06, 2023
Amazon's expansive ambitions to delve into satellite-based broadband have taken a concrete form. On October 6, 2023, the e-commerce behemoth successfully launched KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2, the initial pair of its projected constellation of more than 3,200 satellites. The launch, executed from Launch Pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, utilized the reliable United Launch Alliance Atl