Discoveries
AI #43: Functional Discoveries — LessWrong
We get innovation in functional search. In an even more functional search, we finally get a Nature paper submitted almost two years ago, in which AI discovered a new class of antibiotic. That’s pretty damn exciting, with all the implications thereof. OpenAI continued its rapid pace of shipping, pivoting for this week to safety. There …
NASA may soon launch a mission to Uranus! New discoveries beckon
NASA may soon make the Uranus mission a priority in the next decade. Here’s why. Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of hydrogen, helium, and …
Sweden, Denmark, Italy and Spain expel Russian diplomats after Bucha discoveries
Sweden, Denmark, Italy and Spain announced separately Tuesday that they will expel dozens of Russian diplomats following similar expulsions from other European Union countries. Why it matters: Several EU members, including Germany and France, have now announced Russian dismissals after evidence surfaced of atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha in the wake of Russia’s …
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for black hole discoveries to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
Göran K. Hansson, secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said at Tuesday’s ceremony in Stockholm that this year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets of universe.” Penrose, a professor at the University of Oxford who worked with Stephen Hawking, was awarded half of the prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is …
Cosmic discoveries win Nobel prize in physics
Image caption James Peebles (L), Didier Queloz (C) and Michel Mayor (R) share the nine million kronor prize Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for “ground-breaking” discoveries about the Universe. James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were announced as this year’s winners at a ceremony in Stockholm. They were …
Giant Parrot Heracles inexpectatus, aka ‘Squawkzilla,’ Is First-of-Its-Kind Find in New Zealand: Study
(Newser) – Researchers believe they’ve found the largest known parrot to ever inhabit our planet, and it just happens to be about twice the size of the parrot it now dethrones. While the critically endangered kakapo of New Zealand can weigh close to 8 pounds, Heracles inexpectatus weighed an estimated 15.5 pounds and, …
As the World Marks the 50th Anniversary of Man’s Landing on the Moon, BU Scientists Ponder the Next Big Space Discoveries | BU Today
Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, beside the deployed US flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module is on the left, and the astronauts’ footprints are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, mission …
