Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go upwards.

— Fred Hoyle

Astronomy

Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought
Categories: Astronomy

Webb Space Telescope Spies Baby Planetary System

Sky & Telescope Magazine - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 1:04pm

Astronomers have found a baby system that’s just beginning to build planets — and it can tell us about how and where planet formation starts.

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Categories: Astronomy

U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project to Study Cosmic Inflation

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 1:00pm

Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets

Categories: Astronomy

Heat Dome’s Extreme Heat and Humidity Triggers Alerts across Eastern U.S.

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:45pm

High humidity and overnight low temperatures that are relatively hot will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week

Categories: Astronomy

Simple skincare routine could stop babies developing eczema

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
Keeping a baby's skin moisturised could significantly reduce their risk of eczema - but perhaps only for babies who aren't genetically at risk
Categories: Astronomy

AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.
Categories: Astronomy

What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions about ancient minds and why we engage in this peculiar practice
Categories: Astronomy

Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs
Categories: Astronomy

Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – raising questions about what the true limits are
Categories: Astronomy

Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:00am

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids

Categories: Astronomy

Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4

Scientific American.com - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:00am

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution

Categories: Astronomy

AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penalty taker will shoot

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 8:00am
By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict whether a shot would go to the goalkeeper’s left or right with 64 per cent accuracy
Categories: Astronomy

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APOD - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:00pm

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Categories: Astronomy, NASA