Category: Art

Human brain with a highlighted precentral gyrus, the location of the motor cortex Science Photo Library/Getty Images Our movements may be controlled by two distinct networks in our brain, rather than just one. For nearly a century, we have known that the motor cortex – a relatively thin strip of tissue in the centre of...

Technology Following claims that an AI has shown “sparks of artificial general intelligence”, what are we to make of the hype surrounding this technology? AI expert Melanie Mitchell is your guide By Daniel Cossins Nabil NEZZAR ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been all over the news in the past few years. Even so, in recent months the...

Perfume is a poetry of atoms. Nautilus is celebrating Earth day with the first-ever subscriber-exclusive product: An organic soy candle—inspired by growth, regeneration, and the preservation of geodiversity—with a custom Nautilus fragrance. We’ve commissioned this handmade, limited-run candle by Caos Motē, the studio of Brooklyn-based designer Sam Malloy. Made from upcycled concrete that turns into...

As environmental challenges go, microfiber pollution has come from practically out of nowhere. It was only a decade or so ago that scientists first suspected our clothing, increasingly made of synthetic materials like polyester and nylon, might be major contributors to the global plastic problem. Today a growing body of science suggests the tiny strands...

The first records of Greenland Vikings date to 985 CE. Archaeological evidence yields insight into how they lived, yet drivers of their disappearance in the 15th century remain enigmatic. Hypotheses include combinations of environmental change, social unrest, and economic disruption. Occupation coincided with a transition from the Medieval Warm Period (900 to 1250 CE) to...

Life Remains preserved in amber from 105 million years ago are the oldest evidence of a mutually beneficial relationship between dinosaurs and arthropods By Riley Black A fragment of amber containing beetle larval moults (upper inset) and bits of feathers probably from a theropod dinosaur (lower inset) CN-IGME CSIC Battered feathers and prehistoric beetle larvae...

In a unique analysis of experimental data, nuclear physicists have made the first-ever observations of how lambda particles, so-called “strange matter,” are produced by a specific process called semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS). What’s more, these data hint that the building blocks of protons, quarks and gluons, are capable of marching through the atomic nucleus...

If you’re trying to keep up with all the advancements in AI lately…good luck. Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT blew up late last year, it seems like there’s a new development in artificial intelligence every minute. The latest craze is something called Auto-GPT, which uses ChatGPT’s underlying tech (GPT-4) to do things ChatGPT simply can’t. You...

Home News Spaceflight Artist’s illustration of NASA’s RHESSI sun-studying spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA) A dead NASA spacecraft will come crashing back to Earth in the next few days, experts say. NASA’s RHESSI satellite, which studied the sun from 2002 until its decommissioning in 2018, is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around 9:30 p.m. EDT on...

Regional setting and ice history. (A) The Eastern Settlement of Southern Greenland. The inset shows the entirety of Greenland; dark gray depicts grounded ice cover at present, light gray is land, and white is ocean. Eight black stars show locations of the Viking sites considered herein and also Nanortalik, where Late Holocene relative sea-level data...