Category: Art

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) has taken its first monitoring camera images showing part of the spacecraft with our home planet as a stunning backdrop. This image was taken by JUICE’s monitoring camera 1 (JMC1) at 14:42 CEST on April 14, 2023, following launch at 14:14 CEST. Image credit: ESA / JUICE / JMC...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. AI models rely on immense datasets to train their complex algorithms, but sometimes the use of those datasets for training purposes can infringe on the rights of the data owners. Yet actually proving that a model used a dataset...

Award-winning science fiction author Lavie Tidhar is a busy man. Between his own writing and editing projects, including The Best of World SF anthologies, he works with animator Nir Yaniv on sci-fi film series via their company Positronish, including Mars Machines, about “a toaster and a coffee pot on Mars”, and film noir Loontown. But...

When the electricity goes out in Puerto Rico, food and medicines spoil. Dialysis machines stop running. Water doesn’t flow, businesses shutter, and schools close. And while the energy grid’s fragility attracts national attention when a hurricane causes a blackout, Puerto Ricans constantly confront outages. “In the mountains, it only takes a little wind and we...

There’s a tiny bit of good news in the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report: Only 36% of us live in places that get an F grade for ozone and fine particle pollution. That’s too many, of course, but it’s a smaller number than in years past. According to the report, air pollution...

Space Ultralight dark matter particles that behave like waves, called axions, seem to be a better match for gravitational lensing measurements than more traditional explanations for dark matter By Leah Crane A gravitationally lensed image of a galaxy NASA/ESA/STSci Evidence is growing for an ultralight dark matter particle called the axion. A study of light...

Wind was the first thing I heard in the morning, along with a door opening and closing as someone got up first and went out to use the outhouse. Sounds reached into my awareness through the fog of sleep. Then: the lighter button of the propane heater pressed, a metallic clang sounding at least twice...

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE, in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation, launched the Environmental Competition last year. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes,...

By third grade (circa the early 1980s), I was regularly sleeping over at friends’ houses. Birthday slumber parties were common, as well as random Friday nights watching VHS tapes in dark dens until our eyes burned. At one friend’s house, we choreographed Wham! songs, and at another, I absorbed MTV like a sponge because we...

Published April 19, 2023 14 min read This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). There are a few things you immediately notice when arriving in Cape Town. The first is Table Mountain — an omnipresent, flat-topped massif rearing up above the Atlantic seaboard, wrapping itself around the city, presiding over everything with reassuring...