The International Space Station’s New AI-Powered Bot Is Actually Pretty Cool
The bot, called CIMON, is reminiscent of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but far less evil. We hope.
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The bot, called CIMON, is reminiscent of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but far less evil. We hope.
Professor Alice Walker has halted a study on the relationship between penis size and self-esteem following an enormous public response she says has compromised the reliability of her research.
Gizmodo visited the lab to learn about how it works and what doing science is like in this extreme environment.
‘Oumuamua is even stranger than we realised.
It’s as much as 44 percent higher than previous counts.
It’s yet another sign that this intriguing Saturnian moon has what it takes to sustain life.
The older we get, the greater our likelihood of dying. Or at least that’s what we thought.
Some people here in the 21st century still think of solar power as a futuristic technology. But solar-powered machines have been around for well over 100 years.
“It’s very exciting to see fossils so old. This maintains the integrity of the group as a true African phenomenon.”
Let the next stage of this historic sampling-and-return mission begin!
The space between stars may look pretty empty but it’s actually full of electromagnetic radiation and vast clouds of matter.
This time, NASA has moved the target launch from May 2020 to March 2021.
Our view of Martian history is becoming more clear.
New research shows that crows can recreate tools from memory, a capacity previously thought impossible for birds.
Birds couldn’t care less about your human entertainment.
The Rosetta probe captured nearly 100,000 images over the course of its mission, all of which are now freely available to the public.
