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What’s Up With STEVE? New Finding Adds a Twist to the Aurora-Like Enigma

What’s Up With STEVE? New Finding Adds a Twist to the Aurora-Like Enigma

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through ...

NASA’s Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings

NASA’s Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

An artist’s concept of the Solar Sail mission in orbit. Illustration: NASA Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat ...

Scientists Can Now See Inside a Single Cancer Cell

Scientists Can Now See Inside a Single Cancer Cell

Health
Sarah Carter

A team in the UK has found a new window into cancer, thanks to a novel imaging technique that allows them to take ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish

NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission ...

The Ancient Egyptians May Have Seen the Milky Way as a Celestial Deity

The Ancient Egyptians May Have Seen the Milky Way as a Celestial Deity

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The massive galaxy that houses our star system, along with hundreds of billions of other stars, appears as a shimmery splotch stretching ...

Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Business
Robert Johnson

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior ...

OpenAI Clearly Nervous About Its New Voice Cloning Tool Being Used for Scams

OpenAI Clearly Nervous About Its New Voice Cloning Tool Being Used for Scams

Business
Robert Johnson

OpenAI announced a new AI-based audio cloning tool called Voice Engine on Friday. While the company is obviously proud of the potential ...

The ‘Official’ Way to Say Godzilla x Kong Is Driving Me Insane

The ‘Official’ Way to Say Godzilla x Kong Is Driving Me Insane

Entertainment
James Parker

How do you say Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? Godzilla “ex” Kong, like “deus ex machina”—the Godzilla from the machine? Godzilla/Kong? ...

Lego’s Super Mario and Mario Kart Sets Will Have You Dashing to Stores

Lego’s Super Mario and Mario Kart Sets Will Have You Dashing to Stores

Technology
Laura Adams

Image: Nintendo If you’ve been thinking to yourself, “I need some new Legos to put on my shelf,” the company’s got you ...

NASA Is Still Fighting to Save Its Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

NASA Is Still Fighting to Save Its Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the boundary of our solar system ...