Mars Express orbiter captures detailed new video of the crater where Mark Watney was stranded in 'The Martian'
Latest from Space.comby Josh Dinner·4d ago
Europe's Mars Express orbiter has captured new, stunning imagery flying low over a geological region of the Red Planet shaped by ancient waterflow billions of years ago.
DNA's physical properties may shape which mutations evolution preserves
Phys.orgby Kaunas University·4d ago
DNA's physical properties may shape which mutations evolution preserves Nearly every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic information, yet different cells activate different...
Preschool teachers overwhelmingly support play-based learning, study finds
Phys.orgby Elizabeth Weinstein·4d ago
Preschool teachers overwhelmingly support play-based learning, study finds Thinkers from Plato to Maria Montessori have championed play as one of the most powerful ways that young children learn...
The LLM Judge That Kept Agreeing With Itself | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Priyansh Bhardwaj·4d ago
For a few weeks it worked well enough that we stopped watching it closely. Then a query that should have been flagged got approved and ran.
A little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the universe's first moments
Phys.orgby University·4d ago
A little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the universe's first moments What happened in the first moments of the universe—before the building blocks of life and the world we...
Neanderthal hips challenge long-standing hypothesis of a trade-off between childbirth and bipedal walking
Phys.orgby Sanjukta Mondal·4d ago
Neanderthal hips challenge long-standing hypothesis of a trade-off between childbirth and bipedal walking Sanjukta Mondal Author The most prominent difference between human male and female...
Illuminating the limits of the international unit of light, the candela
Phys.orgby Lisa Dittrich·4d ago
Illuminating the limits of the international unit of light, the candela The candela, the international unit of light in use for almost a century, forms the basis of photometry.
A Hidden Pattern in Your Saliva Can Predict Risk of Colorectal Cancer, Study Finds
ScienceAlertby Michael Irving·4d ago
Gastrointestinal cancers are among the most common cancers worldwide, and a leading cause of death.
11 Award-Winning Photos Show Science in Action
PetaPixelby Jeremy Gray·4d ago
The annual 2026 BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology photography competition offers researchers out in the field a chance to celebrate the intersection of art and science, showcasing their...
Spikes, claws and stingers have no single best shape
Science Newsby Emily Conover·4d ago
Spines, spikes, stingers, teeth, claws, beaks, fangs, tusks: Nature’s prickly bits come in a wide variety, but they all reflect the same trade-off.
Three Kinds of RAG Corpus, and What It Costs to Build for the Wrong One | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby angela shi·4d ago
On a demo folder that works. On an enterprise shelf it stops working, and not because a parameter is set wrong.
The World's Largest Psychedelic Brain Study of Its Kind Just Found 'Hidden Order' in The Chaos
ScienceAlertby Ivan Farkas·4d ago
Psychedelics are becoming more clinically relevant, and a slew of recent research has explored the effects of psilocybin in ever-greater detail, revealing that it has the ability to imprint...
NASA Selects University Teams to Help Advance Aviation Research
NASAby Lillian Gipson·4d ago
NASA has selected four university teams to help the agency transform the future of aviation through projects ranging from high-supersonic propulsion systems to low-noise routes for small aircraft...
The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experiments - NASA
NASAby Michele Ostovar·4d ago
NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963.
Aliens at 40: from wearable cameras to exoskeletons, here are the technologies the film predicted
The Conversation UKby Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham·4d ago
Director James Cameron’s acclaimed sci-fi movie Aliens turns 40 in August. It’s a sequel to Ridley Scott’s claustrophobic breakout hit Alien, made in 1979.
An Early History Of Space Stations: The Brick Moon Made Real
Hackadayby Al Williams·4d ago
People have lived in space stations for decades now, but something is wrong with them. Where are the big rotating wheels? You know the ones.
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: Voyager 2 launches to the outer planets
Latest from Space.comby Hanneke Weitering·4d ago
On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this was the first of the two Voyager missions NASA launched that year.
Try not to be hypnotized by the 'Eye of Africa' | Space photo of the day for Aug. 20, 2026
Latest from Space.comby Chelsea Gohd·4d ago
The "Eye of Africa" swirls across Mauritania in a hypnotizing snapshot captured from space. What is it?
How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide | Towards Data Science
Towards Data Science - Mediumby Sam Black·4d ago
Why fine-tune ? Let me provide a real, personal example. We fine-tuned a 7B parameter model which completely blows foundation models out of the water, but just for this very narrow subtask: Filling...
Tony Wyss-Coray Is Measuring Biological Age One Organ at a Time
Timeby Dominique Mosbergen·4d ago
It seems odd that your body’s internal age may differ from your chronological one. But Tony Wyss-Coray, a Swiss professor of neurology and director of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at...
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