Aristarchus Crater on the moon. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that…
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Philippines-based Plentina, a buy now, pay later startup focused on emerging markets, announced today it has raised $2.2 million. This brings the fintech’s total funding…
Illustration of a system that produces the first optical lattice with sound. Light is pumped in through three sources – including via a digital mirror…
Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory New observations of the atomic structure of…
[embedded content] My favorite show right now is Succession, the fictionalization of the Murdoch family and its media empire. It’s relentlessly funny, as the patriarch…
The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility are the first step in increasing the energy of laser beams as they make their way toward the…
Hi friends! Greg here. You might remember me from such hits as “Greg takes over Lucas’ newsletter while he’s on vacation.” Now we’re back with…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Fossilized remains of sauropodomorphs – large, long-necked herbivores that lived during the MesozoicThe Mesozoic Era…
Tyson Barker Contributor Tyson Barker is head of the Technology and Global Affairs Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He previously worked…
Statins are a recommended and common intervention for preventing cardiovascular events by reducing levels of lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood. During the pandemic, it has…
Joe Hellerstein Contributor Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In…
It’s no surprise that Katie Haun is a major proponent of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The former federal prosecutor who today co-leads the powerful crypto…
Hiring is harder than ever for basically every startup. The rush of investment into tech companies in recent years has created more demand for skilled…
Alice Pannier Contributor The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Quantum information science has long…
Spin chains in a quantum system undergo a collective twisting motion as the result of quasiparticles clustering together. Demonstrating this KPZ dynamics concept are pairs…
The VERTICO—Virgo Environment Traced in Carbon Monoxide—Survey observed the gas reservoirs in 51 galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster and found that the extreme environment…
This artistic impression depicts Venus. Credit: ESO (European Southern Observatory)/M. Kornmesser & NASA/JPL/Caltech Whether VenusVenus, the second planet from the sun, is named after the…
Image of Cancún, Mexico captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on April 16, 2021. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC…
Forming planets are one possible explanation for the rings and gaps observed in disks of gas and dust around young stars. But this theory has…
This illustration combines an image of Jupiter from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft with a composite image of Earth to depict the size…