Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Why freezing rain can be so much more dangerous than snow

By Andrea Thompson

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to the icy outskirts of its planet-forming disk, which could help explain the evolution of comets at the edge of our solar…

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry point for an ever-increasing set of…

JWST unveils most intricate map yet of cosmic dark matter

By Joseph…

Closer look

Found in the constellation Sextans, the area covered by the new map is a section of sky about 2.5 times larger than the full Moon. A global community of scientists have observed this region with at least 15 ground- and space-based…

Microsoft has revealed its new Maia 200 accelerator chip for artificial intelligence (AI) that is three times more powerful than hardware from rivals like Google and Amazon, company representatives say.

This newest chip will be used in AI…

A welcome update of one of the world’s cutest, rarest and most elusive mammals has been published in Global Ecology and Conservation. Meet the coastal marten. Once presumed extinct, researchers now have a better idea of where it lives, the…

On a lonely ridge in Chile, the giant silver dome of the Gemini South Observatory opens each night to observe the faint, ancient light of the cosmos. Spread around the telescope is a glittering field of solar panels, turning sunlight into…