Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).
How condensation derailed a historic volleuyball match in Wrigley Field.
German company Isar Aerospace has successfully launched Europe’s first entirely commercial orbital rocket. It attempted to achieve the feat last March, but that lasted all of 30 seconds before the vehicle crashed into the sea and exploded. This time the company managed to get the two-stage Spectrum into low Earth orbit from a Norwegian spaceport. […]
Most couples check in at the end of the day, when it’s too late to help. A psychologist explains the Monday-morning question that changes the whole week.
A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 mi…
College football games experienced extreme heat conditions and thunderstorms Saturday. Some thoughts on why response to heat differs from lightning in college football.
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The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.
Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only problem is a lack of evidence.
Astronomers are counting down to using the new Roman Space Telescope to scan the Milky Way for alien moons that might be habitable, says one of Roman’s chief scientists.