Frank Landymore

Bright Future In a bid to quickly halt the foreboding march of global warming, scientists are exploring the use of aerosols, or tiny particles, in the atmosphere to dim the sunlight that's making our planet pretty toasty. It's an approach filled with uncertainty, but there may be a silver lining in using nature's greatest source […]

Pinky Promise OpenAI and Meta are on the verge of releasing the next versions of their AI models that will supposedly be capable of reasoning and planning, Financial Times reports. But, as with any hype coming out of big tech, take it with a grain of salt — and a heavy dose of skepticism. The […]

Tired of ads bloating your TV? We have some bad news. Roku, the kings of turning your idiot box into a smart one, is apparently developing a way to show you ads on its TVs even when you're not using one of its streaming apps. That's right: whether you're using your gaming console or watching […]

Harvard researchers have created what is being characterized as an "intelligent liquid" — or in more specific terms, a programmable fluid with a unique structure that allows for it to radically alter its properties, in what could be a major advancement in the burgeoning field of metamaterials. While the substance may not literally be sentient, […]

Elon Musk has long made plenty of bold and highfalutin claims about colonizing Mars. Now, he's delivered another speech about this offworld fantasy of his, providing a comprehensive roadmap to settling Mars that at least seems "tangible," in Ars Technica's assessment. In a presentation to SpaceX employees at the company's Starbase facility in Texas, Musk […]

Hell and Back NASA's Parker Solar probe didn't quite fly into the Sun, but it did the next best thing. In 2021, the probe barrelled straight through the heart of a huge coronal mass ejection — and survived — earning it the title as the first spacecraft to "touch" our star. Now, a new study […]

A new report from the Wall Street Journal reveals the chaos behind the scenes at a Boeing 737 factory right before a door plug on one of its planes blew out midair on a flight full of passengers. According to entries in the factory's Shipside Action Tracker (SAT) reviewed by WSJ, production was stalled on […]

Remain In Touch When a murder case goes cold, what happens to the victim's body? In a shocking report from the Mississippi Free Press, a Pascagoula Police lieutenant discovered that for decades, human remains that were sent to an out of state crime lab were not being returned to Mississippi. Instead, many of them were […]

When the total solar eclipse on April 8 blankets portions of North America in shadow, NASA plans to carry out a somewhat stealthy operation under cover of that momentary darkness. The space agency will launch three rockets straight into the dimmed skies of the eclipse in hopes of understanding how the celestial event affects our […]

A highly experimental new medical treatment to grow a liver inside someone's body has just hit a major milestone. After TK of development, the biotech company LyGenesis has announced that for the first time a human patient has been dosed with a cocktail of donated liver cells to transform one of their lymph nodes into […]