Scientists believe they’ve found the origins of ‘space gold’ Runnin’ on empty When atoms first formed after the Big Bang, onlyhydrogenand helium (together with a smattering of lithium) were produced. Everything else was forged in the nuclear furnaces of massive stars, or in the titanic explosions of stellar supernovae. Stars like theSunspend most of their lives balanced between gravitational forces pulling the body inward and the outward push of thermonuclear reactions at its core....

Did you knowNeural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your online ticket now! The race to get humans to Mars is heating up.Chinarecently joined theUSAin targeting the 2030sfor crewed missions to the planet, but both their plans face enormous hurdles. One of the main concerns is the threat posed by particle radiation from the sun, stars, and galaxies....

An international team of researchers are claiming to have performed the first ever experiment successfully ‘quantum entangling’ a multi-celled organism. The team, whose research was recently published ina pre-print paper, says it’s managed to place a tardigrade – a tiny critter affectionately known as a “water bear” – in a state of quantum entanglement between a pair of superconducting qubits. In other words: the researchers managed to put a tardigrade in a state where it was directly connected to the qubits in such a way that anything that happens to the water bear or the qubits would simultaneously affect all three....

Scientists have developed an AI system that can classify tens of thousands of galaxies in a few seconds, a process that can take months to do manually. Up front:Astronomers classify galaxies by shape to understand how they form and evolve. But this can be a time-consuming job. The researchers used convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures to hasten the task. Perthe preprint paper: The key strengths of automated classification techniques, such as our CNN approach, ultimately lie in their speed and ability to generalise....

Evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has been discovered for the first time. Astronomers used data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to detect vapor rising from Ganymede. The findings could offer new insights about the moon’s atmosphere. Up front:Ganymede is the largest satellite in our solar system and three-quarters the size of Mars. Scientists have speculated that the vast oceans belowits thick icy crust could host aquatic life....