July’s buck moon rose worldwide on July 29, 2026, marking midsummer nights and setting the stage for August’s eclipse-packed skies.
Two meteor showers peak on July 30-31 as the Perseids continue building toward an exceptional August peak under moonless skies later this summer.
Aug. 12 might be the best day of the year for skygazers.
The Iran conflict shows how low-cost weapons exploit chokepoints. The space community must prioritize resilience through diversity to avoid the same mistake.
OpenAI made two announcements this week that look unrelated. One is generous. The other explains how it can afford to be. The generous one: OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, Axios reported. T…
Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quart…
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.
DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration that clears the way for drone delivery in the near future. DoorDash said it has received a Part 135 air carrier certification from the FAA that […]
Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.
We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.