SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He has more wealth, on paper at least, than the economies of nations like Ireland, Sweden, or his home country of […]
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will gather low in the evening sky this weekend, giving skywatchers a brief chance to see three planets together shortly after sunset.
SpaceX is now a publicly traded company. In one of the most highly anticipated and controversial public offerings of all time, the rocket venture helmed by Elon Musk started trading on Nasdaq on June 12th at the take-it-or-leave-it price of $135-per-share – though most retail investors will likely pay far more. The IPO is historic […]
The inland taipan is widely regarded as the most venomous snake on Earth. Here’s how life in the Australian outback shaped its extraordinary evolutionary weapon.
The most extreme fossil fuel emission future is off the table. But we are still headed into a climate changed world.
Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.
Most people don’t know about the hundreds of millions of male chicks killed in U.S. egg production every year. But now those killings are completely unnecessary.
From a wet winter in the Southwest to fewer Atlantic hurricanes, this is what to expect as a potential super El Niño takes shape.
Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be smart, meaning it can reason at the level of a frontier …
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Following a knife attack in the city on Monday, Musk declared support for Restore Britain, a hard-right populist political party that advocates for large-scale migrant deportation in the UK. He reposted statements […]