Could Machine Learning Mean the End of Understanding in Science? Posted on August 10, 2018 by quaezar In News Much to the chagrin of summer party planners, weather is a notoriously chaotic system. Small changes in precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind speed or direction, etc. can balloon into an entirely […]Read more Could Machine Learning Mean the End of Understanding in Science?
Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus Posted on August 10, 2018 by quaezar In News New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were ‘lazy’. An archaeological […]Read more Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus
Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars Posted on July 25, 2018 by quaezar In News Far beneath the deeply frozen ice cap at Mars’s south pole lies a lake of liquid water—the first to be found on the Red Planet. Detected from orbit using ice-penetrating […]Read more Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars
Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about Posted on July 20, 2018 by quaezar In News Astronomers have found 12 more moons around Jupiter, and one is really weird. While 11 orbit in the same direction as their nearest neighbors, one doesn’t, potentially putting it on […]Read more Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about