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The Vela satellites were built to catch secret nuclear tests, but they accidentally recorded flashes from deep space that opened a new branch of astrophysics
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (1001+ words) Published May 24, 2026 The Vela satellites were not built to study stars. They were built to watch for nuclear weapons. Then the satellites saw something that was not a bomb. On July 2, 1967, Vela 4 recorded a short flash of gamma radiation. The…...
Most professional mathematicians, when describing the moment a difficult proof finally falls into place, use language closer to discovery than to invention " and the consistency of that framing across cultures and centuries has driven philosophers of mathematics to a serious unresolved question about whether mathematical structures exist independently of the minds that find them
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (100+ words) When professional mathematicians describe the moment a difficult proof finally falls into place, the language they reach for is, on the available evidence, almost always closer to discovery than to invention. By Space Daily Editorial Team " Editorial process Published May…...
Assistive home robot learns coordinated dual arm tasks by watching people
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (781+ words) Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 - Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3 M) have developed a new way for an assistive robot to learn how to move its arms autonomously by combining observational learning with communicati Assistive home robot learns coordinated dual…...
NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (324+ words) Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2026 - In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover. NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't…...
The Silent Partner - How Machine Learning Quietly Powers Modern Space Operations
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (335+ words) Space Daily The Silent Partner - How Machine Learning Quietly Powers Modern Space Operations What ML does in the space context Practical applications in space operations Earth observation and analytics: Companies that operate imaging satellites face a data deluge. ML algorithms…...
Simulated Milky Way with AI and supercomputing sets star modeling milestone
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (347+ words) Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences in Japan, collaborating with The University of Tokyo and Universitat de Barcelona, have delivered the first simulation of the Milky Way that models over 100 billion…...
Layered oxide thin film achieves dramatic resistivity control for advanced AI chip technologies
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (288+ words) Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2025 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new atomically layered material which experiences a five order of magnitude resistivity reduction when oxidized, a change that exceeds a hundred times the reduction observed in comparable non-layered…...
Autonomous robot lab accelerates search for advanced quantum dots
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (193+ words) "Rainbow brings together multiple robots working in concert to autonomously explore and optimize complex chemistries with extraordinary efficiency," said Milad Abolhasani, ALCOA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State and corresponding author of the study. The platform enables…...
One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (279+ words) "Our data challenges the dogma of proteins being a delicate house of cards. The physical rules governing their stability is more like Lego than Jenga, where a change to one brick threatening to bring the entire structure down is a…...