1+ hour, 6+ min ago  (580+ words) AI is a powerful tool in scientific research. It can be used to find patterns in vast quantities of data. But it also generates false positives, as most of us know. This is an...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (347+ words) For nearly thirty years, dark energy has been cosmology's great get out of jail free card, the invisible, mysterious force we invented to explain why the universe is expanding faster than it should be. Now a team of mathematicians says…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (891+ words) Universe Today Welcome back to our ongoing series, A Brief-ish History of SETI, where we examine the ideas and milestones that have come to define the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In Part I, we looked at the purpose and…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (9+ words) The Ancient Art That Could Transform Space Communication Universe Today...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (539+ words) The Rubin Observatory is the current queen of data generation, but exoplanet hunting missions like Kepler and TESS generate their own data that needs analysis. Scientists are still processing it, and as time goes on, they're making more and better…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (568+ words) This is Part 2 of a series on large extra dimensions. Read Part 1. Oh yes they can, which is why I’m devoting an entire series just to this topic. The problem that large extra dimensions just might solve is called the…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (723+ words) This is Part 1 of a series on large extra dimensions. I always say that one of the things that separates real science from pseudoscience is that while in both you’re allowed to say whatever crazy idea pops into your mind,…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (641+ words) AI faces daily criticism from people worried about its ill-effects. But the type of AI that draws this ire are Large Language Models (LLMs). There are other types of AI with specialized functions that don't make it onto the front…...

6+ mon, 1+ day ago  (370+ words) This is Part 4 in a series on the mathematical universe hypothesis. Check out Parts 1, 2, and 3. I dunno, that seems to me like baggage of a different kind. I sure hope not. There are plenty of other objections to the mathematical…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago  (647+ words) This is Part 3 in a series on the mathematical universe hypothesis. Check out Parts 1 and 2. So which is responsible for which? Do our minds create math? Does matter create mind? How does it all work? The mathematical universe concept breaks…...