After months of turmoil over the future of a vaunted mission to bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth, NASA has its verdict on Mars Sample Return. The space agency is “committed” to bringing those rocks back from Mars, Administrator Bill Nelson said Monday, but it will have to do it with way less money and in far less time than currently designed. And how exactly is NASA going to pull that off? Right now it has no idea — and it’s looking for someone who does. “I have asked our folks to...
Chalkbeat discusses how pandemic relief from the federal government gave schools a means to provide families direct aid.
Just how real is quantum computing? We have an amazing guest on our Weekend Edition who will talk about how she is helping people prepare for IT careers using quantum computing. Meta’s new AI release sparks a debate about open versus closed source AI, major legislation expanding US government surveillance capabilities goes largely unnoticed, big
The Biden administration is sending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to an anti-Israel professor to investigate how "viral memes" can "perpetuate gendered, anti-Muslim racism," federal spending disclosures show.
Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was until the past 24 months or so, when funding started to slow down, leading to less internal development or funding resources going toward open source. Companies suddenly had to justify themselves, have a real business model, cut costs, and fundamentally start to return something to investors. On the...
The views expressed in this video are those of the speakers, and do not represent any endorsement or sponsorship. Is the open-source approach, which has democratized access to software, ensured transparency, and improved security for decades, now poised to have a similar impact on AI? We dissect the balance between collaboration and control, legal ramifications,
In 2020, a dangerous pathogen swept the globe. The pandemic required government action, we were told, but the government of one nation was not enough. Even powerful governments (like that of the United States) worked with other governments to keep pandemic measures from being futile. In order to avoid a fatal lack of coordination, some
The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released
Ophelia examined data from the North American Syringe Exchange Network to see which U.S. states have the most syringe services programs per capita and how Idaho compares.
Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That's why researchers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are seeking innovative ways to use Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused Anthony Albanese of enabling anti-Semitism to fester, blaming the prime minister for what he labelled a “national moral fog”. Delivering the seventh Tom Hughes Oration in Sydney, Mr Dutton said the prime minister’s leadership has been lacking throughout a “supine law enforcement response to incidents of anti-Semitism across the […]
Beau Brown, 30, from Atlanta, Georgia, has always been taller than average. He has to make adjustments to fit into an average-sized world and he can cause quite a stir when out in public.