Experts are raising alarms about artificial intelligence (AI), saying it threatens human existence. A group of scientists and tech industry insiders rate the risk of “extinction from AI” as being on a par with “other societal-scale risks” like pandemics and nuclear war. They [...]
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May 26th, 2023 - 10:17 pm § in Science
Technology: Lightning in a bottle
Modern technology is making a lot of age-old dreams come true (e.g., we can now make diamonds and gold), and while no one has figured out how to plug a cord into lightning, scientists are getting closer to making their own clouds and pulling electricity from them. Electricity from thin air — h[...]
March 15th, 2023 - 10:32 pm § in Science
A waterfall as high as Mt. Rainier
Or nearly so. It existed on Mars eons ago. Watch video below for details. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
We still don’t know where Covid-19 came from
“An updated intelligence assessment about the origins of the Covid-19 virus has reopened the long-simmering and unsolved debate about how the virus came to be,” CNN reported on Monday, February 27, 2023 (read story here). “[T]he US Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence an[...]
Airliner of the future
The strut wing design has less drag, making it more fuel-efficient. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 10th, 2023 - 4:56 am § in Science
Still think climate change is a hoax?
“Don’t Look Up” is a satire film about humanity in denial about an impending comet collision with earth (details here). It’s a not-too-subtle play on attitudes about climate change. Denialism is quite possibly the most striking cultural phenomenon of our time. Election, clima[...]
December 11th, 2022 - 6:24 pm § in Science
Is your dog smart as a toddler, or is your toddler as smart as a dog?
Researchers have discovered dogs can learn much the same way as human toddlers do. This dog, owned by a psychologist, knows the names of over 1,000 objects. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
NASA’s Artemis 1 moonshot is go; watch launch here (video)
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October 29th, 2022 - 10:38 am § in Science
PHOTOGRAPHY: Smiling sun
This is a real photo, snapped by NASA. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
October 17th, 2022 - 3:35 pm § in Science
A black hole is born
Around 2.4 billion years ago, a massive star in the Sagitta Constellation collapsed to form a black hole, and fired gamma rays into space. Astronomers are calling the explosion “BOAT” — the “brightest of all time.” The gamma rays arrived at our planet last week, and wer[...]