1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (211+ words) Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a young star just 120 light years away engaging in what is an aptly childish pastime: blowing a bubble. The bubble, of course, is not the product of a soapy solution but hot…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago  (591+ words) In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught "mini-brains" consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game "Pong." "The amazing aspect…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (617+ words) There was an astounding sentence in the Feb. 23 Metro article "An island unto itself" about Minnie's Island: "In a normal year, about 600 million gallons of sewage are dumped into the Potomac River." As devastating as the recent Potomac sewage spill…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago  (547+ words) One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of exploding in a powerful supernova, they…...

3+ hour, 59+ min ago  (562+ words) As it turns out, there's a very good reason for that warning. According to the first independent safety evaluation of the feature, as detailed in this month's edition of the journal Nature Medicine, the app is astonishingly bad at identifying…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago  (593+ words) Elon Musk and other AI leaders have repeatedly insisted that the solution to the industry's extremely costly and energy-intensive data centers is to launch them into space, taking advantage of unfettered access to solar energy and virtually limitless real estate....

5+ hour, 31+ min ago  (868+ words) Washingtonians can finally begin to thaw out " at least somewhat. After three straight colder-than-normal months, March is likely to tilt milder overall. The month will start on the chilly side, but temperatures are poised to surge by the middle of…...

5+ hour, 53+ min ago  (454+ words) The tech behind 3D printing has come an extremely long way. The additive manufacturing technique, which generally involves depositing one layer at a time, has gone from relatively crude rapid prototyping in industrial settings to high-end fabrication of detailed parts in…...

8+ hour, 26+ min ago  (394+ words) While plenty of bad bacteria " like E. coli " can get you sick, many other types are beneficial, protecting the body from harmful infections and reducing inflammation. The advent of genetic modification has greatly advanced medicine's understanding of the microscopic organisms; modified…...

9+ hour, 47+ min ago  (858+ words) The main job of Google Chrome is to give you a window to the web. With so much engaging content out there on the internet, you may not have given much thought to the browser framework that serves as the…...