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Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone Laboratories—John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain—built a compact electronic device using thin gold wires and a piece of germanium, a material known as a semiconductor. Their invention, later named the transistor (for which they...

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy 

How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy 

On a spring day in 1954, Bell Labs researchers showed off the first practical solar panels at a press conference in Murray Hill, New Jersey, using sunlight to spin a toy Ferris wheel before a stunned crowd. The solar future looked bright. But in the race to commercialize the technology it invented,...

Un terminal qui affiche la vraie position de la Lune en ASCII

Un terminal qui affiche la vraie position de la Lune en ASCII

Vous avez déjà fixé votre terminal en vous disant “il lui manque quelque chose” ? Bien sûr que oui, et ce quelque chose, c’est une représentation précise de la Lune en pur ASCII 7-bit !! Aleyan, un développeur visiblement obsédé par les détails astronomiques, a créé ASCII Side of...

The Download: introducing: the Security issue

The Download: introducing: the Security issue

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Security issue It would be naïve to think we are going back to a world without AI. We’re not. But it’s only one of many urgent...

Job titles of the future: Satellite streak astronomer

Job titles of the future: Satellite streak astronomer

Earlier this year, the $800 million Vera Rubin Observatory commenced its decade-long quest to create an extremely detailed time-lapse movie of the universe. Rubin is capable of capturing many more stars than any other astronomical observatory ever built; it also sees many more satellites. Up to 40%...

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

How lidar measures the cost of climate disasters

The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in January 2025 left an indelible mark on the Southern California landscape. The Eaton and Palisades fires raged for 24 days, killing 29 people and destroying 16,000 structures, with losses estimated at $60 billion. More than 55,000 acres were...

The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms

The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia....

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

Oleh Kovalskyy thinks that Starlink terminals are built as if someone assembled them with their feet. Or perhaps with their hands behind their back.  To demonstrate this last image, Kovalskyy—a large, 47-year-old Ukrainian, clad in sweatpants and with tattoos stretching from his wrists up to...

NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

NASA and IBM have released a new open-source machine learning model to help scientists better understand and predict the physics and weather patterns of the sun. Surya, trained on over a decade’s worth of NASA solar data, should help give scientists an early warning when a dangerous solar flare is...

The Download: Trump’s golden dome, and fueling AI with nuclear power

The Download: Trump’s golden dome, and fueling AI with nuclear power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies Within a week of his inauguration, President Trump issued...