The Solar Orbiter spacecraft obtained the first images of the Sun's south pole, as well as various observations that will allow scientists to gain new insights into the behavior of our star, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced Wednesday.
USA, June 11 – Artificial intelligence-based systems like ChatGpt can't truly understand what a flower is or what it represents to a human being. The problem is that everything chatbots know comes from words and, in some cases, images, and this information can't compensate for the lack of direct experience—the ability to smell, touch, or walk through a field full of flowers.
A recent study presented by Dr. Sara Mahdavi, assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto (Canada), suggests that women between the ages of 50 and 60 who consume one to three cups of coffee a day may be more likely to remain healthy in old age.
Tattooing, the practice of inscribing drawings or symbols on human skin, was also common in ancient times. But new implications have now emerged after the discovery of inks uncommon at the time and previously unseen figures on the body of an 800-year-old Andean mummy.
USA, June 4th. - One of the longest geomagnetic storms of the current solar cycle is still ongoing.
A team of physicists at New York City University experimentally demonstrated the existence of time mirrors, a phenomenon in which electromagnetic waves can reverse their flow in time.
United Kingdom, May 31 – Darkness is advancing across one-fifth of the world's oceans: over the past 20 years, the depth of the areas penetrated by sunlight and moonlight, essential for 90% of marine life, has shrunk by a total area of ??more than 75 million square kilometers.
USA, May 25 – Two researchers from Aalto University in Finland, Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki, have unveiled a revolutionary proposal: a reinterpretation of gravity that doesn't require hidden dimensions or undiscovered particles, unlike the popular string theory.
China, May 24 – A team of Chinese scientists has created contact lenses that allow vision in the dark, even with eyes closed, by converting infrared light into visible light.
Tallinn, May 21 – A team of scientists has determined which jobs are the most satisfying and which are not at all.
China, 20 May. - The departure from Shanghai marks a milestone and surpasses the record set a few weeks earlier by BYD Shenzhen, a domestically-built car carrier ship of major Chinese automaker BYD. This ship held until then the title of the largest car carrier in the world in operation.
Havana, May 17 – Garfield, Puss in Boots, Toulouse from Disney's movie "The Aristocats": cultural icons, perhaps; orange, without a doubt.