I Tested iPhone AI Voice Assistants: Here’s the Best One for Digital Marketers Apple’s AI advancements are taking the digital assistant experience to new heights. A year after the announcement of Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, Siri underwent a significant update, with new features like visual intelligence, text-to-Siri support, and image generation in iOS 18. … Read more
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Advertisement Spring has arrived, and with it comes the annual ritual of decluttering—clearing closets, organizing garages, and deciding what to keep or toss. But before you donate or discard that old DSLR buried in a dusty box, consider this: your aging camera could be the key to capturing timeless, vintage-inspired photos that … Read more
Eta Aquariid meteors streak across the sky away from the shower’s radiant, as seen above San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. The brightest object in the sky is Venus, with slightly fainter Saturn just above it. Credit: ESO/P. Horalek (Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, … Read more
It is rare when we highlight a celestial event (or events) that involves the zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab. In Greek mythology, Cancer was summoned to distract Hercules when he was battling the multiheaded Hydra the Serpent. The crab was crushed by Hercules’ foot, but to reward his effort Hera placed it among the … Read more
Flying Your Name to Jupiter on NASA’s Icy Moon Explorer More than 2.6 million people around the world joined NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign, a first-of-its-kind initiative that invited people to sign their names to a special message traveling 1.8 billion miles on the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa Clipper launched on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon … Read more
April was an exciting month at the SETI Institute, full of discoveries that push the boundaries of our understanding of life beyond Earth. Dr. Nathalie Cabrol shared her thoughts on the curious gas signatures detected on exoplanet K2-18b — clues that could hint at alien biology, or at least tell us more about the conditions … Read more
NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project NASA’s Office of STEM Commitment (OSTEM), in partnership with the NASA Mission Directorates, fosters research excellence and institutional capacity at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) through Intense funding opportunities. Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry MUREP OCEAN will Additional capacity at MSIs and expand the investigator community that is addressing the relationship between … Read more
NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project Leverage strategic partnerships that drive capacity building at Minority Serving Institutions and within underrepresented and underserved communities. MUREP INCLUDES In Aid of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) initiative, NASA is committed to broadening participation in … Read more
A Cosmos launcher containing parts from a German V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Credit: NASA As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet terrifying weapons in Nazi Germany’s armamentarium: the V-2 Cosmos launcher. A long-range, … Read more
Orbiter dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that can be compacted down to form bricks to construct Selene shelters, or “lunarcrete” to bind those bricks. And now, scientists have shown how Selene regolith can be turned into solar cells. “From extracting water … Read more