2025-06-13

This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa. [...]

2025-06-13

Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?

According to physics, any blanket can cool you—for a few minutes. But a real cooling blanket is possible with phase-change materials. [...]

2025-06-12

See the Sun in a Way You've Never Seen It Before, From Above and Below

The sun has been photographed and imaged many times, but never from the top or bottom. [...]

2025-06-12

Quantum art, multiball, and AI selfies: TNW 2025’s best side quests

Qubits, entanglement, superposition, trapped ions, Schrödinger’s cat. These terms sound strange because the world of quantum mechanics — where things can exist in multiple states at once — is s [...]

2025-06-12

Solar Orbiter captures images of the sun's pole for the first time

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That [...]

2025-06-12

Google DeepMind is sharing its AI forecasts with the National Weather Service

Here's an AI-government collaboration of a less… unsettling variety than some. Google DeepMind is teaming up with the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for tropical cyclone season. The AI researc [...]

2025-06-12

Experimental retina implants give mice infrared vision

A light-sensitive wire mesh implanted in the retina helps restore nerve impulses. [...]

2025-06-11

NASA is shutting down some official social media accounts, including the Curiosity rover's handle

NASA is shutting down several social media accounts run by the Science Mission Directorate, including the official Mars Curiosity Rover account on X. The organization says it made the decision in orde [...]

2025-06-11

Artificial Intelligence Is Unlocking the Secrets of Black Holes

A neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes has found that the one at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, likely rotates at maximum speed. [...]