Following an uncommonly-prolonged three-year La Niña, ocean surface temperatures have risen precipitously over the past two months, reaching record-breaking highs—and a warm El Niño period is forecast to begin sometime within the next few months. Satellite and Argo buoy data gathered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed thatread more
There are certain segments of DNA that have remained relatively unchanged in the tens of millions of years since mammals split from their reptilian forebears— tried and true segments of code that remained unchanged throughout the course of mammalian evolution. However, roughly one million years ago a sudden change inread more
In September 1947 Lieutenant General Nathan F. Twining issued a memo to the Commander of the Army Air Force, Brigadier General George Schulgen, stating that the UFOs were a real phenomenon that displayed operating characteristics that would later be observed in the Tic-Tac, Gimbal and Go Fast videos recorded by naval aviatorsread more
One of the pioneering developers of modern artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, has resigned from Google so he can speak freely about his concerns regarding the dangers and possible misuse—not to mention the potential existential hazards—posed by his own creation: the machine learning networks that power artificial intelligence. “I’m just a scientistread more