These articles showcase the accelerating pace of technological advancement, focusing on two key areas: space exploration and artificial intelligence.
In space, SpaceX's Starship is making remarkable strides, demonstrating successful orbital flights and the use of "mechazilla" arms for catching boosters. While some tests have had mixed results, the rapid development shows a push toward more reusable and efficient space transport. This progress is mirrored by NASA's research into whether it could detect alien civilizations by looking for signs of large-scale solar power harvesting.
Meanwhile, the field of AI is experiencing its own revolution. A Harvard study found AI-generated research papers on Google Scholar, raising concerns about the integrity of academic research. The use of AI tools like ChatGPT is transforming the peer review process, with some venues seeing a significant percentage of reviews written by AI. This has prompted discussions on how to use these powerful tools responsibly, highlighting the need for vigilance and new strategies to fact-check AI outputs.
Taken together, these developments highlight a future where humanity's reach extends further into the cosmos, while our reliance on and integration with AI becomes more complex and fundamental to our intellectual and creative endeavors.
Somewhere in the galaxy, an advanced alien civilization might harness energy from its star. And NASA wants to know if it could detect this activity.The space agency has some powerful telescopes — and it's building more. As scientists increasingly peer at other rocky, Earth-like worlds, they evaluated whether it's possible to pick up signs of widespread...
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SpaceX's fifth Starship test launch — the reusable transportation key to Elon Musk's space goals — has made a successful journey up to orbit and back. Most impressive: It was the first use of the company's futuristic "mechazilla" tech to get its massive vehicle back on the landing pad.The rocket system took off from the private South Texas launchpad...
James Zou, Nature, Nov 08, 2024 According to this article, "at major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence." Of course, the detection of AI writing isn't totally reliable, but as James Zou writes, "reviews penned by AI tools stand out...
SpaceX is on track to have the most powerful space-worthy rocket in history, a vehicle soon expected to outperform NASA's mega moon rocket, which flew its maiden voyage in 2022.The aerospace company, founded by Elon Musk, is laser-focused on bringing Starship into operational use. Since April 2023, SpaceX has launched five test flights of the skyscraping...
If you're using AI for research, here are five ways to catch its lies and fact-check its outputs before you rely on them.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) regularly publishes TechSonar reports on emerging technologies. TechSonar aims to anticipate emerging technology trends: the main aim of this initiative is to better understand future developments in the technology sector from a data protection perspective. Based on the collective intelligence...
FIWARE Foundation, the non-profit organization that encourages the adoption of open standards using Open Source technologies for the development of smart solutions on a global basis — is proudly welcoming seven FIWARE Innovation Hubs (iHubs): CARTIFactory iHub (Boecillo, Valladolid, Spain), Smart Metropolis (Natal, Brazil), NOSC-UA DIH (Kyiv, Ukraine),...
SpaceX launched a new Starship rocket on Thursday, this time with an upgraded spacecraft and 10 mock satellites to practice a cargo delivery in space.But things didn't go as planned. Though the company successfully caught the booster with giant mechanical arms at the launchpad, flight controllers lost contact with the uncrewed spaceship, which prematurely...
Mines pose a significant safety risk to people and animals and prevent the safe use of land after a conflict. The video presents a solution developed in the Smart Mine Detection Project for detecting mines. The project is coordinated by Tampere University of Applied Sciences and funded by Business Finland. More about the project at website: https://projects.tuni.fi/smartminedetection/
Engineers at MIT have created a small, hopping robot designed to traverse challenging environments. The robot utilizes a spring-loaded leg for propulsion and incorporates flapping wing modules for stability and control. This design enables movement across diverse surfaces and the ability to carry loads exceeding its own weight.
We develop technologies and methods to create electronics in sustainable, economical and globally efficient ways to help develop modern society. Our research includes a range of activities on electronics and embedded systems, including printed electronics, thin-film devices and circuits, RF and antenna technology, and low-level software, for industrial,...
Jul 15, 2025 This distracted me for a good half hour, so how could I not pass it along? "The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today. A work in progress, it currently contains 1919 technologies and 2239 connections between them." In my youth I...
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes a monocular visual-based navigation state estimator designed to operate onboard cost-effective Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in monitoring and inspection applications. The estimator exploits a monocular visual odometry solution, named Mono UVO (Monocular Underwater Visual Odometry), integrating acoustic range information...
posted 6m ago by Rahul Yadav, Manjeet Singh, Aseem Verma, Naresh Kumar Chhuneja, Derminder Singh, Paramjit Singh via Journal of Field Robotics ABSTRACT In cotton picking, there is a need for a robotic arm that can pick bolls efficiently with minimal loss and damage to immature bolls. This study addresses that gap by developing a hydraulic arm to work effectively in unstructured cotton fields. A three-degrees-of-freedom hydraulic arm was developed with vertical, radial, and rotational movements,...
posted 6m ago by Mingxuan Ding, Dake Lu, Junlong Wang, Lingzhe Meng, Liquan Wang, Ling Li, Gang Wang via Journal of Field Robotics ABSTRACT The efficacy of field exploration robots is contingent upon their capacity and proficiency in traversing unstructured and complex terrains. In the context of beach terrain, substantial variations in the mechanical properties of the substrate can be triggered by fluctuations in moisture levels within granular materials. This poses a substantial...
Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld, George Veletsianos, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, Sept 03, 2025 This is an interesting paper (13 page PDF) that looks at three major types of metaphor people use to describe generative AI: biological, reasoning, and leadership. Obviously there's some cross-categorization...
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