HPR4708: Controles Lógicos Programáveis - Episódio 1
...e seu uso de cartões perfurados como uma das tecnologias que eventualmente levaram à computação.…
Body found at bottom of Scottish well may be from rare ritual burial performed centuries ago
An Iron Age grave has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. The person was buried within what may have been a ritual well.…
Touchdown! Private Chinese rocket aces landing on 2nd-ever flight
The Beijing-based company LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), notching a huge milestone for commercial Chinese spaceflight.…
The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know ho…
The Most Revealing Question We Could Ask Aliens
If humanity ever makes contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, we will have no shortage of questions. Where did they come from? How old is t…
Imagens da LRO da NASA mostram cratera de Falcon 9 na Lua e revelam novos detalhes
Entre 11 e 12 de agosto, o orbitador de reconhecimento lunar (LRO) da NASA capturou uma série de imagens de uma nova cratera na Lua. A cratera se formou em 5 de…
Peptides are the latest wellness fad. What are they, and are they safe?
An FDA advisory panel has recommended making six unapproved peptides more accessible through compounding pharmacies — but scientists warn that easier access doe…
Forget 'Halo' — the latest 'Futurama' episode has a ring world covered in super-intelligent rats (exclusive)
Ringed worlds seem to be a fertile source of science fiction material, whether it be in sci-fi master Larry Niven's circular alien constructs in his "Ringworld"…
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they w…
The bacteria that make cheese taste so good may also benefit your gut
Scientists studying three artisan British cheeses found that the microbes responsible for their distinctive flavors may also offer surprising benefits for gut h…
O Desafio de Aviação Estudantil da NASA foca na infraestrutura nacional
A próxima competição Gateways to Blue Skies da NASA convida equipes universitárias a imaginarem novas maneiras inovadoras em que aeronaves poderiam inspecionar …
Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible
Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.…
NASA astronaut and 1st female French spacewalker remove failed ISS antenna but run out of time for replacement
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and first female French spacewalker Sophie Adenot removed a failed antenna but ran out of time to install its replacement at the Inter…
The role of the astronaut is in flux
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever ventured fr…
Einstein’s biggest “mistake” came back — and changed cosmology forever
Einstein’s abandoned cosmological constant made a spectacular comeback when astronomers discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. It now sits at…
O B777 da NASA ganha uma nova camada de tinta
O Boeing 777 da NASA exibe uma nova pintura nesta foto de 11 de agosto de 2026. O B777 foi adquirido para substituir e ampliar as capacidades do NASA DC-8, que …
'Beyond human intuition': AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine
Three new AI-designed chip components are just a few micrometers long and go beyond what human engineers have previously envisaged.…
Starship lives! SpaceX craft arrives at Christmas Island after 24-day ocean ordeal
After Starship's test launch and splashdown last month, SpaceX recovery teams have successfully tugged the vehicle through a turbulent stretch of the Indian Oce…
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate …
O Legado de Glenn da NASA forjado ao longo de décadas de pesquisa de voo
Muitos dos avanços mais importantes da NASA em tecnologia aeroespacial que começaram no laboratório foram comprovados, finalmente, no céu. Por décadas, especial…
The pace of climate change matters more than overall heat in the race to save key Atlantic currents, study finds
The rate of global warming, rather than the extra heat itself, could determine whether a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning C…









