First firm to hire a virtual attorney. It’ll be handling bankruptcies….
The American Lawyer reports on Ross, the newest legal mind to join Baker & Hostetler – despite being an artificial intelligence programmed to analyze bankruptcy […]
Science
…or maybe not.
From the Facebook desk of archaeologist Katie Rask (seconded by others) comes the following correction: From the world renowned Maya specialist and Linda Schele Professor […]
So, a 15-year-old just discovered a Mayan city… without leaving home.
All kinds of news outlets have picked up this Le Journal de Montreal story on William Gadoury, a teenager who noticed that Mayan constellations lined […]
Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.
Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]
David Attenborough… and Subby McSubface
BBC has the final outcome of the Boaty McBoatface saga – the research vessel will be named after documentarist Sir David Attenborough, but will have […]
Human embryos grown for two weeks in lab.
Nature has followed history’s longest-cultured human embryos: Developmental biologists have grown human embryos in the lab for up to 13 days after fertilization, shattering the […]
Go ask Joe Palca a question.
Long-time science journalist Joe Palca (NPR, Science, Nature) will be answering questions at a Reddit AMA around 1pm today. If you’ve got a question you […]
China’s going to land a person on the moon.
Reuters reports on the goal being set for the world to see – one of China’s top space officials says they’ll put a human on […]
Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.
Click to embiggen It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery. This is […]
How can slime mold learn? But it does….
Wired investigates an organism – not even an animal, doesn’t even have internal organs or nerves, much less a brain – that still somehow learns […]
A new moon in the outer solar system.
So first, there’s a dwarf planet called Makemake. And now, says Space.com, Hubble found out that it has a moon: Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space […]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation isn’t doing what we thought.
Science magazine has some interesting – and rather weird – findings about the new “brain-zapping” technology that uses magnets to affect brain states. Apparently, as […]
Science Art: Restoration of Pliocene fauna of North America, Smithsonian Museum.
Click to embiggen vastly This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago. […]
Well, *anyone* could misplace a 600-mile barrier reef! Right?
The Atlantic (the magazine, not the ocean) just located a giant reef no one knew existed near the mouth of the Amazon River: A team […]
We’re closing in on Planet Nine. (Or X. Whatever.)
Wired (with a little help from Cassini) narrows our search for the hidden, big planet orbiting the fringes of the solar system: Matthew J. Holman […]