Active sunscape

Mark Johnston from Scottsdale, Arizona Prominences play on the limb of the Sun in this image taken June 7. The post Active sunscape appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones

Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The […]

Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, like o3, especially on problems of medium to high complexity (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: Apple researchers detail the limitations of top LLMs and large reasoning models, like o3, especially on problems of medium to high complexity  —  LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb  —  Quoth Josh Wolfe, well-respected venture capitalist at Lux […]

June 8, 1625: The birth of Giovanni Cassini

Giovanni Cassini was born in Perinaldo, in what is now Italy, on June 8, 1625. Early work on Jupiter and Mars’ rotational periods and the positions of Jupiter’s satellites led to an invitation to Paris and the Academie des Sciences by King Louis XIV; he became director of the Observatorie […]