Moon, Mercury and meteors: Don't miss these 3 events in the May sky

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Astronomers say we may live at the center of a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide that defies the laws of cosmology
If this gigantic cosmic void does exist, it could help astronomers solve one of the greatest mysteries of our universe.
Popular Mechanics
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America
New Mexico’s ancient sands reveal the oldest-known traces of early inhabitants.
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'It came from the sky:' Saskatchewan farmer finds hunk of space junk in field
Barry Sawchuk doesn’t usually concern himself with space or the final frontier. The 66-year-old Saskatchewan farmer is much more focused on seeding. But when he found a giant piece of debris in his fields, Sawchuk said he was shocked to learn it was likely part of a rocket. “Not every day you go out in your field and find space junk,” Sawchuk said with a laugh in an interview from the front seat of his tractor. Sawchuk, who farms with his three sons near Ituna, northeast of Regina, was checking
Popular Mechanics
A Shocking Discovery in High-Temperature Superconductors May Start the New Age of Power
Explore the shocking discovery in high-temperature superconductors that may initiate a new era of power.
Miami Herald
‘Large’ sea creature — with ‘blade-like’ claws — discovered as new species. See it
Scientists found the spiny animal while aboard a submersible in the South China Sea.
Reuters
Boeing Starliner's crew debut delayed again over spacecraft issue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing's first Starliner mission carrying astronauts into space has been delayed again - until at least May 21 - over an issue with the spacecraft's propulsion system, the company said on Tuesday. Starliner's mission carrying two NASA astronauts had been scheduled for liftoff from Florida last week until a technical issue with its Atlas 5 rocket prompted a delay to Friday, May 17, the latest postponement for a program years behind schedule and more than $1.5 billion over budget. A new technical issue, now concerning Starliner itself, has prompted another postponement to at least next Tuesday, Boeing said in a statement.
CBC
Saskatchewan farmer finds part of a SpaceX rocket in his field
Barry Sawchuk and his son were out in his field planning this year's seeding when they found what they thought at first was garbage, but it turned out to be the remains of a SpaceX rocket re-entry from back in February.
Miami Herald
Medieval castle — a ‘witness to centuries of change’ — excavated in the UK. See it
The castle was once a “hub of medieval life,” archaeologists said.
The Canadian Press
Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in almost 2 decades, but Earth should be out of the way this time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly two decades Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed places. “Not done yet!” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in an update. It's the biggest flare of this 11-year solar cycle, which is approaching its peak, according to NOAA. The good news is that Earth should be out of the line of fire this time because the flare erupted on
The Conversation
Black holes are mysterious, yet also deceptively simple − a new space mission may help physicists answer hairy questions about these astronomical objects
Studying theoretical, fast-spinning black holes is helping physicists understand more about the elusive black holes out in the universe.
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CO2 increasing 10 times faster than any point in last 50,000 years – study
Scientists in the US and at the University of St Andrews studied ancient Antarctic ice to make the discovery.
Futurism
We're Detecting No Alien Civilizations Because They Were Destroyed by AI, Astrophysicist Proposes
If we're alone in the universe, astrophysicist Michael Garrett says it might be because aliens shared an existential problem that we're only just beginning to reckon with: powerful AIs. The advent of an artificial superintelligence (ASI), Garrett proposes in a paper published in the journal Acta Astronautica, could be preventing the long-term survival of alien […]
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Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1
The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest month, summer and year on record. But those records only go back to 1850 at best because it's based on thermometers. Now scientists can go back to the modern western calendar's year 1, when the Bible says Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth, but have found no hotter northern summer than last ye
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Images show what it's like to fall into a black hole
A NASA astrophysicist simulated what it would look like to fall into a black hole, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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Northern lights fill skies around Kingston
The aurora borealis lit up the sky in Kingston and other areas over the weekend, with powerful solar storms causing a uniquely vibrant northern light show in parts of the US, Canada, and Europe. The phenomenon is caused by the sun essentially recycling material from its core which is sometimes launched towards earth, where it interacts with chemicals within the earth's atmosphere. Typically, the lights seen are a greenish colour because the bulk of our atmosphere consists of nitrogen. Normally w
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Noise reduction: Human differences in judgment affect performance of AI
Auditing AI systems for bias is somewhat commonplace, so we believe that the concept of a noise audit should naturally follow. We hope that this study, as well as others like it, leads to their adoption.
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It was their job to make sure humans are safe from OpenAI's superintelligence. They just quit.
Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever led the Superalignment team, aiming to figure out how to make sure AI systems much smarter than humans don't go rogue.
The Conversation
Summer 2023 was northern hemisphere’s hottest for 2,000 years, tree rings show
On a regional scale, global warming exceeded the Paris agreement’s upper climate target in the northern hemisphere.
CNN
Mystery of warm-blooded dinosaurs could be unraveled by new study
Dinosaurs were initially cold-blooded, but global warming 180 million years ago may have triggered the evolution of warm-blooded species, a new study found.
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Astronaut born in Wheat Ridge reflects on spending time in space aboard the International Space Station
An astronaut born in Wheat Ridge reflects on spending time in space aboard the International Space Station.

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