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• New 'Computer Prophet' generates profound metaphors for life and death

  UCLA student Elias Henriksen created the AI-powered Computer Prophet to answer existential questions through novel metaphors. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Seriously, masks are your friend

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hello from the lockdown trenches, Since Tristan's taking a much-needed break -- and seriously, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The importance of the space industry in a post-pandemic world

  With all of the immense challenges we face on Earth this year, space can feel like an afterthought. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope of a growing space industry was palpable. Ribbons were cut, buildings were dedicated, and Australia’s space industry was going to triple ...

  • The Conversation

• We won't reach other solar systems for a while — robots could visit them first

  Many great movies and television shows, including the Lost in Space reboot, show various versions of interstellar travel. SpaceX and the new space race are making space geeks salivate at the thought. To those like myself who’ve cherished the idea since the debut of the Starship ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Behavioral science is key to making the UK's track and trace app a success

  Originally planned to roll out in May, the UK’s track and trace app has now been delayed until winter. Part of the government’s wider test, track and trace strategy, the app uses Bluetooth on smartphones to see who infected people have been in close contact with, and uses this ...

  • The Conversation

• Why girls are less likely to pursue a career in STEM — even though they score just as high as boys at school

  Last month, the Australian Academy of Science published a report showing the COVID-19 pandemic would disproportionately affect women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) disciplines. The report noted before COVID-19, around 7,500 women were employed in STEM ...

  • The Conversation

• Large doses of vitamin D may protect you from COVID-19 — but it's also toxic

  It has been suggested that taking vitamin D may protect people from getting COVID-19. But should we be using supplements to ward off the virus? We need to separate fact from fiction. Vitamin D is essential for maintaining overall health, especially for bones, teeth, and muscles. ...

  • The Conversation

• Just wear the $%#@ing mask

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola pandemic pals, The whole time this pandemic's been going on, the world's been looking ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How aliens could use black holes to power an intergalactic civilization

  Remember when I warned everyone that humans would probably destroy all life in the universe like construction workers killing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Space exploration is expensive, but it's worth the price

  I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men to the Moon. ...

  • Aeon

• Super-puff worlds: These Jupiter-sized planets are light as cotton candy

  Astronomers once believed that most solar systems would be much like our own, with small rocky planets near their sun, accompanied ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• The story of Ed Dwight: the man who nearly became the first African-American to reach space

  Ed Dwight may not be remembered by many space aficionados, but he very nearly became a household name, spoken in the same ...

  • The Cosmic Companion