7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries are breached(planetaryhealthcheck.org)

12 points by geox 1 month ago | 4 comments

Landing page for the Planetary Health Check 2026 report, stating that 7 of 9 planetary boundaries are breached and offering the report for download.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun(blogs.nasa.gov)

73 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 14 comments

Kepler.gl(kepler.gl)

153 points by 9woc 1 year ago | 19 comments

Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet(science.nasa.gov)

12 points by gmays 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling, Prompting New Climate Concerns(e360.yale.edu)

77 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 58 comments

This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in 120k years(cnn.com)

83 points by rntn 3 years ago | 82 comments

JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet(smithsonianmag.com)

319 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 138 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on the James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet discovery via direct imaging, made by blocking the host star's glare.

James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise(smithsonianmag.com)

333 points by instagraham 1 year ago | 276 comments

Smithsonian Magazine Smart News article on a JWST-based study finding most distant galaxies rotate clockwise, with possible explanations including a black-hole universe.

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter(anthropic.com)

36 points by artninja1988 13 days ago | 26 comments

Anthropic Frontier Red Team post reporting experiments suggesting small AI models may soon self-replicate on commercial IoT devices without datacenter access.

What to Know About JavaScript in 2026(blog.master.dev)

17 points by eustoria 1 month ago | 2 comments

A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.

James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity(thedebrief.org)

331 points by jchanimal 1 year ago | 151 comments

The Debrief article reporting that James Webb Space Telescope observations provide evidence supporting an alternate theory of gravity.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.