HANKSVILLE, Utah – For generations, scientists and dreamers have looked to the sky and wondered what it would be like to live on Mars. This curiosity has led to the establishment of the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS)—not on Mars, but in the Martian-like landscape of Hanksville, Utah. When you see the beautiful scenery of … Read more
Building compact behavioral programs. (A) Top: The space of strategies for solving a task can be large, with many strategies achieving reasonably good performance. Bottom line: Studying relationships between strategies can provide insight into behavioral variability across animals and tasks. (B) General task configuration: An animal makes inferences about hidden properties of the environment to … Read more
Three AI acquirers recently announced stock splits. But which one is better to buy today? With the AI revolution in full swing, stock prices of favored semiconductor stocks have been on the rise. In late May, I identified five AI stocks that needed to be split. Lo and behold, three have already announced splits since … Read more
Artist’s impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. Light from a background star located in the LMC is bent by a putative primordial black hole (lens) in the galactic halo and magnified when observed from Earth. Microlensing causes very characteristic variation in the brightness … Read more
You may be familiar with the “arrow of time,” but did you know there may be a second one? Dr. Robert Hazen, staff scientist at the Carnegie Earth and Planetary Science Laboratory in Washington, DC, thinks that a single arrow of time can be too restrictive. A second arrow, which he calls “the law of … Read more