How 2 astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon

Two astrophotographers have teamed up to produce an out-of-this-world photo of the moon, capturing over 200,000 shots to create a single image. Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne collaborated last November to push their photography skills to the limit. Their finished product was posted online Saturday, and is currently gaining lots of attention on Reddit.

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Science opponents believe their knowledge ranks among the highest, but it is actually among the lowest

People with the greatest opposition to the scientific consensus tend to have the lowest levels of objective science knowledge but the highest levels of self-rated knowledge, according to new research published in Science Advances. The findings are in line with the Dunning-Kruger effect, a well-documented phenomenon in which people who are lacking in skills or knowledge tend to overestimate their abilities.

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Can you switch off and move on from your bad habits?

Possessing bad habits in our hectic daily life is not new in the modern world. In our stressful and competitive energy, we often tend to attach ourselves to certain activities which eventually overpower us, blooming into bad habits from which we find challenging to drift away. Imagine one day consulting a doctor regarding switching off your bad habit of smoking.

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Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”

MIT engineers fabricated a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin.” The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals related to pulse, sweat, and ultraviolet exposure, without bulky chips or batteries.

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For half an hour on Friday, Australia was running on more solar power than coal

For about half an hour on Friday, the national energy market caught a glimpse of what a renewables-powered future might look like.

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It's not science fiction. Scientists think 'space bubbles' could possibly save the planet.

Not everyone is into science or even cares how it works. But sometimes science is too cool to ignore. The scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are revisiting an old hypothesis from the late 1980s by astronomer Roger Angel on creating bubbles in space to make an umbrella of sorts to shade Earth. Yeah, they're suggesting space bubbles. Following advances in technology over the last 30 years, they now think they've figured out how to do it.

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Did Neanderthals Make Art?

AS A NEANDERTHAL RESEARCHER, I’m familiar with the stereotypes of Homo neanderthalensis: dull, unintelligent, lacking the imagination to do more than bash each other on the head. They just sat around, gnawing on mammoth, awaiting their inevitable extinction. So, in 2018, I was excited when I saw a headline announcing “It’s Official: Neanderthals Created Art.”

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