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[ comments ] Log In Become A Member Quick Search anywhere Enter Search Term science.org Custom publishing collections videos podcasts blogs visualizations prizes and awards authors & reviewers librarians advertisers about help Terms of Service Privacy Policy Accessibility Control issues GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future Go to content DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMANART When Jeremy Kamil started to sequence samples of the rapidly spreading pandemic coronavirus in the spring of 2020, it was clear where he should deposit the genetic data: in GISAID, a long-running database for...

In an image from video provided by the Department of Defense labeled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. “It’s rotating.”Department of Defense via Associated Press The Pentagon’s chief UFO investigator told a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday that even as the number of airborne incidents continue to rise at a rapid clip, they have yet to uncover any evidence of alien life, or an alien intelligence,...

[TAG0]During a summer thunderstorm in 2012, lightning struck a tree in New Port Richey, Florida. The strike released its energy into the tree and the soil and sand around it, creating fulgurite, also known as “fossilized lightning.” This fulgurite was later studied and found to contain a never-before-seen mineral. Fulgurite can be a treasure trove of interesting minerals, mostly in part because of how the extreme energy from the lightning interacts with the minerals already found in their target. This petrified lightning is just one of lightning's many secrets. Secrets that keep scientists digging deeper to learn more. And when...

[TAG0]A group of scientists created “slits” in time, allowing them to send light through the slits in a twist on an experiment first run over 200 years ago. In the original experiment, scientists sent light through slits on a screen, creating a unique pattern across space. Now, though, this new group of researchers has managed to take that experiment a step further. Instead of creating slits in space, they’ve created slits in time using lasers. The pattern created is similar to that of the original experiment and changed the color of an ultra-brief laser pulse. According to reports, these findings...

Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades. One of the most influential figures in the story of computing, he helped to open new pathways for others to explore and dramatically extend: interactive computer graphics, virtual reality, 3D computer graphics, and asynchronous systems, to name but a few.The Computer History Museum recently made public its two-part oral history with Sutherland. These interviews present a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Sutherland’s life in computing, in his own words. The interview transcripts can be downloaded here and here. And the two-part video of the...