Category: News
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Bright Star Dimms After Star Erupts 40 Years Ago
HM Sagittae, a long-lived bright nova, was shown to have suddenly increased its brightness and then fade away to a former obscurity after a few months, or years as reported by NASA. New data from the Hubble Space Telescope and SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), now retired, as well as archival data from other…
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High-energy Solar Particles to be Measured with New Instrument
NASA Goddard is the location of the new High-energy Ion Telescope (HIT), a solar energetic particle (SEP) detector. Critical to exploring our solar neighborhood with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), messages are decoded in particles from the Sun and beyond our cosmic shield according to Brookhaven National Laboratory. Solar energetic particles, or SEPs,…
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Skywatching Tips from NASA
Saturn and Mars are meeting up with the Moon while Jupiter returns at dawn. Get these tips for identifying common objects seen in the sky. All month Saturn and Mars are rising in the early morning hours to be joined later in the month by Jupiter. Catch two planets out of the six “parade of…
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New 3D Instagram Experience from NASA
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other telescopes is the basis for a new project providing 3D experiences on Instagram through augmented reality (AR). Uses will travel virtually through objects in space. The new experiences are being released to assist in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the operations from Chandra. Instagram experiences,…
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New Program at NIST to Advance Sociotechnical Testing for AI
The new Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI (ARIA) program will assess the societal risks and impacts of artificial intelligence systems; what happens when people interact with AI regularly in real settings. The new program is intended to help improve understanding of artificial intelligence’s capabilities and impacts. The results of ARIA will support the U.S.…
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AI Tool Assists Wildland Firefighting
NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association) and the Department of Commerce have announced $250,000 in funding to support the development of a new and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model to improve fire weather forecasts. The larger Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is investing in the funding from the agenda of President Biden’s Investing in America. Firefighters…
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Environmental Management Collaborates on AI
The Office of Environmental Management (EM) Office of Technology set its sights upon artificial intelligence and machine learning as part of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable. Participants centered on the results of artificial intelligence and machine learning projects related to advanced contaminant plume characterization. The group also looked at predictive modeling and improved cleanup efficiency.…
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The NSF and AI-Driven STEM Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation plans to fund innovative projects harnessing the potential of artificial Intelligence and aims to increase participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields and equip researchers helping address the world’s most important challenges. The NSF supports research projects in AI research spanning multiple disciplines. One such program is the…
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Europe Initiates Landmark AI Rules
According to Reuters (https://reuters.com), Europe will initiate landmark rules on artificial intelligence in June of 2024. The ruling came alongside a political deal reached in December and set a potential benchmark for the technology.The approach by the European Union is more in depth and comprehensive than the voluntary compliance of the United States. The AI…