This is not a ukelele in UV light. What you’re seeing is a beautiful species of Foraminifera in polarized light.
Astronomers are claiming to have found the biggest known structure in the known Universe.
The structure is called the BOSS Great Wall. No, the scientists are not necessarily fans of Bruce Springsteen, BOSS stands for Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey which is part of the more well known Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
What you see here is a thermal (or mid) infrared image that was recently announced as a finalist in Wellcome Images of the year awards. The two hands on display here would seem perfectly similar and normal if they weren’t photographed in this way. Each hand was held in cold water for two minutes before
We are currently witnessing one of the big milestones in Artificial General Intelligence. An AI has beaten the best human GO player in the world.
As of this writing, 10-year world champion, Lee Sedol has lost the first two games of a best-of-five match against Google’s Deep Mind AI program, called AlphaGo. The match is taking place in Seoul, South Korea from March 9 -15, 2016.