Margherita Bassi

1 week ago | smithsonianmag.com | Margherita Bassi

Most of what we know about the elusive creature comes from research on its remains found in whale stomachs, but scientists just filmed a one-foot-long juvenile in the South Atlantic Ocean A team of researchers has just revealed the first confirmed footage of a colossal squid alive in its natural habitat. The squid in the video offers an unprecedented look at the mysterious, deep-sea species—and on top of that, it’s a juvenile.

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Margherita Bassi

When work runs long, the commute home is slow, and cooking dinner takes forever (you promised yourself you’d stop ordering takeout), it’s normal to try to squeeze in a quick workout before crashing. Better than not exercising at all, right? Unfortunately, a recent study has bad news for you: Intense workouts shortly before bedtime may negatively impact your sleep.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Margherita Bassi

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1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Margherita Bassi

In high school Earth science, you likely learned that form when strong upward winds push water droplets to freezing altitudes, where they solidify and gather additional layers of ice as they cycle up and down the storm cloud. When they grow too heavy, they plummet to the ground. For once, however, new research suggests that the truth might be simpler than what we were taught to believe.

1 week ago | smithsonianmag.com | Margherita Bassi

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA’s retired NEOWISE telescope In a leap forward for astronomy, a researcher has developed an artificial intelligence algorithm and discovered more than one million objects in space by parsing through understudied data from a NASA telescope. The breakthrough is detailed in a study published in November in The Astronomical Journal.