Monthly Archives: July 2022

NASA teases list of first celestial objects imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope

JWST’s primary mirror on Earth before it launched | Image: NASA Today, NASA released a list of celestial targets that will be revealed next week when the agency publishes the first full-color images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. The targets include galaxies, nebulas, and a giant planet outside our Solar System….

China lured graduate jobseekers into digital espionage

Enlarge (credit: FT montage | Getty Images | Dreamstime) Chinese university students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature of their jobs: researching Western targets for spying and translating hacked documents as part of Beijing’s industrial-scale intelligence regime. The Financial Times has identified and contacted 140 potential…

An Antarctic feeding frenzy means good news for vulnerable fin whales

A fin whale passes by in the Drake Passage crossing for Ushuaia to Antarctica. oversnap via Getty Images In 2018, a multidisciplinary Antarctic expedition to study the impacts of climate change on krill populations, among other things, uncovered a heartening surprise about one of the crustacean’s prime predators: fin whales. Helicopters dispatched from aboard the…

Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko discusses the crypto downturn at Disrupt

These are turbulent times for both crypto investors and projects alike. Over the past several months, Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen substantial declines in their token prices. But investors have given even bigger haircuts to the breakout success stories of the 2021 bull run. Solana, a newer blockchain with early Silicon Valley backers, has watched…

Massive Facebook survey shows climate investors have more sway on public opinion than you think

Investors are used to using their acumen and financial heft to find companies that might disrupt markets. But it turns out their views and investments might disrupt public opinion, too. A massive survey of Facebook users from around the world shows a vast group of people who are neither convinced that climate change is the…