With GWM-1 family of “world models,” Runway shows ambitions beyond Hollywood

Lastly, GWM Avatars combines generative video and speech in a unified model to produce human-like avatars that emote and move ...
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Ancient lake on Mars may have risen and fallen under the tidal pull of a long lost moon

Thin layers of sedimentary rock in Mars’s Gale Crater suggest that the planet once had a moon much larger than the two that ...

Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model

Runway debuts a physics-aware world model that simulates reality to train agents and power video, robotics and avatar ...

A worker cooperative is a different form of employee benefit. Some say it’s better

Thinking of selling your business? Or starting a business? You may want to consider a worker cooperative. This type of business structure is different from a consumer cooperative, where customers each ...
New Scientist

Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
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New Evidence Points To Where Our Moon’s Parent Planet Came From

When it comes to the origin of our planet’s moon, the giant-impact theory is the most widely accepted premise. According to the theory, a massive planet-sized body slammed into the young Earth around ...

New AI Tech Maps the 100 Billion Stars in Our Galaxy With Unprecedented Detail and Speed

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.
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The Origins of Theia, the Cosmic Impactor that Violently Birthed the Moon, Has Finally Been Revealed

Theia, the colossal, Mars-sized impactor that collided with the Earth to birth our Moon, may have come from the direction of the Sun, answering a fundamental question about the formation of our solar ...
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Theia – The Giant Impactor That Formed The Moon – Assembled Closer To The Sun Than Earth Is Now

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
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Ancient planetary smash that created moon may have formed Hawaiʻi, too

Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it pushes us to imagine the planet in its earliest and wildest days.
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Ancient planetary smash that created moon may have formed Hawaiʻi, too

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it pushes us to imagine the planet in its earliest and wildest ...