Jeff Hecht

science and technology writer

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

NASA's Perseverance rover has reached the rim of the Jezero crater and is on its way to explore Witch Hazel Hill
https://t.co/fW8xX29oLt

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

By far the oldest and largest impact crater has been found on Venus https://t.co/jiztbIinsq

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

We finally have found where most meteorites come from https://t.co/DVRW9UDZcT

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

Did Earth have a ring long before dinosaurs roamed? It looks possible. https://t.co/ExmgZwKWVv

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

@MEStatePolice You can't make these things up. Why did a presumably experienced truck driver think he could get a giant wind turbine blade under under a railroad bridge.

[NatureFutures @NatureFutures]

Today is the day. The hearing. A chance to put the case. To convince them that this is imperative. That it is worth the cost. That we owe the debt to those who went before. That it is our destiny. We must create a new colony on Mars.

#scifi by @jeffhecht https://t.co/Q1g4Niv4o3

[Sky & Telescope @SkyandTelescope]

“Leopard spots” on a Mars rock could come from life — or they could simply be a sign of a type of chemical reaction that requires water. Read more from @jeffhecht here: https://t.co/cTGSRmjo1U

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

Training AI on AI-generated documents churns out gibberish, reports a Nature paper. https://t.co/uAMBRqf26Q? Pretty damn obvious and very dangerous.

[Eugenie Reich @EugenieReich]

This was a tragic (but really well reported) article in Tech Review. When I was working on Plastic Fantastic, some physicists said, this (2002 fraud) case was isolated and will be unlikely to recur as we can easily address the enabling factors. Go figure. https://t.co/lAwnsZSyXU

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

@jjaron Weird. Monroe (at the end) may have something. As I understand it, the power of a quantum computer increases very rapidly with the number of Qbits. Maybe the governments have pulled the number of Qbits out of the air to make others think they know where the limit is.

[Jim Kirkland @Paleojim]

Ai has no place in science or in scientific illustration!!!

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

@jjaron The dot-com bubble and collapse was really weird, loaded with smoke, mirrors and fraud. This one won't be exactly the same, but a lot of valuation is going to end up as smoke, mirrors and likely fraud

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

@HNTurtledove @TeePublic Nice -- Happy bday

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Ed Stone, https://t.co/l5EfmkGNL4 Voyager project scientist, former JPL director and one of the greats of space science. Before that he was my freshman physics TA at Caltech, and a great teacher as well. He will be missed.

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

A surprise in the inner part of the main asteroid belt -- NASA's Lucy mission found the 720-meter asteroid Dinkinesh has a contact binary moon with two twin lobes locked in orbit. https://t.co/08sOT0mAf5

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

@jjaron Look at the troubles of self-driving cars and you can see the future of AI.

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

@jdhowgego Here in the US it's paywalled if you don't have a subscription.

[WitmerLab @WitmerLab]

There are few things as exciting in our little corner of science as a new specimen of Archaeopteryx...with a skull...in a major, easily accessible museum! Congratulations to @FieldMuseum & @Paleontologista! These lovely photos are from this great article: https://t.co/29Qj5o62GM

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

Does using GPS rot your brain? Not exactly, but finding your own way around may exercise it enough to stave off dementia. https://t.co/Wx46sGT9DD

[Jeff Hecht @jeffhecht]

Astronomers at four sites spotted a sun-grazing comet during the April 8 eclipse. https://t.co/MlpSyGr92C