In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even…
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On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called…
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from…
Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution medical imaging all have something in common. These technologies – some under development…
Over the Thanksgiving travel period an estimated 30 million Americans plan to fly to enjoy turkey and all the trimmings with far-flung…
In August 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the electric car manufacturer was planning to get into the robot business. In a…
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
People consider creativity to be inherently human. However, artificial intelligence (AI) has reached the stage where it can be creative…
Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same…
Russia’s Sputnik kicked off the space age in 1957. But Africa didn’t join until 1999. Why? Sputnik happened partly due to…