Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones,…
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A massive IT outage is currently affecting computer systems worldwide. In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, reports indicate computers at banks, media organisations,…
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In November 2022, the UN symbolically declared that the 8 billionth human being had been born in Manilla, Philippines, thus…
For the past few weeks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the International Space Station…
Helicopters draw a lot of attention with their almost magical ability to hover, fly in any direction and operate without…
The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has had such a profound effect on big tech companies that their energy consumption, and…
Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385…
Last week, two big names in the artificial intelligence (AI) and wellness industries announced a collaboration to develop a “customised, hyper-personalised AI…
Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars,…