On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down…
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In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word…
In the Netflix series Adolescence, we have no idea why Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested at the beginning of the…
Social media has recently been flooded with images that looked like they belonged in a Studio Ghibli film. Selfies, family photos…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one…
Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one…
When top White House defense and national security leaders discussed plans for an attack on targets in Yemen over the messaging app…
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have…
Legend has it that William Tell shot an apple from his young son’s head. While there are many interpretations of the…
How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music…