Category: Technology

Lockheed Martin and US Space Force The UK government has announced £65 million in funding for a new system called Borealis which is intended to help the UK military defend its satellites against threats. Borealis is a software system that collates and processes data to strengthen the UK military’s ability to monitor what’s going on […]

Rabat, April 2025 — Morocco’s national social security agency has confirmed it suffered a major cyberattack this week, resulting in the theft and online publication of sensitive personal data. The breach, described as one of the most significant in the country’s history, targeted the Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (CNSS), which manages pensions, health insurance, […]

In the 1987 classic film RoboCop, the deceased Detroit cop Alex Murphy is reborn as a cyborg. He has a robotic body and a full brain-computer interface that allows him to control his movements with his mind. He can access online information such as suspects’ faces, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help detect threats, and […]

Ruslan Suseynov/Shutterstock In Antarctica’s freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science and medicine. Some of the most intense battles against the environment are waged by the smallest of creatures. When it’s cold, we, as warm-blooded (endothermic), animals simply put on a coat. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — April 2025A key U.S. Senate committee has approved former President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the federal government’s $42 billion broadband expansion initiative, advancing the selection to the full Senate for confirmation. The Senate Commerce Committee voted on Thursday to move forward with the nomination of Mark Hollinger, a former telecom executive […]

Lab-grown meat causes heated debates. Proponents see benefits for the climate and animal welfare. Opponents worry about a Frankenstein food they regard as risky and unnatural. Whatever your opinion, the technology underpinning cultivated meat is moving fast to create large pieces of muscle tissue. The fact that artificial meat starts as a living tissue means […]

A team of scientists led by RAL Space, operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Imperial College London has created the deepest ever image of the Universe in long far-infrared wavelengths, revealing almost 2,000 distant galaxies. The resulting image is called the Herschel-SPIRE Dark Field. The research suggests the existence of a […]

Were Earth's oceans once green? 100Y Design/Shutterstock Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese researchers have made a compelling case that Earth’s oceans were once green, in a study published in Nature. The reason Earth’s oceans may have looked different […]

Colossal Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With their names Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, these pups are playing to the cultural imagination, blending ancient mythology with fantasy fiction. Romulus and Remus […]

The A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE), ATLAS, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), and Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaborations at CERN’s LHC have been awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics. Celebrating extraordinary achievements Professor Sinead Farrington, Director of Particle Physics at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), said: The Breakthrough Prize celebrates extraordinary […]