Category: Technology

gguy/Shutterstock Friday the 13th turned out to very unlucky indeed for Microsoft. A major outage of the tech giant’s services put a halt to digital communication for millions across the world. So after UK government warnings to to prepare for a possible cyber-attack, perhaps the bigger threat to the online world is simply the fragile […]

At this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, US President Donald Trump stated that people from Somalia have low IQs. “I always say these are low-IQ people,” he said in his speech. His son, Donald Trump Jr, made a similar statement about Haitian people in 2024 (Trump’s government has since ended the protected status […]

The behaviour of every atom, and so all of biology and chemistry as we know them, depends on the mass of the electron. Electrons are one of the fundamental particles (the very smallest building blocks of nature) that make up the atom. They orbit the atom’s central nucleus, which is made up of proton and […]

Kim Wolhuter, CC BY Black rhinos are notoriously aggressive, not just to humans, but also to their fellow black rhinos. Aggression is so prevalent that injuries sustained after fighting with another black rhino are a common cause of death. Because of this aggression and their solitary nature, black rhino social behaviour has been largely unexplored. […]

Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, but their origins remain uncertain. Were they asteroids captured by Mars’ gravity, or did they form from debris following a giant impact on the planet? Japan’s Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission aims to solve this mystery by collecting samples of soil from Phobos, the largest of the […]

The results of the US midterms on November 3 delivered a resounding victory for the Democrats, and a major loss for US president Donald Trump and the Republican party. Gaining control of the Senate and the House of Representatives has emboldened the Democrats, giving them a renewed sense of political legitimacy and a mandate to […]

Photobank-2/Shutterstock.com According to the late Heinz von Foerster, Friday, November 13 2026, is doomsday. Professor von Foerster and two colleagues at the University of Illinois published that prediction in 1960 in the respected journal Science. The paper has been widely discussed ever since. Theirs was an unconventional vision of doomsday, brought about by the world’s […]

Pickaxe Mountain (Kūh-e Kolang Gaz Lā) lies in the Karkas mountains of central Iran (image shows view of Karkas range from near Tarq). Petr Kahanek / Shutterstock Iran has become a test of Donald Trump’s credibility at home as well as his power abroad. The war and rising fuel prices contributed to the Republican defeat […]

A collection of miscellaneous artefacts from Caherconnell Cashel. Michelle Comber Popular media, from computer games to movies, often portrays medieval life as being dominated by fighters and farmers. In these depictions, there’s little evidence of a world beyond political struggle and simple subsistence. Leisure activities are often overlooked, despite the fact that they existed in […]

BEIJING — Tech giant Xiaomi has reached a landmark 800,000 electric vehicle (EV) deliveries just 29 months after handing over its first production car. The rapid scaling of the company’s automotive division highlights a major shift toward software-defined, hyper-automated manufacturing in China’s competitive EV market. At full operating speed, Xiaomi’s 720,000-square-meter Beijing EV plant rolls […]