Category: Technology

When it comes to its connection to the sky, Stonehenge is best known for its solar alignments. Every midsummer’s night tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and witness the rising Sun in alignment with the Heel stone standing outside of the circle. Six months later a smaller crowd congregates around the […]

Arsenale ‘Plan B’ Hybrid Adventure electric bike Arsenale Arsenale introduced ‘Plan B’, a lightweight, long-range, 2-wheel-drive hybrid electric bike. This special electric bike called the 2X2 Ultra, is designed for tough conditions like rain, snow, or sand, created to conquer challenging terrain slowly but surely. Arsenale Each wheel has a 1,000-watt motor powered by a […]

I finally locate the legendary Schneiders Buero, a shop selling analogue synthesizers in Berlin’s Kotti neighbourhood. Up two flights of stairs, the music machinery on offer includes brands such as Moog and Buchla, as well as modern euro-racks. Each set-up contains headphones and boxes of patch cables. There are no instructions and the machines, while […]

NASA/Jim Ross NASA photographer Jim Ross was honored for a thrilling inverted in-flight aerobatic maneuvers image. Riding in the back seat of a regular car might not be the most exciting thing, but riding in the back of a NASA aircraft? That’s a whole different story! Just ask Jim Ross, the photo lead at NASA’s […]

It may be difficult to imagine, but the county of Somerset in south-west England was once home to what may have been the largest marine reptiles that ever lived, my team’s new study reveals. A strange and enormous jawbone was discovered on the English coastline eight years ago, but my team was hesitant to identify […]

Humans are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to inform decisions about our lives. AI is, for instance, helping to make hiring choices and offer medical diagnoses. If you were affected, you might want an explanation of why an AI system produced the decision it did. Yet AI systems are often so computationally complex that not […]

Riva El-Iseo Fully-Electric Motor Yacht Credit Riva Yacht Riva’s El-Iseo marks the famed boat builder’s debut in fully electric motor yachts. The Riva El-Iseo with its cutting-edge Italian design, and noiseless eco-friendly power system, measures 8.4 meters (27 feet) in length and boasts a maximum width of 2.5 meters. Credit Riva Yacht The sleek vessel […]

Web and mobile services try to understand the desires and goals of users by analysing how their interact with their platforms. Smartphones, for instance, capture online data from users at a large scale and low cost. Policymakers have reacted by enforcing mechanisms to mitigate the risks inherent in tech companies storing and processing their citizens’ […]

Africa is home to more than 20% of the world’s bat population. There are over 200 species to be found on the continent. South Africa is particularly diverse, with 72 bat species. I am a zoologist who has studied bats for many years. Recently, while doing some reading about South Africa’s fossils, I started wondering […]

An artist’s impression of the star’s orbit with the black hole.  ESO/L. Calçada A huge stellar black hole just 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, 33 times as massive as the Sun, was discovered. Scientists have found the largest stellar black hole ever seen in our Milky Way using data from the Gaia mission […]