Category: Technology

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been cast as a problem in the urgent, international effort to tackle climate change. As AI plays a greater role in our lives, it will need enormous amounts of computing power and data storage. As such, the carbon footprint of AI is projected to expand due to its high energy […]

Earth was long thought to be the only planet in our Solar System with an ocean, but it is beginning to look as though there are underground oceans inside even the most surprising icy bodies. In fact, icy moons and dwarf planets in the outer Solar System appear to have liquid oceans below layers of […]

NASA The White House has tasked NASA to develop the Lunar Time Standard, to support the Artemis program while maintaining America’s leadership in space exploration. According to Reuters, NASA aims to create Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) by 2026, necessitating precise synchronization of Earth and lunar clocks. While aligning Earth’s time systems is straightforward, lunar time […]

Alisa Givertz, founder of Liquid360 and winner of the 2024 Next-Gen Womens Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by the Luzzatto Group at the Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit on March 27, says that the idea for creating her start-up came about when her youngest child, then five years old, disappeared from the New York hotel room where […]

A landmark new study has found that, in the last decade, the African continent has started emitting more carbon than it stores. When the total amount of carbon that is sequestered by natural ecosystems (such as the soil and plants in grasslands, savannas and forests) exceeds the amount of total carbon emissions within a system, […]

RocketStar FireStar Fusion Drive revolutionizes space propulsion and is a big leap into the future of space travel. RocketStar completely transforms spacecraft engines with the latest breakthrough in space travel: the FireStar Fusion Drive. It’s the first-ever fusion-powered electric propulsion system, revolutionizing how we move through space. The FireStar Fusion Drive takes our existing water-fueled […]

Starship Simulator video game created by Dan Govier, making the spaceships like real-life navy ships, complete with all the wiring and plumbing. The game takes place in a huge Galaxy that’s as big as the real thing, with tons of other planets and creatures to explore. “Welcome to Starship Simulator, a deeply immersive space exploration sandbox […]

A multi-billion pound criminal enterprise lurks amid our supermarket shelves. Food crime not only harms our wallets but threatens public health. It includes activities such as mislabelling a product, replacing a food or ingredient with another substance that is inferior, and even poisoning. This is a global concern because of how food crime is evolving. […]

Swift Pod. XOIO Autonomous overnight travel Swift Pod is a futuristic concept, based on traveling long distances at a reasonable speed while asleep. The Swift Pod derives its name from the bird, due to its ability to fly while asleep. We’ve always been captivated by the allure of night trains and the nostalgic charm of waking up […]

Daniel Kahneman’s passing at 90 years old has left a major gap in the field of behavioural science and in the wider intellectual community. His scientific contributions, many made in collaboration with cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky, transformed the disciplines of psychology and economics. They also had outsize effects on philosophy, political science and many other […]