Category: Technology

With unlimited information at our fingertips and dozens of platforms on which to share our opinions, it can sometimes feel like we’re supposed to be experts in everything. It can be exhausting. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to a psychologist whose research and experiences of intellectual humility have taught him […]

Varda Space Industries Watch the Varda’s Space Capsule wild atmospheric re-entry. Inside space capsule W-1, a camera recorded the entire journey, providing a unique perspective. Varda Space Industries’ spaceship, W-1, safely touched down at the Utah Test and Training Range on February 21, 2024. This event is historic as it’s the first time a private company has landed a […]

The role of an ethics committee is to give advice on what should be done in often contentious situations. They are used in medicine, research, business, law and a variety of other areas. The word “ethics” relates to the moral principles governing human behaviour. The task for ethics committees can be quite tricky given the […]

Space Perspective Excelsior Spaceflight Capsule is getting closer to offering space travel to everyone. The massive Excelsior Spaceflight Capsule, standing at 16 feet tall, is designed for trips to the edge of space. With room for up to eight passengers and a pilot, it features a cozy, pressurized cabin. During the six-hour journey, travelers can […]

Although a few months ago Samsung closed a big deal with LG to supply it with QLED screens, for Samsung, their main business was and continues to be their QLED TVs. Accordingly, we received for review the QN900C – their flagship TV for the Neo QLED series, which has 8K resolution. The TV we received […]

Tanzania’s Serengeti ecosystem is like a time machine. As one of the world’s last remaining fully intact grazing ecosystems it provides a glimpse of what others in Australia, Eurasia and the Americas might have looked like when communities of large grazing mammals roamed freely across these continents. During the Late Pleistocene, which spanned from 129,000 […]

Experience Formula 1 with the world’s fastest camera drone, like you’ve never seen it before. Watch as the @dutchdronegods capture Max Verstappen’s sleek new @redbullracing RB20 F1 car in action, seamlessly gliding around Silverstone’s Grand Prix Circuit. This is the world’s first uninterrupted FPV one-shot, achieved by a skillfully piloted custom drone, purpose-built to match […]

Toyota Research Institute Punyo- Toyota’s new soft robot for whole-body manipulation research. Toyota’s TRI is creating robots that enhance human abilities instead of replacing them. Their latest project, Punyo, exemplifies this goal. The Punyo team concentrates on handling large objects with the arms and chest, supplementing TRI’s existing work on precise hand and gripper manipulation. […]

Otter populations crashed in Britain around the 1960s from the lethal effects of chemical pollution in rivers and lakes – or so we thought. Our research has looked more closely at what happened to otters in Britain over the last 800 years and has revealed a more complex picture. Since Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) are […]