Category: Technology

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world’s third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco river. The cause was Singapore-flagged container ship, the Dali, which veered off course, colliding with […]

Scientists have developed the world’s fastest camera, which can shoot at an astonishing 156.3 trillion frames per second (fps). Jinyang Liang, a Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), and his team have developed a new ultrafast camera system that can capture up to 156.3 trillion frames per second with astonishing precision, […]

Catastrophic collapses of major bridges are thankfully rare. Notable examples in the last couple of decades include the failure of the I35-W in Minneapolis in August 2007, and the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa 11 years later. When such events do occur, public attention is understandably focused on the nature of the collapse, […]

Blended Wing demonstrator.  JetZero JetZero’s 1:8 scale Blended Wing demonstrator just cleared for test flights over Edwards Air Force Base in California. JetZero, a California-based aerospace company, just got the green light from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its Pathfinder demonstrator. The new design, which prioritizes aerodynamics and makes everything a lifting surface, […]

Three prominent women technologists – Galit Sasson, Chief Operational Engineer at Mekorot’s Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant, Dr. Rotem Shemesh, Head of R&D and Customer Service at Carmel Olefins (part of Bazan Group), and Inna Braverman, Co-Founder & CEO, Eco Wave Power Ltd. – participated in a panel discussion at the Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit […]

If you’ve seen portraits painted by Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, you might not be surprised to hear that both men may have suffered from a disorder that affects how faces are perceived. Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) is a condition where faces appear distorted, and sometimes even demonic. In most cases, these distortions alter how images of […]

Invisibility Shield 2.0 The new lightweight portable Invisibility Shield 2.0 offers next-level cloaking and packs down small. The new Invisibility Shield 2.0 has a front face that’s 17% larger than before, and the Megashield is three times bigger, towering at 6ft (1.8m) tall. It’s spacious enough to conceal multiple people standing side by side. Invisibility […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from them – can have many uses in nature conservation, such as remote monitoring (like the use of camera traps to study animals or plants) or data analysis. Some of these are controversial because AI can be trained to be biased, […]

EHT Collaboration A stunning new image of the Milky Way‘s black hole revealed strong magnetic fields spiraling at its edge. A new snapshot from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has unveiled, previously unseen, magnetic fields swirling out from the border of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A (Sgr A). For the first time, the heart […]