Israel’s first sea wave energy power plant will launch in Jaffa Port next Thursday to help the country address climate change and transition to renewable energy. The project was jointly developed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, the municipal development company ‘Atarim,’ Eco Wave Power, and EDF Renewables Israel. This will be a pilot station for […]
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KPixMining / Shutterstock Our growing reliance on technology at home and in the workplace has raised the profile of e-waste. This consists of discarded electrical devices including laptops, smartphones, televisions, computer servers, washing machines, medical equipment, games consoles and much more. The amount of e-waste produced this decade could reach as much as 5 million […]
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In response to increasing cyber threats targeting critical infrastructure, the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has launched the Group Cyberspace Collaboration Centre (GCCC) in Cumbria. This new facility, housed at Herdus House, aims to bolster cybersecurity across the nuclear sector by promoting collaboration among nuclear operators and their supply chains. The GCCC is designed to […]
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Do you prefer Black Friday or Cyber Monday? The January sales or Amazon’s Prime Day? Or perhaps you like to hold out for a good old fashioned everything-must-go shop clearance. For whatever your shopping habits, there’s a good chance that you like the idea of bagging a bargain. The days and weeks before Black Friday […]
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) coordinates the UK’s interests in the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), working with the academic and industrial community and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The SKAO and STFC have now agreed to lay the foundation of the SKAO Africa programme. The programme is aimed at […]
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On November 27, 2024, Riyadh’s long-awaited metro system officially opened to the public, marking a transformative milestone for Saudi Arabia’s capital. The Riyadh Metro project is a major infrastructure development aimed at revolutionizing urban transport, easing traffic congestion, reducing air pollution, and enhancing the overall quality of life for the city’s residents. The initial phase […]
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Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result is a “singularity” – a point of infinite density or curvature. At a singularity, space, time and matter are crushed and stretched into nonexistence. The […]
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German dictator Adolf Hitler, after whom a species of blind beetle is named. Roger Viollet via Getty Images Taxonomy is the science of describing, classifying and naming organisms. It organises the vast diversity of life on Earth. Species are grouped based on shared characteristics, providing a system that allows scientists to understand and communicate about […]
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Data localization laws are becoming an increasingly common feature of national regulations, with governments around the world mandating that certain types of data must be stored on servers within their national borders. These laws, often framed as efforts to bolster privacy, security, and national sovereignty, have a profound impact on the cloud services ecosystem and […]
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This finger bone discovered in Siberia in 2008 led to the original Denisovan discovery. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA analysis, this was all that was required for scientists to be able to […]
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