Category: Technology

[ad_1] China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, because one of its windows has been struck by space debris. Astronauts noticed an […]

[ad_1] New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in southern Africa between 10,200 and a few hundred years ago. The study provides more evidence that hunter-gatherers from southern Africa […]

[ad_1] Pawel Papis/Shutterstock Humans have moved plants and animals well beyond their native ranges, across barriers that normally prevent dispersal. As a result, people have increased the rates of hybridisation between populations that were once isolated for thousands, or even millions, of years. Animal hybrids are a controversial issue among scientists, as they often suffer […]

[ad_1] Appsky Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research “moonshot” aiming to build a data centre in space. The tech giant plans to use a constellation of solar-powered satellites which would run on its own TPU chips and transmit data to one another via lasers. Google’s TPU chips (tensor processing units), which are specially designed […]

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has shaken up the global tech landscape with the release of two new open-source AI models that it claims rival or surpass leading U.S. systems such as OpenAI’s GPT‑5 and Google’s Gemini‑3 Pro VentureBeat Mathrubhumi English. Breakthrough Models The company introduced DeepSeek‑V3.2 and DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Speciale, designed to excel in complex reasoning, […]

[ad_1] UK scientists have played a key role in solving a neutrino mystery that has challenged researchers for decades. Scientists, including researchers from several UK universities, working on the MicroBooNE experiment have found no evidence of a long-suspected fourth type of neutrino, known as the ‘sterile neutrino’. The experiment was carried out at the US […]

[ad_1] The question of when people first arrived in the land mass that now comprises much of Australasia has long been a source of scientific debate. Many Aboriginal people believe they have lived on the land since time immemorial. But until the advent of radiocarbon dating techniques, many western scholars thought they had arrived not […]

[ad_1] South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. Over the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at Nelson Mandela University has studied some of these ancient species by examining the […]

[ad_1] In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning movie – later developed into a novel by Isaac Asimov – seemed like pure fantasy at the […]

[ad_1] Donald Trump’s new “Genesis Mission” initiative promises to use artificial intelligence to reinvent how science is done, in a bid to move the dial on the hardest challenges in areas like robotics, biotech and nuclear fusion. It imagines a system in which AI designs experiments, executes them, learns from the results and continually proposes […]