Category: Technology

Each year, millions of birds fly into power lines, wind turbines and the other man-made structures that litter the open air space. These collisions frequently result in the death of birds and, if power systems go down, disrupt our lives and pose financial challenges for power companies. Numerous bird species, including macaws in Brazil, geese […]

When a Virgin Galactic commercial flight soared into space on 8 September 2023, there were two Virgin Galactic pilots, an instructor and three passengers on board – as well as two fossils of ancient prehuman relatives from South Africa. Timothy Nash, a businessman, carried a clavicle belonging to Australopithecus sediba and the thumb bone of […]

Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee members, an astrophysicist, quizzed me on why we needed to visit one of these objects. “Nasa has already been […]

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced on Monday that it had been awarded a $95 million contract to supply SkyStriker loitering munitions to an undisclosed European country. The contract is for several hundred SkyStriker units to be delivered over two years. Elbit Systems’ SkyStriker is a fully autonomous loitering munition that can locate, acquire, and engage […]

Where do we feel love? Scientists have mapped where in our bodies and how strongly we experience different kinds of love. Researchers at Aalto University have made a detailed map of where in the body different types of love are felt and how strongly they are experienced. The types of love form a gradient in […]

AI technology is developing rapidly. ChatGPT has become the fastest-growing online service in history. Google and Microsoft are integrating generative AI into their products. And world leaders are excitedly embracing AI as a tool for economic growth. As we move beyond ChatGPT and Bard, we’re likely to see AI chatbots become less generic and more […]

The UK has just rejoined the EU’s flagship research funding programmes, Horizon Europe and Copernicus. This is great news for science, the EU and the UK. The reasons are simple: science progresses through the individual efforts of scholars and through international cooperative research. The latter process involves different scientific institutions and organisations working towards common […]

Over the past three years, people from all walks of life have learned a great deal about different branches of science. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many of us to information about virology and vaccine production. Environmental disasters in every part of the world have brought concepts from meteorology and climatology to daily news reports. In […]

Former US President Bill Clinton is teaming up with Israeli billionaire Ziv Aviram to launch a climate fund with about $1 billion of start-up capital. Aviram, the co-founder of Mobileye, says the fund will focus on transformative technologies that address the challenges posed by global heating. Clinton will serve as chair of the advisory board […]

NASA announces Summer 2023 hottest on record since global records began in 1880. According to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York, the months of June, July, and August combined were 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit (0.23 degrees Celsius) warmer than any other summer, and 2.1 degrees F (1.2 C) warmer than […]