Category: Technology

Nasa recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among space scientists, who view the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission as a cornerstone of plans to explore the Solar […]

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South Africa’s Karoo region is a vast semi-arid area that stretches across four of the country’s provinces. It is sparsely populated and renowned for its wide open spaces. In the heart of this landscape, near the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory operates a technological marvel that has transformed […]

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has announced the first innovative start-ups to join two new business support programmes aimed at helping digital and quantum technology start-ups succeed in global markets. Seven pioneering UK start-ups have been selected to join the Digital Incubation Centre (Digital BIC) and the Quantum Business Incubation Centre (QuBIC), designed […]

The more gender equal a society is, the more similar men and women will be, adopting more similar interests, personality traits and behavioural patterns. Or so many people seem to believe. Statements like this might sound like truisms, but science shows reality may be more complicated. Several studies have found that some psychological sex differences, […]

The universities of Cranfield, Hull, King’s College London and Nottingham have all received funding from round seven of Research England’s flagship UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) to create the centres. Funding for the four new centres has now brought the total investment figure for the highly regarded scheme to £1 billion since its inception. […]

Modern physics suggests time may be an illusion. Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of space and time simultaneously – with no special “now”. What’s the future to one observer, is the past to another. That means time doesn’t flow from past to future, […]

DESI is a wide-reaching international collaboration led by the US Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley Lab. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supports the UK component of the study, which includes Durham University, University of Portsmouth and UCL. Map of the Universe DESI has mapped millions of galaxies and quasars with unprecedented detail. Its […]

A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a man’s home in Florida. Nasa later confirmed that the object had come from unwanted hardware released from the international space station. The 700g, 10cm-long piece of hardware was expected to burn up, Nasa said. Even a relatively small piece of junk […]