Category: Technology

Stephen A. Waycott/Shutterstock Did you get through your beach picnics unscathed this summer? Or did you return from a swim only to find a “seagull” (most likely a herring gull if in the UK) rifling through your bags in search of food? If the latter, shouting at it should help to stop the gull in […]

Summary: OpenAI is contesting a U.S. federal court ruling that requires it to disclose 20 million ChatGPT user conversations in a copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other media outlets. The company argues the order poses a serious risk to user privacy and sets a dangerous precedent for AI transparency and data […]

Summary: Google has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against a China-based cybercriminal group accused of running the “Lighthouse” phishing-as-a-service platform. The kit enabled large-scale smishing attacks worldwide, stealing financial data from millions of victims and generating billions in illicit profits. ⚖️ Legal Action The lawsuit […]

Carsten Welsch A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are currently produced is through a facility called a synchrotron light source. These are used to study materials, drug […]

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of Florida); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who […]

More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the Moon, China is working steadily towards landing its astronauts on the lunar surface. On October 30, 2025, a spokesman for China’s crewed space programme said the country was “on track” to launch its lunar mission by 2030. So how does China plan to […]

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives – or even your entire community? The first is a question people face when they donate organs. The second comes up when they participate in genetic research. This is because DNA from even […]

“China is going to win the AI race,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has told an AI summit in London. The Taiwanese-born boss of the chipmaker, the world’s most valuable public company, believes the Chinese are already just “nanoseconds” behind the Americans and well placed to overtake them. He pointed to China’s energy superiority and AI […]

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years of observing the sky. SALT is the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. It’s been steadily revealing new science knowledge, ranging from the discovery of planets outside our solar system to understanding the unusual physics around black holes. It’s also 20 years of doing science […]

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and colour to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth. In so doing he challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day and pre-empted the methods and discoveries of the 21st-century […]