One of the largest searches for alien life started 30 years ago. Its legacy lives on today
In February 1995, a small research organisation known as the SETI Institute launched what was…
Planes have high-tech systems to stop midair crashes. So what went wrong in Washington?
On Wednesday night US time, a passenger jet and US Army helicopter collided at a…
More internet users turn to online learning in 2024 – News articles
In 2024, 33% of EU internet users reported that they had done an online course…
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale…
What lawmakers can learn from South Korea’s AI hate-speech disaster
As artificial intelligence technologies develop at accelerated rates, the methods of governing companies and platforms…
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a…
The weird psychology of airports
Many of us have witnessed unusual and even anti-social behaviour at an airport or on…
Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus
State-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have captured the…
We studied more than 500 giraffe skulls from all over Africa – and confirmed there are 4 distinct species
Giraffes are among the world’s most recognisable animals. With their elongated necks and long legs,…
‘Digital doppelgangers’ are helping scientists tackle everyday problems – and showing what makes us human
As rising seas lap at its shore, Tuvalu faces an existential threat. In an effort…