Supersonic jets are making a comeback – but despite the hype, don’t expect to book yet
Late last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with…
AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code
What do you think there are more of: professional computer programmers or computer users who…
Property and sovereignty in space − as countries and companies take to the stars, they could run into disputes
Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial…
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…
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…