Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander Athena set to blast off to the moon
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a private lunar lander, a lunar…
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AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice
You can blank out certain types of background noise and focus on just one conversation using prototype noise-cancelling headphones
Everything we know about the EG.5 covid-19 variant and its symptoms
EG.5, the latest omicron covid-19 subvariant that is being dubbed "Eris", may spread more easily than past versions of the…
Nobel prize for chemistry goes to trio behind quantum dots work
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry has gone to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for inventing quantum dots,…
We’ve seen a star devouring a planet for the first time
In a preview of what’s to come for Earth in about 5 billion years, astronomers have spotted a sun-like star…
Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brain
Scientists have found a way to boost the brain's system to clear waste from the organ in mice, which could…
China’s CO2 emissions have started falling – is this finally the peak?
For the first time ever, China’s carbon dioxide emissions have declined even as its power demand has increased, a possible…
Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world
A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere…
Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have fallen again
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its…
AI beats human experts at distinguishing American whiskey from Scotch
Using descriptions of flavours or chemical data, artificial intelligence can tell apart whiskies from different countries and identify their constitue