Category Science

Left: An image of the star WOH G64 taken with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile. Right: An artist’s impression of the star ESO Ohnaka et al., L. Calçada Astronomers have taken the first detailed picture of a star…

November 21, 2024 5 min read Genetic Genealogy Can Stop Violent Criminals and Free the Wrongly Convicted Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly convicted By David Gurney & James R.…

When humans and robots move together harmoniously through space, it builds mutual trust and improves teamwork, according to new research from the University of Bristol. The findings could help emergency services work more effectively with robot partners in the future.…

Quantum bits, or qubits, can be thought of as representing data on a sphere Google DeepMind Google DeepMind has developed an AI model that could improve the performance of quantum computers by correcting errors more effectively than any existing method,…

To describe the destructive effects of intense health anxiety to his young doctors in training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, psychiatrist Brian Fallon likes to quote 19th-century English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley: “The sorrow which has…

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and northeast England are significantly better at detecting fake versions of their accents compared to those from London and Essex, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. The findings suggest that shared cultural…

An artist’s impression of IBM’s Eagle quantum processing unit IBM IBM has made a significant advance on the road to larger and more powerful quantum computers by linking two such devices together and performing calculations beyond the capabilities of either…

Rachel Feltman: Picture two pregnant people walking into the same hospital to give birth. They have identical medical histories and experienced identical pregnancies. They’re seeing the same obstetrician. The only difference between them is that one is Black and the…

Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions could be converted into an alternative fuel using electricity from renewable sources.  Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that accounts…

An artist’s depiction of a system showing its host star, transiting planet and misaligned protoplanetary disc NASA Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) A world seen orbiting a 3-million-year-old star about 520 light years from Earth is one of the youngest known…