Jane Khomi/Moment RF/Getty Images Rosewater: Opening Day 2066 Now I’m at the Integrity Bank job for forty minutes before the anxieties kick in. It’s how I usually start my day. This time it’s because of a wedding and a final...
I’m about to lie to you. I’m going to tell you all the lofty reasons why I wrote my book Rosewater, like interrogating the usual setting of alien invasions in the Global North, and the loss of the colonial metaphor...
The ice was found in the Chamaeleon I Cloud, a star-forming regionNASA, ESA, K. Luhman and T. Esplin (Pennsylvania State Uni), et al./ESO/Gladys Kober/Catholic Uni of America Fluffy ice that could help create the molecular building blocks for life has...
If the universe is a game, then who’s playing it?Bruce Rolff/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas...
A player’s view of the video game Gran Turismo 7Sony Interactive Entertainment An artificial intelligence can beat the best human players at the racing video game Gran Turismo 7 using only the images and information that players can see. In...
A hoard of Roman gold coins found below the floor of a Roman house in Corbridge, UKWorld History Archive/Alamy After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of...
A car kitted out with technology for gathering data on the condition of buildingsMadeleine Cuff UK city-dwellers may have spotted a strangely shaped car cruising around their neighbourhood earlier this year. It looks just like a Google Street View vehicle,...
Artist’s depiction of the Ariane 6 rocketESA-D. Ducros What is Ariane 6? Ariane 6 is the latest model in the Ariane line of rockets – Europe’s own satellite launchers. The project dates back to a proposal from 1973 and the...
Tests on lab-grown “mini-brains” show a one-off gene therapy treatment can prevent the formation of the tau tangles associated with several neurodegenerative conditions Source link...
Nobody doubts that Albert Einstein had a brilliant mind. But the Nobel prizewinner, famous for his theories of special and general relativity, wasn’t blessed with a big brain. “It was smaller than average,” says Jeremy DeSilva at Dartmouth College in...
