Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a global campaign to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization 80 years ago, and to work toward a healthy, sustainable, food-secure future. More than 670 million people in the world are facing hunger. Millions of others...
That's two in a row for Starship. SpaceX's Starship , the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, aced a suborbital test flight today (Oct. 13), following up on a similar success in late August. Today's mission, which lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in...
A train of solar storms is barreling toward Earth, with four coronal mass ejections (CMEs) expected to hit over the next few days. Any potential impact could trigger impressive auroras in northern skies and possibly even at mid-latitudes. Multiple CMEs launched from...
Citizen scientists have found several new "odd radio circles
Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for Synspective today (Oct. 14), the seventh spacecraft it has lofted for the Japanese Earth-observation company to date. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today at 12:33 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT; 5:33a.m....
If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world, which sits about 578 light-years from the solar system, breaks almost every known rule for how planets should behave. First off, it orbits a very young star...
With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have spotted the most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) yet. The discovery could give astronomers a better understanding of how these unusual objects — and the galaxies they encircle — form. "ORCs are among the most...
As costs for diagnostic and sequencing technologies have plummeted in recent years, researchers have collected an unprecedented amount of data around disease and biology. Unfortunately, scientists hoping to go from data to new cures often require help from someone...
The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an appendicular skeleton, which includes the shoulders, hips, arms and...
One of London's leading universities has set out its vision for a new academic building in west London specialising in artificial intelligence. Imperial College has started a consultation on plans for the 12-storey facility, which would include a range of research and...
"I felt quite vindicated... if I hadn't persisted, if I hadn't put all of my symptoms into AI I would hate to think where I would have been left by healthcare professionals." It started with ringing in his ears but over a number of years Oliver Moazzezi also...
