Could simple blood tests identify cancer earlier?
Approximately four years ago, John Gormly, now 77, underwent what he anticipated would be a routine blood test. The results, however, delivered profoundly life-changing news. An initial medical test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, a diagnosis later definitively...
Spotify working on AI music tools with major record labels
Spotify, the world's biggest music streaming service, has announced it is working with major labels on using artificial intelligence (AI) in a "responsible" way. The firm said it wanted to make AI tools which "put artists and songwriters first" and respect their...
OpenAI stops ‘disrespectful’ Martin Luther King Jr deepfakes
OpenAI has stopped its artificial intelligence (AI) app Sora creating deepfake videos portraying Dr Martin Luther King Jr, following a request from his estate. The company acknowledged the video generator had created "disrespectful" content about the civil rights...
Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experiment, jettison old HDTV camera during spacewalk outside ISS
Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor materials experiment, as well as retrieve and jettison a no-longer-needed camera from the exterior of the orbiting complex. Expedition 73...
Rule-breaking black hole destroys star in puzzling way: ‘This is truly extraordinary’
The death of a star at the hands of a massive black hole in a galaxy 650 million light-years away has surprised astronomers, for not only taking place outside the center of the galaxy, where massive black holes usually lurk, but also for launching two high-energy...
Could the world’s 1st private space telescope help find stars with habitable exoplanets?
The world's first commercial deep space astronomy telescope is set to search for stars that could host habitable exoplanets in their orbits. The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries...
The Orionid meteor shower peaks under dark, moonless skies next week. Here’s how to see it
If you happen to glimpse a "shooting star" before dawn during the next several days, there's a good chance that what you saw was a fragment left behind in space by the famous Halley's Comet. For it is during the third week of October that a meteor display spawned by...
How to see Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) shine in the October sky
A bright new solar system comet could put on a show in the October night sky as it zooms past Earth. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was discovered on Sept. 10 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly. It has brightened significantly since then, raising hopes that it...
Record-breaking ‘dark object’ found hiding within a warped ‘Einstein ring’ 10 billion light-years away
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly small "dark object" lurking within a distant ring of warped light. The record-breaking find could help shed light on the mysterious identity of dark matter, which would have major implications for the field of cosmology. The...
Astronomers close in on signal from Epoch of Reionization
Long before starlight filled the cosmos for the first time, the young universe may have been simmering, according to a new study. The findings suggest that about 800 million years after the Big Bang, energy from newborn black holes and the fading embers of the first...