Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells. The findings, published today (Friday, 8...
Covid-19 – “It’s time to get rid of the scars,” says Mark Slack, a gynaecologist and co-founder of robotic surgery startup CMR Surgical. Cambridge-based CMR Surgical was founded in 2014 – Slack remembers how, when the...
When stores reopened after the first Covid-19 lockdown, retailers had a problem: counting exactly how many customers were inside to ensure shopping was safe LiDAR imaging can monitor shopper numbers, but also where they...
In this visualization, as the supersonic solar wind (yellow haze) flows around the Earth’s magnetic field (blue wavy lines), it forms a highly turbulent boundary layer called the ‘magnetosheath’ (yellow swirling area). A new...
Combating influenza in Seattle in 1918, workers wearing masks on their faces in a Red Cross room. Picture buy theatlantic.com An unthinkable 50 to 100 million people worldwide died from the 1918-1919 flu pandemic commonly known as...
This illustration shows the NANOGrav project observing cosmic objects called pulsars in an effort detect gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space. The project is seeking a low-level gravitational wave background signal...
Freemason secrets allegedly lurk behind everything from the planning of our nation’s capital to murder. Members of the enigmatic Masonic brotherhood include prominent politicians, Founding Fathers and titans of business. In modern times, Masons are known for donating millions...
Richard Browning hovers above a lake at the New Forest Water Park in Hampshire Inventors like Richard Browning have been trying to build jetpacks for a century. Now they’re here, what do we do...
NASA is targeting the final test in the Green Run series, the hot fire, for as early as January 17, 2021. The hot fire is the culmination of the Green Run test series, an eight-part...
Tianhe module in tests in 2019. Figure CMSA The operation of great power in space is accelerating even further. In a few months, the first and most important piece of China’s future space station...
Neutron star fusions are extremely interesting phenomena. The research team analyzes how the signs of a future collision differ from the observations of gravitational wave observatories. To date, only two very probable gravitational wave...
Dezeen.com was published | 22 September 2020 Photography is by Airbus. Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has revealed three concepts for zero-emission commercial aircrafts that would be powered by hydrogen and could be in service by 2035. Named ZEROe, the...
Image: Xuchen Wang / Aalto University The invention can obviate the complex magnetic structures required to circumvent reciprocity, which is of great benefit in ever-shrinking communication systems. When we look out the window and...
The FAST, or Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is, as the name implies, the world’s largest uniform radio telescope with a diameter of 500 meters and an area. Photo by Xu Liu / Xinhua...
