Stargazers will have the chance to spot what could be the most impressive comet of the year for the next couple of weeks. Comet A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, has come to be known as the “comet of the century” by excited astronomers, such is the anticipation about how bright and visible it might be. People in the southern hemisphere ...
Breakdancers have been warned repetitive headspins may cause them to develop a “cone-head”. It follows the case of a man in his 30s in Denmark who developed a “breakdance bulge” after “extensive” breakdancing for almost two decades. His training regime consisted of around five sessions each week, each lasting around 1.5 hours, including two to seven minutes where pressure was ...
“I don’t think the committee had our phone numbers,” said Sir Demis Hassabis. He found out he’d won the Nobel Prize for chemistry – but the Swedish awards committee had a hard job letting him know. They ended up phoning Sir Demis’s wife on Microsoft Teams, who was working and repeatedly ignored them. “Eventually about the third or fourth call, ...
Briton Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, jointly with two other scientists. The trio of Sir Demis, as well as Americans Professor David Baker and Dr John Jumper, were honoured on Wednesday for their work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones. The research has helped advances across a range of areas ...
Wimbledon is to replace all of its line judges with Live Electronic Line Calling from 2025, the tournament’s organisers have said. In a major break from tradition, the championships will follow the lead of the other Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open and US Open, as well as a number of other tour events. Hawk-Eye technology has been used on ...
The 2024 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to two scientists who laid “the foundation” for artificial intelligence – although one of them recently warned the technology could be the end of humanity. John Hopfield from Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto spent decades developing our knowledge of artificial neural networks, which are the basis ...
A young bear born to parents rescued from a Spanish circus will today undergo pioneering brain surgery. Boki, a two-year-old European brown bear, has been suffering seizures and vision problems for the last five months. MRI scans show he has hydrocephalus, a build up of fluid inside his skull that is putting pressure on his brain. It’s a condition that ...
Thirteen US states and Washington DC are suing TikTok over claims it is harming children’s mental health and not doing enough to protect them. The lawsuits allege the video-sharing app is designed to be addictive and keep teenagers glued to the screen. TikTok said the claims were “inaccurate and misleading” and pointed to features such as default screen time and ...
The Draconid meteor shower will peak tonight, meaning stargazers have the best chance of seeing some of its shooting stars if the skies are clear. If the weather is cloudy, however, it should also be visible for the next two evenings. But with meteor showers appearing in the night sky all year long, how can you tell your Draconids from ...
The unused cables and broken tech items you have tucked away at home could help steer the UK away from a copper crisis, according to new research. The research by campaign group Recycle Your Electricals (RYE) suggests the UK has 1.3 billion unused or binned electricals, including 627 million cables, which could hold the answer to the nation’s fast-approaching gap ...