[ad_1] In the escape pod, you have to fix the failing engineering systems Tin Can Studio Tin Can Tin Can Studio PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, Nintendo Switch VIDEO games keep getting bigger and bigger. I don’t mean the size of the industry – though with global revenues of more […]
[ad_1] A compound found in octopus ink has anti-cancer properties BIOSPHOTO/Alamy A compound found inside octopus ink has been created artificially in the lab and used to kill cancer cells. The development could eventually lead to new cancer treatments. Martín Samuel Hernández-Zazueta at the University of Sonora in Mexico and his colleagues had previously identified […]
[ad_1] Reflective film installed on the roofs of two buildings in Freetown, Sierra Leone MEER Tens of thousands of people in Freetown, Sierra Leone, live in informal settlements dense with metal and concrete buildings that trap heat and make heatwaves more dangerous. An experiment has shown that covering such buildings with a cheap mirrored […]
[ad_1] A borehole more than 10,000 meters deep is being drilled in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo China’s largest oil producer has started drilling a hole expected to reach a depth of more than 10,000 metres in the country’s remote Taklamakan Desert. The borehole would be among the deepest […]
[ad_1] A live video feed will be broadcast from Mars for the first time beginning at 1600 UTC today, using a once-obsolete camera aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter. ESA’s feed, embedded above, will last for an hour. However, because of the vast distance between Earth and Mars, the images will take 17 […]
[ad_1] A computer chip made of glass and silicone, with channels that hold liquids Hui Lab at UC Irvine A pneumatic computer made of glass and silicone uses pressure instead of electricity to encode data. It can enable a chip-sized device to perform procedures that are usually done by technicians in labs. Lab-on-a-chip devices have […]
[ad_1] Smoke from a wildfire rises over houses in Bedford, Canada REUTERS/Eric Martyn Wildfires in Canada emitted record amounts of carbon in May, showing how the risk of blazes is increasing even before the summer fire season begins. Emissions for the month reached 54.8 million tonnes, more than double the carbon emitted by wildfires in […]
[ad_1] Some AI stories are so bad they would make a robot facepalm Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock News of an AI-controlled drone “killing” its supervisor jetted around the world this week. In a story that could be ripped from a sci-fi thriller, the hyper-motivated AI had been trained to destroy surface-to-air missiles only with approval from […]
[ad_1] MeerKAT image of the galactic centre with vertical and horizontal filaments Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University The centre of our galaxy is full of hundreds of strange threads of hot gas, which may have formed due to an outburst from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s resident supermassive black hole. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh at Northwestern University in Illinois […]
[ad_1] A live video feed will be broadcast from Mars for the first time beginning at 1600 UTC today, using a once-obsolete camera aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter. ESA’s feed, embedded above, will last for an hour. However, because of the vast distance between Earth and Mars, the images will take 17 […]