Over a dozen Australian suncreams pulled over safety concerns
Sydney, Australia - The makers of over a dozen suncreams have halted sales in Australia after a consumer advocacy group...
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Norway experiments with electric plane in real-life test
Oslo, Norway -- An electric plane took to the skies between the Norwegian airports Stavanger and Bergen on Thursday, simulating...
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Humanoid robots stride into the future with world’s first half-marathon
At the crack of the starter's gun, and as a Chinese pop song "I Believe" blared out from loudspeakers on...
- The 21-kilometre (13-mile) event held in the Chinese capital's E-Town is billed as a groundbreaking effort to test the limits of bipedal robots in real-world conditions
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Research on multiple sclerosis wins ‘Oscars of science’
Stephen Hauser and Alberto Ascherio were recognized for their decades researching the debilitating neurodegenerative disease, which affects nearly three million...
- Scientists knew the disease, which damages the central nervous system and leads to paralyzing cognitive and motor problems, was caused by the immune system turning on the body.
- But they thought the white blood cells known as T cells were the lone culprit. Hauser questioned that.
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‘I don’t have a voice in my head’: Life with no inner monologue
Paris, France - Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some...
- The idea of not being able to have inner monologue is so new that a clinical name, anendophasia, was only proposed for it in a paper last year
- The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think
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World’s tiniest pacemaker is smaller than grain of rice
Paris, France -- Scientists said Wednesday they have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker, a temporary heartbeat regulator smaller than a...
- While still years away from being tested in humans, the wireless pacemaker was hailed as a "transformative breakthrough" that could spur advances in other areas of medicine.
- Millions of people across the world have permanent pacemakers, which stimulate hearts with electrical pulses to ensure they beat normally.
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First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes seconds after blast-off
Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched...
- Isar Aerospace, which had said it did not expect to reach orbit with the launch, said the two-stage rocket fell into the sea, adding that "the launch pad seems to be intact".
- The 28-metre (92-foot) tall, two-meter diameter rocket has a one-ton carrying capacity, but was unloaded for the test flight.
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‘Dark universe detective’ telescope releases first data
Paris, France - Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark...
- The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky, encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies
- The huge amount of data - which was accompanied by 27 scientific papers - still only covers less then 0.5 percent of the sky
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Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO2 for first time
The gas giants are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how...
- The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old -- just a baby compared to our solar system's 4.6 billion years.
- A US-led team of researchers used Webb to directly detect carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of all four of the system's known planets, according to the study.
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Japan puts world’s most accurate clock on sale for $3.3 million
The "Aether clock OC 020" is so precise that it would take 10 billion years for it to deviate by...
- Shimadzu is aiming to sell 10 of its clocks over the next three years and hopes its customers will use them to advance scientific research.
- Known as a "strontium optical lattice clock", it is 100 times more accurate than caesium atomic clocks, the current standard for defining seconds.
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Two lunar landings in a week for NASA’s private Moon fleet
Washington, United States -- More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to...
- First up is Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, nicknamed "Ghost Riders in the Sky."
- Blue Ghost's arrival will be followed on March 6 by Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, featuring its lander, Athena.
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UAE’s satellite, developed by Emirati engineers, launched from California to aid disaster relief and earth observation
With cutting-edge features like high-resolution imaging and electric jet propulsion, MBZ-SAT will enhance environmental surveillance, disaster management, and infrastructure monitoring,...
- Named in honour of the President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the satellite was announced in 2020 by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
- MBZ-SAT marks a significant milestone in the UAE's satellite development journey, having been developed entirely by Emirati engineers at MBRSC
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Possible interstellar object zooming through Solar System: ESA
Excited astronomers are still refining their calculations, but the object appears to be zooming at a speed up to 60...
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‘Writing is thinking’: do students who use ChatGPT learn less?
Paris, France -- When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives they had witnessed discrimination,...
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James Webb Telescope captures first direct image of exoplanet TWA 7b
The telescope, which can see farther into the universe than anything before it, has turbocharged the search for planets beyond...
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More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic
For water, both flat and sparkling, the amount of microplastic was relatively low in all cases, ranging from 4.5 particles...
- Researchers detected the tiny, mostly invisible pieces of plastic throughout the world, from in the air we breathe to the food we eat, as well as riddled throughout human bodies.
- There is still no direct evidence that this preponderance of plastic is harmful to human health, but a burgeoning field of research is aiming to measure its spread.
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IBM claims ‘real world’ edge in quantum computing race
San Francisco, United States -- Technology veteran IBM on Tuesday laid out a plan to have a "practical" quantum computer...
- Current quantum computers are still experimental and face significant challenges, including high error rates.
- Companies like IBM, Google, and others are working to build more stable and scalable quantum systems.
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How social media can ‘trigger’ eating disorders in young people
Paris, France -- Social media can push vulnerable young people towards developing eating disorders by glorifying thinness and promoting fake,...
- Young women and girls are much more likely to suffer from illnesses such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, though rates among men have been increasing.
- Research has shown the percentage of people worldwide who have had some kind of eating disorder during their lives rose from 3.5 percent in 2000 to 7.8 percent in 2018.