Ancient pig-like animal shows beginnings of mammalian brain evolution
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in…
AI in Earth observation: a force for good
AI in Earth observation: The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the PhiFireAI project of the Italian Thales Alenia Space team, together with ‘Irma’ of the French team, to test…
BSides Pristina 2024: a cyber conference in the heart of Kosovo
The bustling city of Pristina recently hosted the highly anticipated BSides Pristina 2024 for the third time, a premier event in the field of cybersecurity. This year’s conference, held in…
Earliest-known galaxy, spotted by Webb telescope, is a beacon to cosmic dawn
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it formed during the universe’s infancy…
Amazon in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in cloud plan
By Elvira Pollina, Valentina Za and Supantha Mukherjee MILAN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Amazon‘s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its…
Comet fragment lights up sky over Spain and Portugal ‘like a movie’
By Catarina Demony and Ana Cantero LISBON (Reuters) – A bright comet fragment lit up the skies over parts of Spain and Portugal late on Saturday, according to the European…
Bezos’ Blue Origin launches first crew to edge of space since 2022 grounding
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew – including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s – from West Texas…
Tech helps the elderly who are living in big cities
Tech elderly: Owing to the development of science and technology, the world has experienced many transitions. One of the biggest changes is population ageing, associated with longer life expectancy. The United Nations’ 2023 report predicts that…
Perseverance mission raises hopes for life detection on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a significant discovery on Mars: It indicates that the planet’s Jezero crater was once filled with water. This finding raises the exciting possibility that the rover…
Resource optimization also invades space research
Resource optimization: NASA wants to seek creative proposals to bring Perseverance rover soil samples to Earth at a significantly lower price. The US Space Agency has now announced this, responding…