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Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN’s director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for an extended upgrade. The shutdown starts in June to make way for the high-luminosity LHC — a major overhaul involving powerful new...
Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors say
Leading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor schoolchildren for high blood pressure amid concerns that rising rates in adolescents will increase cases of organ damage, strokes and heart attacks.
Rates of high blood pressure have nearly doubled...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of “infinite synthetic content.” In a slideshow posted to Instagram, Mosseri wrote that for most of his life he could safely assume photographs or videos were...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: A long stretch of curb in San Francisco’s Mission District might contain a whole menagerie of parked vehicles: hatchbacks, SUVs, dusty pick-ups, chic Teslas. And recently, Waymo robotaxis. That’s what Kyle Grochmal saw walking through the northeast Mission District on Monday afternoon. Cutting down York Street, he glimpsed a...
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Whether you want to run a marathon or learn to play the guitar, here’s how to set yourself up for success.
Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you.
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.
Our reviewer optimized his morning cup of coffee with creamer substitutes that promise health benefits and mental clarity.
Reduce your chances of catching these respiratory illnesses, and make sure you don’t spread it to others.
Some tech leaders are concerned that the artificial intelligence race will exhaust available land and energy. The solution might lie in orbit.
A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. “The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge. “This sort of...
Knock out these simple chores on this day of fresh starts to keep you and your devices humming smoothly.
South Africans are increasingly opting for digital wallet and virtual card payments over swiping or tapping physical bank cards.
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The online booking platform aims to streamline scheduling for everything from virtual appointments to workshops.
Industry research consistently shows that sponsored articles are viewed as the most credible form of online advertising in South Africa.
NASA is closing its largest research library at the Goddard Space Flight Center amid budget cuts and campus consolidation, putting tens of thousands of largely non-digitized historical and scientific documents at risk of being warehoused or discarded. The New York Times reports: Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some...
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