THURSDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2025, 02:31
Blue Origin says it is aiming for another attempt as soon as Wednesday as competition with Musk’s SpaceX intensifies
Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was forced on Sunday to postpone the anticipated launch of its New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Rain and a ground system issue caused delays that were followed by...
While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.
Tearing up, sweating and other bodily functions are all signs that the body is trying to expel spicy foods as quickly as possible. But there is a simple reason why some people enjoy those sensations
The first thing to understand about eating spicy food is that it really isn’t a matter of taste. Capsaicin, the active chemical in capsicum plants that are a key ingredient in anything you’d...
Who poisoned who?
Today’s puzzle is credited to Michael Rabin, the legendary computer scientist, who in the late 1980s posted it to an electronic bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University.
It has recently been brought to light by a puzzle enthusiast who thinks it deserves to be better known. I agree – it’s an all time classic.
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A Dundee professor carried out the first remote thrombectomy on a human cadaver.
One of the world’s most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.
Wrap up warm, grab a deck chair and take your place to spot about 10-15 bright meteors an hour
It is time again for one of the more reliable meteor showers of the year: the Leonids. Active between early November and early December, the shower experiences a sharp peak this week, expected on the night of 16–17 November.
The meteors take their name from the constellation Leo, the lion, and appear...
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded the inner speech of paralysis patients. In October, an eye restored sight to patients who had lost their vision.
It would...
Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance
James Watson, who has died aged 97, had an extraordinary gift for science, combined with ruthless ambition and an arrogant disregard for most of his peers. These combined qualities earned him a key role in one of the 20th century’s most profound scientific...
This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.
Parenthood can seem an impossible dream for many, and online sperm donor groups offer a solution, but they can be a murky world
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric boast for a Facebook profile page, but then this is no mundane corner of the internet. The group where Rod and other men advertise themselves is a community...
Robert Beattie, 82, has found specimens of a 151m-year-old midge that challenge what we know about how the insects evolved
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As a boy, holidaying with his family in the New South Wales coastal town of Gerringong, Robert Beattie found a shell in a rock. It turned out to be hundreds of millions of years old –...
Endocrinologists warn taking testosterone unnecessarily can suppress the body’s natural hormone production
Social media misinformation is driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone they don’t need, adding pressure to already stretched waiting lists, doctors have said.
Testosterone therapy is a prescription-only treatment recommended under national guidelines for men with a clinically...
Last weekend’s Cambridgeshire train attack brought up a question that we often ask ourselves. But the answer isn’t simple
Emma Kavanagh is a psychologist who has worked for the police and the military
The devastating attack on train passengers in Cambridgeshire last weekend was shocking. There has been talk of heroes who risked their lives to help others, and of those who hid to save their...
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help
It was early morning on 1 January last year when Colin McGarva dived into a flooding river in Worcester to rescue an unconscious woman. McGarva said he didn’t think twice about the risk to himself, or the devastating loss his newborn son would suffer had he too been swept away by...
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy but later years marred by racist remarks
James D Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab. He was 97.
The breakthrough – made when the brash, Chicago-born...
More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
A leading German automotive supplier said it was again allowed to ship semiconductors that Beijing had barred for export.
While he has a penchant for cars and jets, the world’s richest person reportedly lives a relatively modest life.
A.I. has taken newsrooms by storm, setting off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls.
The tech billionaire believes Optimus could play a big role in the lives of people around the world.