THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2025, 04:16
Conjunction just after midnight on 14 October will show brightest stars of Gemini shining brightly below moon
It is worth staying up for this pleasing view of the moon as it encounters Jupiter and the brightest stars of Gemini, the twins. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 00:30 BST in the very early morning of 14 October.
Gemini will have risen a little earlier and will now...
Two decades after the material was first produced, some UK firms have reaped its potential but others are struggling
After graphene was first produced at the University of Manchester in 2004, it was hailed as a wonder material, stronger than steel but lighter than paper. But two decades on, not every UK graphene company has made the most of that potential. Some show promise but others are...
Alcohol, suicide and injuries driving rises among teenagers and young adults despite overall rates falling, authors say
The world faces “an emerging crisis” of higher death rates among teenagers and young adults, according to a major study on the causes of death and disability worldwide.
The reasons vary from drug and alcohol use, and suicide in North America, to infectious diseases and...
The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do
Microplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon. If true, plastic isn’t just wrapped around our food or woven into our clothes: it is...
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10, which could make users vulnerable – here’s how to get Windows 11.
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.
Doctor and medical editor who inaugurated the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
In deciding what research to publish and how to appraise it, medical journals bear a heavy responsibility – as seen when it goes awry. In 1998, for instance, the Lancet published a paper falsely linking autism with the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine. They retracted the...
At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.
The regulator has given it “strategic market status”, opening the door to what it calls “proportionate interventions.”
David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter who has covered the cryptocurrency industry since 2022, has come to embrace learning on the fly.
The latest in the military shooter series is a pivotal release for publisher Electronic Arts.
The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago.
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.
Before the Spanish study, some scientists had been sceptical about the mammals attacking migratory birds
Bats are generally viewed as harmless, if spooky, creatures of the night. But scientists have revealed a more savage side, after witnessing a greater noctule bat – Europe’s largest bat species – hunting, killing and devouring a robin mid-flight.
The grisly recording reveals the bat as a...
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
Scientist who transformed the understanding of materials and redefined our knowledge of crystallography
When Peter Hirsch produced the first images of defects or faults in crystalline structures using transmission electron microscopy at Cambridge University’s Rutherford Laboratory, he transformed our understanding of materials science and redefined our knowledge of crystallography.
In...
Energy costs have become a central issue in the governor’s race between Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican, and Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat.
The US government said approximately 2.9 million cars could be impacted by the investigation.
Researchers say terrier and shepherd breeds display greater tendency for addictive-type behaviour
Whether it is a spaniel with an insatiable love for a ball or a flat-coat that cannot be without its squeaky bear, dogs can be very keen on their toys. Now researchers say some may even show signs of addiction.
While humans can take a host of activities to excess, from work to shopping, only...
Biologist who won the Nobel prize for discovering that adult cells can be reprogrammed
The exciting possibility that mature body cells, such as skin cells, might be transformed and used to repair damaged hearts or brains was long seen as science fiction. Once a cell had reached its specialised mature state, biologists thought, it could not adopt another identity. John Gurdon, who has died aged...
In this new book from the Melbourne photographer, Fruiting Bodies imagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor. Fungi are captured in various states of emergence as an uncanny stand-in for the female form – soft yet resilient, sensuous and enigmatic
• Fruiting Bodies by Ying Ang is out now in Australia ($A70, Perimeter Editions)
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