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The IndependentThere is something unexpected happening in the universe, Nasa’s most powerful ever telescope shows
For years, scientists have been troubled by an unusual feature of our universe. It appears to be expanding faster today than it did in the past
- The Independent
Scientists search breakthrough on how dogs of Chernobyl survived the world’s worst nuclear disaster
Hundreds of feral dogs roam the wasteland of the nuclear disaster descendants of pets that were abandoned amid the 1986 blast and survived a cull from Soviet soldiers
- Yahoo News UK
Nasa's Hubble telescope spots ‘weird' objects around black hole
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to gain a unique view of a vast black hole that is powering a glowing ‘quasar’.
- Prevention
A Genetic Time Machine Is Responsible for Chimps Evolving Like Humans
Scientists piece together genetic links between chimpanzee groups over thousands of years and discovered a surprisingly complex connection.
- The Guardian
EU should ban space mirrors and other solar geoengineering, scientists say
European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather
- AFP
Google announces quantum computing chip breakthrough
Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality.The breakthrough in error correction, published in leading science journal Nature, showed that adding more qubits to the system actually reduced errors rather than increasing them -- a fundamental requirement for building practical quantum computers.
- ACCESSWIRE
Young Girl Discovers a 3,500-year-old Egyptian Amulet
LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / December 9, 2024 / Dafna Filshteiner, age 12, was recently hiking below the ancient site of Tel Qana in Hod Hasharon, when suddenly, to her surprise, she discovered an unusual find a beetle-like stone used as an Egyptian ...
- Reuters
Europe's Maiaspace steps up effort to counter SpaceX with reusable rocket
In a discreet forest clearing on a plateau above the town of Vernon in Normandy, France, workers adjust a steel cylinder held under giant red claws - part of a reusable rocket that Europe hopes will slow the meteoric rise of Elon Musk's SpaceX. Maiaspace, a two-year-old subsidiary of Europe's largest rocket maker ArianeGroup, is entering a crucial period of testing for plans to launch Europe's first partially reusable launcher in 2026, targeting mainly small commercial satellites. The effort to make Europe more competitive comes a decade after major European governments decided to develop the Ariane 6 heavy launcher without making it reusable, with some critics calling it outdated even before its commercial debut next year.
- The Guardian
Country diary: The frosts are no match for this ancient survivor
Allendale, Northumberland: These strange, alien blobs are nostoc, and they are doing well in the valley at the moment, when little else is
- TechCrunch
Blue Origin says New Glenn on track to launch before end of 2024
Blue Origin says it's on track to launch its towering New Glenn vehicle before the year’s end, though the company is still awaiting regulatory approval to conduct a final key test of the massive rocket. If all goes to plan during the hot fire test, Blue Origin will move to integrate the fairing (the part of the rocket that holds the payload) as the final step before launch. As Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said in an interview at The New York Times’ Dealbook Summit earlier this month, New Glenn is key to his vision to lowering the cost of launch enough to move all polluting industry into orbit: “I know that sounds fantastical, so I beg the indulgence of this audience to bear with me for a moment,” he said.
- Fortune
Generative AI can’t shake its reliability problem. Some say ‘neurosymbolic AI’ is the answer
Neurosymbolic AI could be a best-of-both-worlds marriage between deep learning and “good old-fashioned AI.”
- The Telegraph
Revealed: the three stages of life when your brain ages
The brain ages at three specific times in life, a study has suggested.
- The Guardian
Drylands now make up 40% of land on Earth, excluding Antarctica, study says
An area nearly a third larger than India turned permanently arid in past three decades, research shows
- The Telegraph
Google’s quantum chip solves ‘impossible’ problems in five minutes
Google has made a quantum computer chip that can solve a problem that would be impossible for the world’s most powerful traditional computers in just five minutes.
- Euronews
‘Redefining life on Earth’: Three-quarters of the world’s land is permanently drying up
A UN summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, hopes to address global desertification - once-fertile lands turning arid.View on euronews
- Wales Online
'Cold Moon' final full moon of 2024 to be visible on Sunday - best ways to see it
Sunday, December 15, will be the final chance to see a full moon in 2024
- The Guardian
Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip
Chip takes minutes to complete tasks that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
- Prevention
Geologists Might Have Stumbled Upon the Largest Gold Mine in the World
$83 billion has just been sitting there underground this whole time.
- Hello!
Prince William's transformation 'trebles' requests for controversial £2.7k treatment
The Prince of Wales debuted a new look this summer – and his makeover has sparked a trend among men
- The Telegraph
Fall of the House of Assad, with a billion-pound fortune and blood on its hands
He didn’t look like a dictator. Awkward and gangly, his mannerisms unassuming, at least until he opened his mouth, Bashar al-Assad exuded none of the machismo of other Arab strongmen like Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein.