Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new calculator estimates a person’s risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the next 30 years by combining measures of cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health for…
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World-First Zero Space Debris Charter Goes Live
More satellites were launched in the last few years than the entire six decades of space exploration. 130 million pieces of space debris larger than a millimetre orbit Earth, threatening…
First Images from Euclid – Journey Into Cosmic Web Begins
The Euclid mission is the first to deliver images from nearby regions of the Universe. The spacecraft can record the data from an area of the sky more than one…
Samsung to add real-time translation to smartphone model
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain South Korean smartphone giant Samsung Electronics will roll out a real-time translation service on calls using AI technology next year, a company representative told AFP on…
Lack of friend or family visits is associated with increased risk of dying
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Never being visited by friends or family is associated with an increased risk of dying, according to a study published in BMC Medicine. The authors suggest…
How hummingbirds fly through spaces too narrow for their wings
Hummingbirds are natural acrobats, twisting their wings in ways that let them fly backward and upside down, unlike any other bird (SN: 1/13/16). New high-speed video now shows how, using…
Ultrafast lasers on ultra-tiny chips
A nanophotonic mode-locked laser built on lithium niobate emits a beam of green laser light. Credit: Caltech Lasers have become relatively commonplace in everyday life, but they have many uses…
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of the spacecraft’s photon shields. These concentric cones protect the telescope from light…
Archaeologists search for missing persons from the October 7th massacre |
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have been enlisted by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) to search for remains of missing persons from the 7th October…
