Sci &Tech

The future of the Dead Sea appears to be moving in a quieter direction than many earlier warnings suggested. New long term modelling points to a lake that becomes smaller, warmer and increasingly saline, but not one that suddenly disappears. The work follows how the lake responds to water loss and changing climate conditions over…

This screengrab from video provided by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon departing from the International Space Station shortly after undocking with four NASA Crew-11 members inside on January 14 14, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA/AP A: On January 15 morning, Crew-11 to the International Space Station (ISS) performed a rapid evacuation, with NASA getting…

Europe has a new ‘space phone line’ and it can hear missions across the solar system (AI-generated) The European Space Agency has quietly added a major piece to its global space communications network with the inauguration of a new deep space antenna in Western Australia. The structure doesn’t change the missions’ appearance or destination, but…

Tech companies have raced to build out compute capacity to fuel their AI ambitions but are now faced with a new bottleneck: memory capacity. The crunch comes as workloads shift from training models to using AI tools, and it’s driven in part by agentic AI, where a system can execute tasks independently. AI agents require…

Japan ends the Akatsuki mission after a decade of tracking Venus’s turbulent skies (AI-generated) Japan has quietly closed the book on Akatsuki, a spacecraft that spent more time around Venus than anyone first expected. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed that termination procedures began on September 18, 2025, after efforts to regain contact failed. By…

Pannotia occupies an awkward position in Earth science. It is described in textbooks and review papers, yet its outline remains faint. The proposed supercontinent is said to have existed around 600 million years ago, before the better-known Pangea. For years, it offered a neat bridge between the breakup of Rodinia and the later assembly of…

The Stevens Institute of Technology in the US recently said some of its scientists plus a group at Yale University will be building “the world’s first experiment explicitly designed to detect individual gravitons”. The announcement has already drawn sceptical attention from the physics community — but also $1.3 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The…

This mushroom coffin is changing how people think about death and eco-friendly funerals (AI-generated) Loop Biotech is a company based in the Netherlands that aims to change people’s perception of burial and cremation completely. Designers Bob and Lonneke Hendrikx, the founders of the company, grow funeral products from mycelium, which is the underground root network…

Baby dinosaur fossils found in Arctic permafrost reveal how dinosaurs survived polar winters (Image source: AI- Generated) In a startling flip-flop on our perspectives on ancient civilisations, scientists have discovered baby dinosaur fossils buried in Arctic permafrost, thereby validating that dinosaurs did nest in the polar regions. These fossils of dinosaurs that are merely 2…

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