The control room at quantum computer start-up Quantinuum Quantinuum The US military has launched an effort to determine who may be able to build a truly useful quantum computer within a decade, and what it may be good for. There are more than six dozen companies currently building quantum computers, but it is far from…
Pacific compass jellyfish (Chrysaora fuscescens) Heidi & Hans-Jürgen Koch These eerily beautiful images show animals born at Europe’s largest jelly-fish breeding facility: Jellyfish Farm, in Künzell, Germany – hundreds of kilometres from any ocean. Photographers Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch used macro lenses and studio flashes to capture the images, but they were most concerned with…
A world-first ‘Trojan horse’ therapy is being made available on the NHS in England Source link
Topline Global crude oil prices jumped sharply while US stock futures fell early on Friday after Israel conducted a round of military strikes against Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership, marking a significant escalation of tensions in the Middle East region. A man walks at the scene of an explosion in a residence compound in…
Jun 12, 2025, 03:21 PM ET Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Thomas Frank as the club’s new head coach after prying the manager away from his previous post at Brentford. Spurs made the announcement on Thursday. Editor’s Picks 2 Related ESPN reported that Spurs were hopeful of naming Frank, 51, as Ange Postecoglou’s successor after also…
Current regulations for nanomedicines overlook the effects of the different forms of the same element, such as ions, nanoparticles, and aggregates. In a recent study, Japanese researchers developed a new analytical method combining an asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation system and mass spectrometry to separately quantify these forms. This technique allows for better quality control and…
A sea of galaxies photographed by the Euclid space telescope ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi Extraordinary images from the Euclid space telescope have captured 26 million galaxies, some as far off as 10.5 billion light years. Euclid was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in July 2023 and…
Eleanor Lawrie Social affairs reporter BBC Listen to this article “Whenever I was struggling, if it was going to be a really bad day, I could then start to chat to one of these bots, and it was like [having] a cheerleader, someone who’s going to give you some good vibes for the day. “I’ve…
Being first to market with a drug can be crucial. Eli Lilly is proving that being second but better can also pay. Zepbound, the American firm’s weight-loss jab, was approved in its home country in November 2023, more than two years after Wegovy, made by Novo Nordisk, a Danish rival. Over the following year it…
A council leader has said an MP’s claims the local authority takes a “disproportionate number” of asylum seekers were “misleading and inflammatory”. Conservative MP for Stockton West Matt Vickers said in Parliament last week that Stockton Borough Council had “volunteered” to take in more asylum seekers and it left “huge numbers of lone men hanging…
