As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe’s deepest secrets, a new Johns Hopkins study of supermassive black holes suggests. The findings could help complement multi-billion-dollar expenses and…
An illustration shows how the WindRunner aircraft will be able to carry smaller planes as cargo Windrunner / Radia The US military is exploring uses for a proposed aircraft that will be the largest plane ever built – even though the flyer is primarily designed to carry giant wind turbine blades. The WindRunner, currently under…
Apple’s last major redesign of a platform was iOS 7, a bright and vibrant take on the OS, but one that was developed and ultimately released within a different Apple. It was 2013, and Apple simply didn’t have as much of a cohesive ecosystem or as many devices. It’s not 2013, though. It’s 2025, and…
Would you leave a world wilting under a deadly sun for a digital utopia? Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Every Version of YouGrace Chan (Verve Books (UK, out now; US, 23 September)) Science fiction that features characters who spend more time in virtual reality than in real life, whether via electrodes stuck into the backs of their…
Aylo, the company which runs a number of pornographic websites, including Pornhub, is to stop operating in France from Wednesday. It is in reaction to a French law requiring porn sites to take extra steps to verify their users’ ages. An Aylo spokesperson said the law was a privacy risk and assessing people’s ages should…
New contact lenses can provide infrared vision olga Yastremska/Alamy Contact lenses have enabled people to see beyond the visible light range, picking up flickers of infrared light even in the dark – or with their eyes closed. The lenses contain engineered nanoparticles that absorb and convert infrared radiation – specifically, a near-infrared wavelength range of…
A new type of mRNA vaccine is more scalable and adaptable to continuously evolving viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H5N1, according to a study by researchers at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and the Pennsylvania State University. The study was published today in npj Vaccines. Though highly effective at inducing an immune response,…
TikTok is preventing users searching for “skinnytok” – a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which “idolises extreme thinness.” Content associated with the hashtag includes videos showing people’s work-out routines or what they eat in a day. TikTok said it had “blocked search results for #skinnytok since it has become linked to unhealthy…
Rocket 7604A delivers 32TB RAID setups and smashes 50GB/s SafeStorage encryption protects your data from unauthorized access with hardware-level security Broadcom’s PEX89048 switch IC powers four full x4 Gen5 lanes per drive HighPoint Technologies has launched the Rocket 7604A RAID AIC, a PCIe Gen5 RAID card designed to transform four 8TB M.2 SSDs into a…
