A NEW coronavirus found in British bats could mutate to infect humans, a study claims. The Covid-like virus could adapt to spill over into people, researchers said, although it is not clear if it has any potential to cause harm. Getty A new coronavirus in British bats could infect humans,Continue Reading
Imagine what life would be like if you couldn’t recognise your own family and friends unless they told you who they were. Now imagine no one will believe you and that even your doctor dismisses you, saying everyone forgets names sometimes. Two recent studies show this is a common experienceContinue Reading
The idea of a multiverse consisting of “parallel universes” is a popular science fiction trope, recently explored in the Oscar-winning movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. However, it is within the realm of scientific possibility. It is important to state from the start that the existence (or not) of theContinue Reading
A sentinel droid features in the film Before We Disappear. AlbinoMosquito Productions Ltd, Author provided Most films offer exactly the same viewing experience. You sit down, the film starts, the plot unfolds and you are follow what’s happening on screen until the story concludes. It’s a linear experience. My newContinue Reading
"The camera never lies," goes the old adage. But how true is that? Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock As a victim or suspect of a crime, or witness to an offence, you may find your actions, behaviour and character scrutinised by the police or a barrister using CCTV footage. You may assume all theContinue Reading
The UK government is keen to "maximise the potential" of AI Shutterstock / TierneyMJ In the area of digital technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), the UK budget can be a barometer of technological development and hype. However, there is a worrying drive towards deregulation in the background – combined withContinue Reading
Our universe is just right for structure such as galaxies, planets and life to form. NASA/James Webb Telescope Imagine a universe with extremely strong gravity. Stars would be able to form from very little material. They would be smaller than in our universe and live for a much shorter amountContinue Reading
The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, recently hinted that he may ban the social media application TikTok from devices used by government employees. His comments follow similar bans by the European Commission and US federal government. In the EU and US cases, security concerns were used as the justification forContinue Reading
FlashMovie/Shutterstock In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the universe works. Many look at those experiments and conclude that they challenge “locality” — the intuition that distant objects need a physical mediatorContinue Reading
There was little time for water from the Earth's atmosphere to contaminate the meteorite after it fell. Trustees of the Natural History Museum, Author provided On 28 February 2021, for the first time in 30 years, a meteorite fell in the UK and was later recovered by scientists. Today, there’sContinue Reading