Science & Technology

Astronomers have discovered two enormous “bubbles” extending 50,000 light-years above and below the Milky Way galaxy’s center, linked to the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, Earth.com reported. These structures, known as the Fermi and eRosita bubbles, were independently identified by…

NASA astronaut Suni Williams has made history by logging the most spacewalking time for any female astronaut, totaling 62 hours and 6 minutes, SciTech Daily reported. On Thursday, Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore completed a successful spacewalk, which began…

Elon Musk announced that Tesla plans to introduce robotaxi services in California and other U.S. markets later this year, featuring “unsupervised” full-self-driving cars available as a paid service in Austin, Texas, by June, Anadolu Agency reported. During an earnings call,…

A new document released by the Vatican on Tuesday cautions that artificial intelligence (AI) could exacerbate poverty and social inequalities, among other concerns, Anadolu Agency reported. The note, titled Antiqua et Nova, discusses the relationship between AI and human intelligence,…

China’s DeepSeek AI platform is facing severe backlash for its alleged role in promoting state propaganda and censoring sensitive topics, particularly concerning the Uyghur community. Human rights activists and international experts, including the Campaign for Uyghur, have condemned the platform…

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has discovered rutherfordium-252 (Rf-252), the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus on record, advancing the understanding of the “island of stability” in nuclear science. This discovery, published in…

DeepSeek, a startup based in Hangzhou, China, has emerged as a significant player in the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, challenging the dominance of U.S. tech giants like Google and OpenAI, Al Jazeera reported. Founded in late 2023 by Liang Wenfeng,…

Google is ramping up efforts to shape public perception and global policies on artificial intelligence as regulatory frameworks for the technology emerge. According to Reuters, the tech giant is prioritizing educational programs to equip the workforce with AI skills. Kent…

Meta Platforms plans to invest up to $65 billion in expanding its artificial intelligence infrastructure in 2025, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday. The investment aims to strengthen Meta’s competitive position against rivals like OpenAI and Google. As part of…

A study from the University of Oxford challenges the belief that plants actively communicate to warn each other of threats, Earth.com reported. Instead, researchers suggest that plants passively “eavesdrop” on their neighbors through underground fungal networks, known as the “wood…