The World's Biggest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Just Came Online.

The world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity's future energy needs. Fusion differs from fission, the technique currently used in nucle…

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WhatsApp might soon start showing status in chat window.

WhatsApp, Meta’s instant messaging platform, with more than 2 billion users worldwide, is testing a new feature that shows a contact’s profile information in the chat window. First spotted by WABetaInfo, the newest version of WhatsApp beta (v2.23.25.11) for Android now shows…

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Google Opens Up its Bard AI Tool to teenagers around the world.

Google's conversational AI chatbot, called Bard, is now available to teens in most countries around the world, the company said this week in a blog post. Teenage users in those areas must meet the minimum age requirements to manage their own Google account, which genera…

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Ethiopian scientist Gebisa Ejeta receives National Medal of Science from US.

Ethiopian-born scientist Gebisa Ejeta has received the National Medal of Science, the highest state honour attainable by scientists in the United States. US President Joe Biden said he awarded Mr Ejeta the medal for his "outstanding contributions to the science of plant…

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announces move to Miami from Seattle.

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos said he was moving to Miami from the Seattle region, relocating to be closer to his parents and the Cape Canaveral operations of Blue Origin LLC, his space exploration company. Bezos — the world’s third-wealthiest man, according to the Bloo…

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China to build world's largest underwater 'ghost particle' detector.

China is undertaking a massive scientific endeavor by constructing the world's largest "ghost particle" detector beneath the Western Pacific Ocean's surface, named the Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) or "Ocean Bell" in Chinese. Acco…

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Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

This year’s Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries. Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender …

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Archaeologists Find Hidden Chambers in Pyramid of Egyptian Pharaoh.

A team of Egyptian and German researchers led by Mohamed Ismail Khaled from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg recently uncovered multiple storage chambers within the ruins of the Fifth Dynasty pyramid of the pharaoh Sahura, putting centuries of ambiguity surrou…

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Scientists discover half-a-million-year-old wooden structure.

Scientists working in Zambia have discovered what are believed to be the remains of the world’s oldest wooden structure. Dated to some 476,000 years ago, they are almost a hundred times older than the Pyramids in Egypt. Professor Larry Barham from the University of Liverpool…

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3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots.

Moungi Bawendi, of MIT, Louis Brus, of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., were honored for their work with the tiny particles that are just a few atoms in diameter and whose electrons have constrained movement.  This effects how they abs…

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Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has …

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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to scientists for work on electrons.

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds. Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian Uni…

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465-million-year-old trilobite found with Gut Contents Preserved.

The newly-discovered fossilized specimen of Bohemolichas incola, a species of trilobite that lived during the Ordovician period, provides by far the most detailed source of information to date concerning the diet and the feeding mode of trilobites. Bohemolichas incola appea…

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The World’s First Known Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery.

In early June, about 150 miles off the western shore of Costa Rica and 10,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, an octopus hatched just in time to see an alien invasion. As the newborn slipped from her egg and into her world—a strip of rocky seamount heated slightly by hydrot…

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Evidence of a Wooden Structure that predates our species uncovered.

A pair of interlocking logs that haven't seen sunlight in half a million years could challenge some fundamental assumptions about the technology and culture of our Stone Age ancestors. Uncovered in 2019 at the Kalambo Falls in Zambia, the objects provide archaeologists w…

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Scientists discover skull of giant predator long before the dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs have a reputation for being the most terrifying prehistoric predators, but a newly discovered skull sheds light on a fearsome beast that dominated 40 million years before the first 'terrible lizards' walked the Earth. The 265-million-year-old fossil found i…

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Dennis Austin, Co-Creator of PowerPoint, Dies.

Dennis Austin, the co-creator of PowerPoint presentation died at his home in Los Altos, California on September 1, he was 76. His son, Michael Austin, told that he was suffering from lung cancer metastasising to his brain. Mr Austin had studied engineering at several univers…

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Magnetic Bacteria Discovered in Deep-Sea Vents.

Scientists discover bacteria capable of “sensing” Earth’s magnetic field in deep-sea vents. Bacteria that can align themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field have been found in a new habitat. Previously spotted on land and in shallow waters, these magnetotactic bacteria hav…

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Microsoft is removing WordPad from Windows after nearly 30 years.

Microsoft is no longer updating WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows. The software giant will instead recommend Microsoft Word, its paid word processor that has always been far more feature rich than the basic WordPad app that has …

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4.6 billion-year-old meteorite could reveal how Earth formed different layers.

Scientists have analyzed one of the oldest space rocks ever discovered. The data could reveal secrets about the solar system in its infancy during the birth of the planets and also help scientists better determine the ages of the oldest meteorites that fall to Earth.  The 4.…

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