Technology

There is a reason the most recognizable planet orbiting two stars is the fictional desert world of Tatooine from Star Wars. So far, astronomers have only located 18 examples of circumbinary planets—a fraction of the over 6,000 exoplanets known to science. However, researchers at Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW) believe there’s a better way to spot potential dual-sun ...

A satellite image captured a stunning ring of phytoplankton that had enough splashes of color to make even the most ambitious fantasy film director blush. NASA Earth’s Facebook page shared the shimmering halo that formed near the Chatham Islands, some 500-plus miles away from New Zealand’s South Island and the city of Christchurch. As the post described, satellites can spot ...

Japan Airlines (JAL) will start using humanoid robots in ground handling tasks at Tokyo’s Haneda airport beginning May in a two-year trial, with a view to deploying them permanently as a solution to the country’s chronic labor shortage. The Chinese-made humanoids will move travellers’ luggage and cargo on the tarmac at Haneda, which handles more than 60 million passengers a ...

Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new artificial intelligence model on Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost chatbot that matched the capabilities of US rivals. The long-awaited DeepSeek-V4 “features an ultra-long context of one million words, achieving leadership in both domestic and open-source fields across agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning performance”, the company ...

YouTube is offering Hollywood celebrities and entertainers a free detection tool to help combat their deepfakes, expanding the Google-owned video platform’s efforts to guard against AI-driven impersonations. Last month, YouTube introduced its likeness protection tool — which helps identify content in which a person’s face appears altered or generated using AI technology — to government officials, journalists, and political candidates. ...

A blue-eyed humanoid robot carefully opens a box and places a tool inside as a crowd of visitors watch the demonstration of “physical AI” skills at a major industrial trade fair in Germany. Made by German startup Agile Robots, it was among a host of robots showing off their moves at the event, underlining hopes of a coming AI-powered boost ...

Apple on Monday named longtime hardware boss John Ternus as its next CEO, turning to another insider to steer the iPhone maker after Tim Cook as it navigates a world radically altered by artificial intelligence, a technology it has lagged on. Cook, a supply-chain genius who boosted Apple’s market value by $3.6 trillion in his 15 years at the helm, ...

Within the evolving landscape of regulatory peptides, few molecules have generated as much sustained theoretical interest as GHK, also known as glycyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine. Despite its compact structure—composed of only three amino acids—this endogenous tripeptide has been repeatedly situated at the intersection of regenerative biology, extracellular matrix dynamics, redox modulation, and genomic coordination. Discovered in the 1970s in plasma, GHK later became ...

Immortality has always been one of humanity’s oldest obsessions. Kings searched for it, philosophers argued about it, and billionaires now spend fortunes chasing it. But the idea of immortality is no longer confined to science fiction, as a Boston biotech company plans to begin the first human trial of a treatment designed to reverse cellular aging later this year. According ...

Chances are, we’ve all encountered a website that simply refuses to let you leave using the back button in your browser. It’s called back button hijacking, and it’s one of the most annoying things on the internet. Now, Google is hoping to help curb the practice by punishing websites that do it in Google Search results. The company announced the ...