Category: Technology

US space agency Nasa and Elon Musk’s aerospace company are all set to send a probe to a metal-rich asteroid to study the origins and evolution of the celestial rock about which the astronomers were unaware, calling it an entirely new phenomenon. It is anticipated by astronomers that the space rock could be a part of a small planet. The probe is to fly Friday bound for Psyche, an object 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion kilometres) away that could offer clues about the interior of planets like Earth. “We’ve visited…

Astronomers have discovered a new look into the Orion Nebula using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovering a planet-like object at a distance of 1,300 light-years from Earth, according to the European Space Agency.  Orion Nebula is the brightest one in the night sky which consists of clouds of dust and gas. Experts have been studying the Orion Nebula due to its hosting of objects including planet-forming disks around young stars and brown dwarfs. The astronomers Samuel G. Pearson and Mark J. McCaughrean while studying focused on the Trapezium Cluster…

Moungi Bawendi from France, Louis Brus of the United States and Russian-born Alexei Ekimov won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday creating tiny “quantum dots” that are used to light up TVs and lamps. The trio brought advances on tiny particles that “now spread their light from televisions and LED lamps, and can also guide surgeons when they remove tumour tissue,” the jury said. But a rare leak led to the winners´ names being mistakenly sent to media outlets hours before they were officially announced, prompting an apology from…

Scientists have made a significant finding about antimatter, a mysterious substance that was abundant at the beginning of the universe. Antimatter is the exact opposite of matter, which the universe is made of. Both were produced in an equal quantity during the Big Bang that gave rise to our universe. Although matter can be found everywhere, it is currently incredibly difficult to find its opposite. According to the most recent research, the two react to gravity in the same way. For years, physicists have been trying to figure out how…

ChatGPT, a generative AI platform, can now acquire data directly from the internet and gather current information in real-time in a significant development for the software, as per its developer OpenAI. Until now, ChatGPT´s responses to user queries were based on a vast database, which did not contain information from after August 2021. “ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources,” OpenAI said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “It is no longer limited to data before…

The deep space diver James Webb Space Telescope captured remarkable details about the composition of Jupiter’s moon Europa’s icy surface which hosts carbon as scientists are hopeful of finding traces of extraterrestrial life in the planets and their satellites in our solar system. Earlier researchers have described the composition of Europa’s surface with salty liquid water which designated it as a focus area of the experts searching for life outside Earth. The results of the studies published in the journal Science gave new explanations about the chemical composition of the ocean beneath…

Researchers were successful in decoding the genetic molecule ribonucleic acid (RNA) of a Tasmanian tiger that lived over a hundred years ago, allowing scientists to seek a better understanding of the species’ genetics. The hundred-year-old animal’s specimen was in the collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and the findings were published in the journal Genome Research. A lead study author Emilio Mármol Sánchez, a computational biologist at the Centre for Palaeogenetics and SciLifeLab in Sweden said: “RNA gives you the chance to go through the cell, the…

The head of WhatsApp refuted a Financial Times (FT) report on Friday that claimed the messaging service, which is owned by Meta Platforms, was considering the addition of adverts to boost revenue. Will Cathcart addressed the issue on Elon Musk-owned X, formerly known as Twitter while reposting the report by FT and saying: “This @FT story is false. We aren’t doing this.”  According to FT sources that are familiar with the situation, Meta’s teams were debating whether to display advertisements in WhatsApp chat lists with contacts, but no decisions have been made.  The report also suggested…

The US space agency Nasa officially joined the search for unidentified flying objects (UFOs) on Thursday, but in keeping with the stigma associated with the subject, it refused to name the head of the new programme entrusted with doing so. The official’s appointment is the result of a year-long Nasa fact-finding report into what Nasa calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).” “At Nasa, it’s in our DNA to explore — and to ask why things are the way they are,” Nasa chief Bill Nelson said. An independent team of 16 researchers…