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James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

‘Artificial intelligence’ myths have existed for centuries – from the ancient Greeks to a pope’s chatbot

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th...

AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

Images of faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are so realistic that even "super recognizers" — an elite group with exceptionally strong facial processing...

‘What the heck is this?’ James Webb telescope spots inexplicable planet with diamonds and soot in its atmosphere

A distant exoplanet appears to sport a sooty atmosphere that is confusing the scientists who recently spotted it.The Jupiter-size world, detected by the James...

The Self-Gifter’s Christmas: Treat yourself with gear you’ll actually want this Christmas

Here at Live Science, we have created a guide to 22 gifts for nature lovers to give you some ideas of what to buy...

Comet 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest point to Earth tonight: How to see it in the sky and online

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected by astronomers, will make its closest approach to Earth overnight between Thursday and Friday (Dec. 18...

30 models of the universe proved wrong by final data from groundbreaking cosmology telescope

After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern Chile said goodbye in...