Tesla driver complains that his car’s Autopilot system is mistaking the MOON for amber traffic lights and slowing the vehicle down Jordan Nelson filmed during an evening drive in his Tesla car in North Carolina In the video, the moon can be seen low, bright and yellow in the night sky But the console shows … Read more
Archaeologists have uncovered a rock-hewn ‘dining room’ in the ‘House of Muses,’ an excavation site in southeast Turkey that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century BC, when Asia Minor was under Roman rule. After early field work in the 1990s, excavations of the ancient city of Zeugma, now modern-day Gaziantep, began in 2004. Ankara … Read more
Mammals can dream and can make ‘visual sense’ of the world before they are even born, brain scans reveal Yale researchers have discovered mammals dream before they’ve opened their eyes for the first time They saw ‘pretty sophisticated behavior’ in neonatal retinas in mice that had not yet opened their eyes After birth, this is replaced … Read more
Hubble finds water vapor on Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede, the biggest moon in the Solar System and a possible spot for extraterrestrial life NASA has confirmed that water vapor is on Jupiter’s icy moon, Ganymede Researchers analyzed data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope 20 years apart Experts believe Ganymede’s temperature near its equator ‘becomes … Read more
Why Usain Bolt will NEVER be as fast as a cheetah: Four-legged animals can reach much higher running speeds than humans because they can gallop, using their trunk muscles for propulsion, study finds Experts from the universities of Cologne and Stuttgart modelled running speeds They included factors like body shape, number of legs and propulsive … Read more
Elon Musk‘s aerospace firm SpaceX has been awarded a $178 million (£129 million) contract for NASA‘s first mission to Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon. SpaceX will provide ‘launch services’ for the Europa Clipper mission, which is due to blast off in October 2024 to study Europa through a series of fly-bys, NASA said. The spacecraft will … Read more
An international group of researchers led by the Harvard astronomer who believes the first interstellar object discovered was a ‘lightsail’ from another civilization have announced a new project to search for signs of ‘extraterrestrial technological civilizations’ (ETCs) in space. Known as the Galileo Project, the researchers – led by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb – will … Read more
Microplastics are plastic particles measuring less than five millimetres (0.2 inches). They have hit the headlines over recent years, as improper disposal has resulted in tonnes of waste making its way into the ocean. Each year, tonnes of plastic waste fails to get recycled and dealt with correctly, which can mean they end up in … Read more
Deadly week-long heatwaves will be up to SEVEN times more likely by 2050 due to climate change, study warns Swiss Federal Institute of Technology experts modelled potential future climates They looked at the rate of record heatwaves under different emission scenarios The team found these events occur more often under higher rates of warming Under … Read more
NASA‘s Ingenuity helicopter has flown its tenth flight on Mars, clocking up a total of one mile since its first flight in April. On Saturday (July 24), the robotic copter reached a height of 40 feet (12 metres) – its highest point yet – over a region on the planet called Raised Ridges. Raised Ridges is … Read more