Big Ideas
Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race
Billionaires posturing over commercial spaceflight is the ultimate cockfight, but with Virgin below 100km up everyone gets to say 'First!'
Big Ideas
Reshaping what's possible
Technology
Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute
New research shows elite free divers incredible control puts them in the same oxygen management league as dolphins, seals and whales.
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NASA's Martian helicopter just keeps crushing its targets
Now nine flights deep into its extended mission, Ingenuity keeps pushing its limits – and keeps proving it has what it takes.
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LEGO is prototyping bricks made from recycled bottle plastics
The company is investing $400M into sustainability projects, including turning recycled PET plastics into LEGO. And research is going well.
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Scientists discover Triassic era beetle perfectly preserved in dino-dung
It's 100 million years older than any insect we've seen before, all thanks to a scan on some fossilised Triassic era dinosaur droppings.
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We have never seen atomic imagery in this kind of detail before
Using advanced ptychography, Cornell University researchers have captured a picoscale image 3x better than the best electron microscopy.
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"Cold snap means it isn't real" and other climate change myths busted
It isn't "good for us", it won't fix itself, and weather isn't climate. We bust the big myths wheeled out again and again by deniers.
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Pentagon report says UFOs can’t be explained – that really is a big deal
The big report has arrived, and with no clear explanations we don't have to say 'aliens' but we do have to take UFOs seriously.
Technology
Duolingo, the app that guilts you into studying languages, is about to IPO
The owl that keeps trying to remind you to work hard to achieve your goals is about to get an IPO cash injection.
Big Ideas
Do aliens exist? We asked five experts to tell us what's really out there
With US government documents getting conspiracies buzzing again, we ask five space scientists: are aliens really out there?
Networks
How rain, wind, heat and other weather can impact on your internet
We look at the technical – and the social – reasons why severe weather situations can impact on how well your Internet connection is working.
Technology
How will data make your car better? BlackBerry has some ideas
Sarah Tatsis tells us about how vehicle data and in-car information systems are evolving and how to protect the data while making it useful.