Social media companies change their policies in the wake of bad press
Social media companies appear to be sensitive to criticism Shutterstock/easy camera Negative news stories about social media platforms appear to be highly effective at pressuring
SpaceX prepares for Starship flight with first ‘chopstick’ landing
A test of the Super Heavy Booster for Starship’s fifth test flight SpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the fifth and most ambitious Starship
Dark matter may solve the mystery of how colossal black holes merge
How do enormous black holes merge? Jurik Peter/Shutterstock Supermassive black holes sometimes merge, but for decades, astrophysicists have not known how. Now, we may finally
Wafer-thin light sail could help us reach another star sooner
A mission to the sun’s closest neighbouring star, Alpha Centauri, could be made faster thanks to a tiny light sail punctured with billions of tiny
102 Things to Do With a Hole: Epic images of transformed mines captured in new book
DnA/Design and Architecture This epic image (pictured above) shows an inventive reincarnation of an abandoned Chinese quarry as an open-air library. Enclosed bookshelves line the
Watch a robot peel a squash with human-like dexterity
A robot that peels vegetables in the same way that people do demonstrates a level of dexterity that could help move delicate objects along a
AI can reveal what’s on your screen via signals leaking from cables
Hackers could view someone’s computer screen by picking up signals from the HDMI cable g-stockstudio/Getty Images Hackers can intercept electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable
Millions of trees could grow faster with a boost from wild fungi
A start-up is inoculating tree seedlings with wild fungi Funga A million trees and counting have been inoculated with native fungi by a US start-up
Nine Lives: The worlds of nine neurodiverse people are imaginative and rich
The message of Nine Minds is that there is no such thing as a single neurodiverse experience Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters Nine MindsDaniel Tammet (Wellcome Collection)
Biodegradable microplastics may actually be worse for soil and plants
Some supermarkets now use biodegradable plastic bags UrbanImages/Alamy Biodegradable plastics that get broken down into microplastics appear to damage soil and affect plant growth more