Sign up for CNN’s Science of Miracles newsletter. Explore the universe with news of fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. CNN – The final attempt at the inaugural crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is on track for Wednesday after a computer glitch halted the countdown just moments before liftoff on Saturday. The historic mission, … Read more
Thousands of women with advanced breast cancer in England and Wales are being denied a drug that cuts the risk of the disease spreading by more than a third. Enhertu has been approved for HER2-low breast cancer patients in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has rejected … Read more
Jupiter’s moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on January 10, 2024. This is the highest-resolution image of Io ever taken by an Earth-based telescope. The image combines three spectral bands—infrared, red, and yellow—to highlight the reddish ring around Pele volcano (below and to the right of the moon’s center) and the white ring around Pillan Patera, … Read more
Einstein’s theory of gravity is a cornerstone of modern cosmology. It has been tested and proven correct over and over and is supported by the discovery of countless cosmic phenomena: from gravitational lensing discovered by Arthur Eddington in 1919 and anomalies observed in the orbit of Mercury, to galactic redshifts and gravitational waves. The theory … Read more
The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing continued uncertainty about when the launch vehicle will be ready to fly. “I signed the contract in 2018 based on the assumption that dearMoon would be launched by the end of 2023,” … Read more
Unbound Gravel was a hot spot for unreleased new bike technology this year. We spotted SRAM’s unreleased Red XPLR AXS 13-speed groupset, a COROS bike computer with 90+ hours of battery life, new racing kit and new wheels. We also got glimpses of the new bikes, including a Giant prototype that we’re pretty sure is … Read more
Briefing Google collected and stored personal data from apps like Waze and YouTube over a six-year period, including data from vulnerable users. High-priority incidents included the recording of children’s voices, the leaking of internal YouTube content, and the transcription of license plate information through Street View. Google’s breach also included inappropriate access to sensitive data, … Read more
Anyone with an iPhone or Android should turn the device on and off once a week, officials say — to protect them from hackers. The idea is to thwart ‘zero-click’ hacks, which involve downloading spyware to users’ phones without ever clicking a link. The National Security Agency (NSA) approves the reset method, which temporarily deletes … Read more
By Nikki Chief Science Reporter for Dailymail.Com 16:30 03 June 2024, updated 18:23 03 June 2024 Anyone with an iPhone or Android should turn the device on and off once a week, officials say — to protect them from hackers. The idea is to thwart ‘zero-click’ hacks, which involve downloading spyware to users’ phones without … Read more
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time, to a Jewish molecular biologist named Elena Zhukova. Murdoch, 93, who is not Jewish, married Zhukova, 67, who is the former mother-in-law of Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich. The pair married on Saturday in a ceremony at Murdoch’s summer estate in Bel Air, California. His media … Read more