The closest images detailing one of our Milky Way galaxy’s most stunning celestial entities - the Horsehead Nebula - have been captured by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope.
The most powerful telescope ever built, which floats in space, snapped close-ups of the molecular cloud’s gas waves rising up inside the constellation of Orion.
Infra-red imaging was used to capture the images 1,300-million light years away from Earth, revealing detail in the edges of the equine-shaped nebula’s ‘mane’.
Medics conducting a robotics-assisted trial at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital hope lung cancer could be diagnosed and removed from patients in one sitting in the future using a novel microwave procedure.
A fleet of up to 20 autonomous freight lorries is being prepared to take to America’s highways, with a Dallas to Houston run planned by the end of 2024..
Chris Urmson, chief executive of Aurora Innovation, tells the Associated Press how the sensor-packing AI and machine learning trucking tech works without a human driver.
A report by the Policy Exchange conservative think tank suggests headteachers should make sure pupils hand in or lock up their smartphones at the start of each school day.
University of Delaware researchers find traces of arsenic in the covers of more than 200 Victorian-era books.
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A laser-powered message from a Nasa spacecraft back to Earth pinged 140 million miles across the galaxy to test future Mars mission communications.
Plus, US Air Force $13bn ‘doomsday fleet’ to protect POTUS and a study examines factors influencing time of the human life cycle.
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