Swippitt replaces dead phone batteries in two seconds Swippitt A new device called Swippitt is promising to bring the days of running out of phone battery to an end. The toaster-sized unit — unveiled at CES 2025 in Las Vegas – contains five batteries that can be near-instantly swapped with a dead one inside your […]
Wildfires around the world are overwhelming fire services and becoming humanitarian disasters. Rather than short-term ‘save and rescue’ efforts focusing on just the flames, there should be more widespread recognition that fire is a natural process that is essential and unavoidable. Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests.
As the U.S. continues to face a shortage of available homes, some may be looking at those occupied by “empty nesters” as an incoming source of inventory. As older residents begin to downsize, the thinking goes, the millions of homes they currently own will fill the deficit, thus bringing housing costs down. However, those units […]
Three decades on from the unsolved murder of a mother who was attacked in a churchyard, detectives have renewed their push to find her killer or killers. Tracey Mertens was doused in petrol and set alight in Eaton churchyard near Congleton, in Cheshireon 23 December 1994. She was 31-years-old. Despite having burns to around 95 […]
A Google Street View image played in role in solving a missing person investigation in Spain, according to reports from the BBC and The New York Times. The image, which can still be seen on Street View, shows what appears to be a person loading a large object into the trunk of a car, as […]
If you thought the dust bunnies under your sofa were an issue, imagine trying to combat dust on the Moon. Dust is a significant challenge for astronauts living and working on the lunar surface. So, NASA is developing technologies that mitigate dust buildup enabling a safer, sustainable presence on the Moon. A flight test aboard […]
According to the United Nations, plastic production skyrocketed from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to about 400 million in 2024. This number is expected to triple by 2060. Only 10 percent of this plastic is currently being recycled and reused. The rest will remain in our environment for centuries, polluting the planet, from oceans […]
Illustration: Barbara Gibson. Images: Getty/Alamy Killer viruses. Artificial intelligence. Extreme weather. Microplastics. Mental health. These are just a few of the pressing issues on which governments need science to inform their policies. But the systems that connect scientists with politicians are not working well, according to a Nature survey of around 400 science-policy specialists around […]
If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the surrounding denser regions, as shown by the red arrows. Credit: Moritz Haslbauer and Zarija Lukic Astronomers have known for a century that the universe is expanding. We […]
A client (left) has a counselling session with a lay therapist on a Friendship Bench in Harare.Credit: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Kisumu, Kenya As the bells ring out at Archbishop Okoth Ojolla Girls’ High School, 900 students descend onto a field, carrying brightly coloured chairs. Every week for a month, the students have been gathering […]
