Endurance swimmer and environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh is preparing for his latest swim: covering the length of the Hudson River through New York State.
He’ll become the first person to complete an unassisted swim along the whole river, a 315 mile journey that he’s expecting will take 30 days to complete.
Lewis tells Tech & Science Daily he wants to highlight the importance of protecting the world’s rivers from pollution, and explains how he hopes to expose the issue to world leaders.
Virgin Galactic’s first ever paying space tourist has said the suborbital trip was the most exciting day of his life.
80-year-old former Olympian Jon Goodwin became the second person with Parkinson's disease to go to space and was joined by competition winners 46-year-old Keisha Schahaff, and her 18-year-old daughter Ana Mayers from Antigua and Barbuda.
For the third time, experiments have shown a small particle, called a muon, does not behave as predicted by the ‘Standard Model’, the rulebook physicists use to describe and understand how the universe works at the subatomic level.
An international team of researchers have once again shown that the particle’s ‘wobble’ when put in front of a magnetic field is more magnetic than theory suggests it should be.
The state of California has given the green light for robotaxis to operate 24/7.
Two autonomous vehicle companies, Waymo and Cruise, currently only offer limited services in the state, but the ruling means they can now operate like other taxi firms Uber and Lyft.
And the rest
Apple is moving the end call button on the iPhone, 'smart’ socks that track distress in people living with dementia could transform care, and an Edinburgh restaurant sets up a sushi belt powered by laughter.
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