Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered one of the universe’s oldest galaxies, formed a mere 390 million years after the Big Bang.
The University of Texas at Austin team, led by Steven Finkelstein, used the $10 billion telescope’s spectroscopic analysis capabilities to determine the galaxy’s age.
Scientists say Maisie’s galaxy - named after Professor Finklestein’s daughter - is one of the four earliest confirmed galaxies ever seen, after examining its chemical makeup, heat output, brightness and movement.
Archaeologists have been using LiDAR-equipped drones to shed new light on one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War - the Battle of the Bulge.
Tech & Science Daily podcast speaks with Dr Birger Stichelbaut, a conflict archaeologist at Ghent University, who explains what they found around the Ardennes forest in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Snapchat’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot is raising a few eyebrows after the tech appeared to go rogue.
Users report My AI posting a strange story to its profile and then being unresponsive to text chats, followed by the same reply of “Sorry, I encountered a technical issue.”
Plus, vitamin D hope to cut cancer, vaping link to bronchitis wheezing, ‘demon particle’ superconductor, Pink Floyd’s brain waves and Harrison Ford’s snake honour.
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