Esa’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission has successfully launched after rocket and probe blasted off from French Guiana, following the first attempt being scotched by bad weather.
Dr Ben Dryer, a research fellow at the Open University who’s worked on the Juice project, explains the critical one-second launch window and the challenges of photographic equipment being exposed to highly damaging space radiation.
There’s eight years and four billion miles to go for Juice to reach Jupiter’s moons on the hunt for life-supporting conditions.
The first photograph of an orange donut-shaped supermassive black hole - in Messier 87 galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth - has been transformed to its maximum resolution by artificial intelligence software.
A fuzzy image captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon, a global array of radio telescopes, was fed into trained AI software called Primo by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Drivers on Britain’s motorways are being allowed to let go of steering wheels for the first time, after the UK became the first European country to approve a hands-free system.
Ford’s BlueCruise self-driving system is only available on the electric 2023 Mustang Mach-E, which features five radars and a forward-facing camera - but the service costs nearly £18 a month, on top of the forecourt price.
AI helps ID British therizinosaur by dental records, with the Natural History Museum’s Simon Wills.
Plus, Ghana’s Oxford University malaria vaccine approval, hearing aids to fight dementia and the brave scientists taking blood samples from bears to help treat human clotting disorders.
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