Iceland’s preparing for a huge volcanic eruption as a river of magma pours beneath homes following a series of earthquakes.
Tech & Science Daily podcast has the latest with Kyana Sue Powers, a travel expert and photographer living in the capital, Reykjavík, who tells us about her experiences of tremors hitting the volcanic peninsula.
A river of noxious magma is bubbling closer to the surface, and authorities evacuated the nearby town of Grindavik after seismic shocks caused huge fissures in the town’s buildings and roads.
A laser-equipped robot ‘chemist’ powered by artificial intelligence software is being programmed to create oxygen on future Mars missions.
Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei trained the droid to try and ‘harvest’ oxygen using Martian water deposits and catalyst compounds from meteorite materials found on Earth.
Scientists are raising concerns about a creepy real-life hybrid fungus not dissimilar to that horrible underground entity in HBO’s series ‘The Last of Us’.
The team at Barcelona’s Institute for Research in Biomedicine says Candida orthopsilosis grows at higher temperatures as a result of climate change and resists anti-fungal drugs.
We may be out of outdoor strawberry picking season here in the UK, but a study by the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati finds eating strawberries could help cut the risk of dementia.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has been bequested $200 million by late Qualcomm co-founder Franklin Antonnio, to continue its work hunting for advanced civilisations beyond our own orbit.
The organisation says the funding will help improve their use of data analytics, machine learning and signal detection technologies to scour the universe for signs of life.
Plus, XL Bully dog ban register, King Charles back Balmoral river restoration and AI’s official Scottish tartan.
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