An AI model can calculate the biological age of people from a simple portrait photo – and provides information about the survival prognosis for cancer patients. But how reliably can a face really provide information about life and illness?
A Soviet probe is expected to return to Earth tomorrow after 53 years. Kosmos-482, originally designed for the Venus landing, could survive re-entry and hit the Earth’s surface almost intact due to its robustness.
Something happened at CERN that has a profound impact on our understanding of matter: a measurement suggests that one of the most stable principles of modern physics – the flavor symmetry between up and down quarks – is violated in certain collisions.
In an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, lead atoms were observed turning into gold – not by magic, but by a quantum physical process during extremely fast near-collisions.
While the EU is sticking to e-car quotas, it is surprisingly changing the rules of the game: car manufacturers are now allowed to compensate for CO2 limits over three years instead of annually. The decision was made by a clear majority – despite warnings of significant climate consequences.
ITER is still a silent colossus of components – but the system that will later bring it to millions of degrees has now impressively ignited. The long-suffering large-scale project has achieved significant technical success.
Four legs, red housing, hissing jet of water: In China, a robot dog is heading towards a fire – not for show, but as part of a fire brigade team. The Unitree B2 is intended to help where people are stuck – with exciting technology.
Tesla’s sales in Germany and the UK fell to their lowest level in two years in April, despite the growing electric market. The numbers are dramatic: just 885 Teslas were sold in Germany and only 512 in the UK.
Controlling insects with technology has long been more than science fiction: They are supposed to crawl through rubble, detect pollutants or transmit location data. A research team from Japan is now pursuing a new idea – a cicada as a living alarm.
Tesla stops developing the range extender for the Cybertruck. The additional battery intended as a solution to the disappointing range will never appear. Customers only receive a brief message – there is no apology.
