A partnership between University of Sheffield engineers, Pauley Group and HS1 Ltd is to develop an AR platform to help monitor the real-time performance of St Pancras International station services. The project will allow for engineers to swiftly detect and repair faults within lifts, escalators and travelators in one of the UK’s busiest train stations … Read more
YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend US President Donald Trump’s account over concerns about “the ongoing potential for violence”. The video sharing site said the account would be inaccessible for “a minimum of seven days”, meaning Trump will not have access until after President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Social networks have been … Read more
Last month, the probe successfully delivered a capsule back to Earth containing a sample of rocks that it had collected from the surface of the asteroid. While analysis of the samples is still underway, researchers have used data from the spacecraft’s other instruments to reveal new details about the asteroid’s past. They found that Ryugu isn’t quite … Read more
A space telescope barely larger than a mini fridge could reveal new secrets about the cosmos, thanks to onboard instruments which observe the ultraviolet spectrum. The Aspera mission, which will receive around $20m in funding from Nasa, is designed to study the evolution of galaxies and the spaces between them. In particular, the mission seeks … Read more
The UK-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft is making a flyby of Venus, using the planet’s gravitational field to slingshot itself closer to the Sun. The spacecraft, which launched in February, will make its closest approach to the planet just after midday on 27 December. It will fly some 7,500 km from the Venus cloud tops while … Read more
Nasa will end attempts by its Insight lander to dig down into the soil on Mars after concluding that it had not been able to gain the friction it needed to do so. One of the digger’s core objectives was to measure the internal heat flow of the planet using a mole called HP3 which … Read more
Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have led a project to develop a hard, electronic smartphone display material which can self-heal from cracks and other damage. Smartphone display repair can often cost so much that many owners decide it isn’t worth paying for and simply dump the phone for an entirely new handset … Read more
Researchers from Ohio State University have developed a machine learning method which helps to determine which existing medications could be applied to improve outcomes in diseases for which they have not been prescribed. Drug repurposing – which accelerates the commercialisation of drugs and lowers the risk associated with safety testing – is not a new concept. … Read more
The Singaporean Minister for Home Affairs has confirmed that the state’s police force has the authority to access Covid-19 contact-tracing app data for the purposes of criminal investigations, raising potential privacy concerns. Singapore’s TraceTogether app was developed in less than two months and was among the first Covid-19 contact tracing apps to be launched. The … Read more
Researchers from University College London’s Sainsbury Wellcome Centre have devised a brain-machine interface (BMI) which allows mice to learn to move a cursor to a target using only their brain activity The study sheds light on how the brain represents causally-controlled objects. When a mouse was controlling the cursor, brain activity in the higher visual … Read more