Final: Arsenal 3-2 Corinthians (aet) Smith 15, Wubben-Moy 58, Foord 104; Zanotti 21, Albuquerque 90+6 pen The most decorated women’s club in England made more history in London on Sunday night, Arsenal securing a 3-2 win over the Copa Libertadores champions Corinthians in extra time to see them crowned winners...
Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch
Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain organic matter Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put...
Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention
Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those...
Transfer deadline day: Mateta, Strand Larsen, Jacquet latest and more – live
⚽ Transfer interactive: deals from Europe’s top five leagues⚽ 7pm GMT deadline | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Daniel It’s strange, really, that Liverpool spent so much money on forwards last summer, the part of their team that was working, and ignored the midfield and defence, which were not....
‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods;...
Starwatch: Orion the hunter dominates the February night sky
Straddling the celestial equator, the constellation is visible in both hemispheres Orion, the hunter, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky, is well placed for observation from the northern hemisphere during February. Straddling the celestial equator – the projection of Earth’s equator on to the night sky...
Engineers just found a way to cool quantum systems using microwave noise
In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, the Chalmers team unveiled what they call a minimal quantum refrigerator. The device operates not by shielding qubits from disturbances but by exploiting controlled randomness – precisely tuned microwave noise – to direct heat flow within superconducting circuits. Read Entire Article
Small brains, big compute: Scientists want to build GPS chips that work like a honeybee’s brain
GPS is more than just a way for us to get from point A to point B. Our smartphones, vehicles, drones, cameras, wearable devices, and countless other technologies all rely on it, and the complex computation supporting it, to enable the modern conveniences we enjoy everyday. Read Entire Article
Apple redesigns its Mac buying experience with a new build-to-order configurator
It's a notable departure from Apple's long-standing sales formula. Historically, Mac models were divided into several predefined versions, such as base, mid-tier, and maxed-out. Those bundles helped Apple keep inventory predictable while giving customers an easy pricing ladder to climb. The downside was a kind of hidden complexity: specifications could......
Streamer’s RTX 4090 catches fire while live on Twitch, gamer asks viewers “WTF do I do?”
Before we go one step further, let's drop a friendly TechSpot Public Service Announcement: if you're using your PC and your PC catches on fire, you don't need to ask anyone if it's bad. Just shut down your PC. Immediately. Really, nothing is going to get better from that point......