It's a foundational element of device integrity, but you wouldn't be the first person to beg the question, "What is a UPS?"

A strange world is being stretched out of shape by its neighbouring planets, heating it up so intensely that it probably has a molten surface

A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the Milky Way, but its continued existence hints it may be held together by a massive amount of dark matter

The most useful thing to know about the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is that it is an international standard. If you travel in Europe and many other parts of the world, GSM is the only type of cellular service available.

AI allows robots to listen to verbal instructions while learning to correctly perform household tasks. That could enable more natural interactions between humans and robots

Records of total solar eclipses go back thousands of years, and in all that time they have allowed scientists to uncover key information about not just the sun but the whole universe

When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likely to be won over by the artificial intelligence

A 3-letter word has been taken out of each of the following words. Can you figure it out?

L _ _ _ R
R _ _ _ L
_ _ _ NT
RELI _ _ _


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A 63-hour-long marathon of GPS jamming attacks disrupted global satellite navigation systems for hundreds of aircraft flying through the Baltic region – and Russia is thought to be responsible

You are given a pool of eight 4-letter words. Your job is to use all of the words in the pool to create four pairs of words such that each pair can be anagrammed into an 8-letter word. Example: pare + such = purchase.

Pool: beer, dine, iris, oven, punt, tale, tuna, wild


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What phrase is represented by the following?

111SOCKSOCK"KNOCK"
11SOCKSOCK"KNOCK"
1SOCKSOCK"KNOCK"
SOCKSOCK"KNOCK"
OCKSOCK"KNOCK"
CKSOCK"KNOCK"
KSOCK"KNOCK"
SOCK"KNOCK"
OCK"KNOCK"
CK"KNOCK"
K"KNOCK"
"KNOCK"


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Solar scientists have been preparing for years for a 4-minute window, during the total solar eclipse on 8 April, in which they will study the sun's corona

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images after surviving its second lunar night – generally these periods are so cold they destroy spacecraft electronics

Gamers seemed to be more comfortable after playing in a specialist gaming chair compared with a standard office chair

How the Red Planet acquired its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is unknown – they could have formed after something collided with the planet, or started out as asteroids – but now there is a hint of a cometary origin

The light signature from GLASS-z12, one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen, suggests some of its stars have already exploded as supernovae

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My granddaughter recently asked me this riddle, "Where you see one of us you'll see the other. Although we are opposites we are a pair. We are shaken frequently before breakfast, lunch and supper are devoured."


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Three experiments have been selected to fly to the moon alongside NASA’s Artemis III astronauts, all designed to help with future long-term stays on the moon and eventually Mars

An AI-powered robot named Emo watches people’s facial expressions and tries to match them, in an effort to make robots more relatable

Douglas Vakoch of METI International explains how NASA drew on the organisation's expertise at attempting to contact extraterrestrial intelligence to help craft a message to Europa