Video shows Perseverance rover’s dramatic Mars landing
But first Perseverance needs to find the right place to put this aircraft down to conduct its experiments. Mission planners...
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Are streaming algorithms really damaging film?
Algorithms, he says, are reducing everything to "subject matter or genre", rendering any kind of curation, and understanding of artistic...
Key questions about Nasa’s next Mars rover
By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News websiteimage copyrightNASA / JPL-CaltechOn Thursday, Nasa's Perseverance rover landed successfully on Mars after a...
The dentist who helped a koala to walk
A koala - nicknamed Triumph - was born without a foot, meaning he had difficulty walking and climbing freely.His vet...
Smart materials: From tiny robots to colour-swapping clothes
"This is a really important century for us. We are going from an inanimate view of materials, where we make...
AI used to ‘predict the next coronavirus’
The Asian palm civet and greater horseshoe bat, for example, were predicted to be host to 32 and 68 different...
Computer says go: Taking orders from an AI boss
However, one provider, CallMinder, tells the BBC that because its call centre monitoring system can "analyse 100% of interactions", human...
Nasa Mars rover: Confidence high as mission heads for tricky landing
It was difficult enough getting the Perseverance rover ready to leave Earth last year in the face of a global...
Where are Cape Town’s great white sharks?
For years, one of South Africa’s great tourist attractions has been the opportunity to see, up close, one of the...
Science Photographer of the Year winners revealed
image copyrightSue Floodimage captionOn Thin Ice by Sue FloodThe Royal Photographic Society has revealed the winners of its Science Photographer...
The global race to produce hydrogen offshore
Jon Gluyas, Ørsted/Ikon chair in geoenergy, carbon capture and storage at Durham University, adds that the real question is whether...
Ozone layer ‘rescued’ from CFC damage
The scientists stressed that the scale of this illegal production may never be revealed in full. But this combination -...
Pablo Escobar: Why scientists want to kill Colombia’s hippos
"It is obvious that we feel sorry for these animals, but as scientists we need to be honest," Colombian biologist...
Artemis: Biden administration backs US Moon shot
"I'm very excited about it now - to tell my daughter all about it," Ms Psaki said, adding: "Through the...
Denmark to build ‘first energy island’ in North Sea
"This is gigantic," Prof Ostergaard told the BBC. "It's the next big step for the Danish wind turbine industry. We...
Images reveal length of Moon golf shot
This image consists of six photographs taken from the Lunar Module, enhanced and stitched into a single panorama to show...
Government ‘painfully slow’ on protecting environment
Boris Johnson has made several speeches recently on the environment, but the committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Meg Hillier, told the...
Traffic noise impairs songbirds’ abilities
Dr Sophie Mowles from Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridgeshire, added that humans were "continually changing the characteristics of environments, including...
