Space Hottest planet is hotter than some stars A 'year' on WASP-33b lasts just 29 hours Astronomers have found the hottest planet yet, a gas giant with a temperature of nearly 3200 °C, which is hotter than some stars. A collaboration called the Super Wide Angle Search for Planets (SuperWASP) announced hints of the planet's existence in 2006. The group had observed periodic … 51¶¯Âþ
The legacy of BSE We have to remain vigilant so we can act at the first sign of an emerging disease IN October 1987, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that a "mystery brain disease" was killing the UK's dairy cows. As more cases emerged, farmers noted how affected animals were apprehensive and hypersensitive to touch or sound. They were uncoordinated … Opinion
Technology I, algorithm: A new dawn for artificial intelligence Intelligent machines must distinguish bombs from earthquakes Artificial intelligence has finally become trustworthy enough to watch over everything from nuclear bombs to premature babies GIVEN the choice between a flesh-and-blood doctor and an artificial intelligence system for diagnosing diseases, Pedro Domingos is willing to stake his life on AI. "I'd trust the machine more than … Features
Visceral curator: Making art out of living tissue Read more: Click here to read a longer version of this story Ten years after co-founding the art and science research laboratory SymbioticA , Oron Catts is co-curating Visceral: The Living Art Experiment at the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He tells Amanda Gefter how both the exhibit and his work challenge our perceptions … CultureLab
Enigma Number 1631 Joe's Pyramid This is Joe's pyramid. Every stone is marked with a different one or two digit positive number. Where a stone rests on two others, its number is the sum of the numbers marked on the two stones on which it rests. What number is X? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender … Regulars
Feedback: The dusky nightjar sings jazz The dusky nightjar sings jazz IN PREPARATION for a trip to the tropics, Tadeusz Kawecki downloaded several dozen recordings of bird calls onto his Nokia cellphone. To his surprise, the phone sorted them into musical genres. The song of the pied puffbird was classified as belonging to "oldies", the laughing falcon to "pop" and the … Regulars