A nuclear engineer reacts to a wild hypothetical from XKCD and breaks down what would really happen if all the lightning on Earth struck a single location at once. Using real physics, energy ...

Using artificial solar eclipses, the ESA probes Proba-3 are researching the corona of our home star. Now there is an impressive time-lapse. On September 21st, within five hours, the ESA space probes ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

Cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease. Improving its treatment demands a deeper understanding of individual genetic mutations and how they influence disease progression. However, modelling ...

National AI usage among businesses is growing, with current rates at 18% and projected to hit 22% in six months. Larger firms show higher AI adoption; those with 250+ employees report a 27% usage rate ...