The Toyota Yaris Cross range has been facelifted for 2024 and expanded with the luxurious Premiere (Image: Jack Mortimer) What we like Unusual, modern styling Powerful yet economical hybrid powertrain Impressive build quality What we don’t do Limited space for rear passengers Lane assist function a bit too cautious Premiere model pricey compared to competitors … Read more
Extraterrestrial life capable of communicating through space interstellar space might not be able to develop if the home planet doesn’t have plate tectonics, and not even just the right amount of water and dry land. Plate tectonics is absolutely essential if complex life is to evolve, argue Robert Stern of the University of Texas at … Read more
An adult male brown knot spider (Latrodectus geometricus). Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Invasive brown widow spiders on three continents were heavily infected with a single strain of Rhabdochlamydia, a bacterium related to major human and animal pathogens including chlamydia. However, a bite from these spiders will not infect humans with chlamydia. Until now, … Read more
When it comes to ‘wiping out’ cosmic ghosts, only the most extreme objects in the universe are capable of doing so: neutron stars. Scientists have run simulations of collisions between these ultra-dense and dead stars, showing that such powerful events can briefly “capture” neutrinos, also known as “ghost particles.” The discovery could help scientists better … Read more