Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question that you would like an expert to answer, please send it to Curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do some planets have moons and others don’t? – Siddharth, age 6, Texas On Earth, you can look up at night and see the moon shining … Read more
Vision Pro bug dropped spiders into your VR room Ryan Pickren A noted security researcher with a history of finding bugs in Apple products has revealed the most literal of bug exploits: filling Apple Vision Pro users’ virtual workspace with hundreds of lifelike spiders. The exploit, which could be performed remotely and did not require … Read more
Standing proud since the 1960s, they dominate the city skyline against the dramatic hills that surround the city. But uncertainty has hung over the Seven Sisters of Rochdale for almost eight years. It was November 2016 when the Manchester Evening News reported for the first time that the Grade II listed tower blocks of the … Read more
TRAVEL chaos has hit Birmingham Airport again as hundreds of people are forced to queue outside “like cattle” after a week of “total carnage”. A new video taken this morning shows long lines outside the security checkpoint as the sun rises. When the pair posted the first video at 5:18 a.m., there was already a … Read more
More than 450 Londoners have been injured by bus wing mirrors since 2018, Telegraph data analysis shows, calling into question one of Sadiq Khan’s key road safety promises. The number of injuries caused has risen over the past three years despite London’s bus fleet shrinking, suggesting the problem is only getting worse. With his Vision … Read more
When massive stars die, as we understand the universe, it does not happen quietly. When their fuel runs out, they become unstable and are wracked by explosions before ultimately ending their lives in a spectacular supernova. But some massive stars, scientists have discovered, have simply disappeared, leaving no trace in the night sky. Stars that … Read more
Hundreds of motorists have been caught by Cornwall’s only red light camera, new figures reveal. The camera in Truro has captured almost 600 red light jumpers. And we can now reveal that the province is about to get another one. A recent Freedom of Information (FoI) request responded to by Devon and Cornwall Police revealed … Read more
In recent years, astronomers have been investigating an unusual phenomenon: stars seemingly disappearing, leaving few clues as to why they disappeared from our view. In 2019, the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project attempted to catalog how many stars have disappeared from view over the past 70 years and found … Read more