BBC Inside Science

BBC - Sep 24, 2026

How do we measure time accurately and why is the rotation of the Earth causing problems?

Read full article

More News

Sep 24, 2026

Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first

Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.

Sep 24, 2026

Google plans first AI chip test in space under project Suncatcher

Google plans first AI chip test in space under project SuncatcherGoogle is reportedly preparing to test AI chips in space next week as part of the first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher-a research effort to explore whether space could accommodate major AI computing infrastructure.The primary...

Sep 24, 2026

Apple Day called off after poor harvest

It is the first time the event has been cancelled in 24 years.

Sep 24, 2026

Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content

The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays," Manifold Security's Head of Research, Ax Sharma, said. "Unlike 'example[.]com,' third-party[.]com

Sep 24, 2026

Mars Rover reveals hot groundwater once flowed at Jezero

Mars Rover reveals hot groundwater once flowed at JezeroYou'd expect a crater once filled with an ancient lake to tell a fairly straightforward story. Instead, NASA's Perseverance rover has detected traces of the existence of at least three different events of water-rock interaction on the Margin...

Sep 24, 2026

Scientists create an atomic clock so precise it could REDEFINE the second

Scientists have built the world's most accurate atomic clock - and it's so precise it could redefine the second.

Sep 24, 2026

Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Australian health department site

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about an agent at the company breaching the commonwealth's health department website in June. Albanese told reporters in New York City, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, that the agent gained access to the Medicare Statistics Reporting...

Sep 24, 2026

Your brain 'changes gear' TWICE in your life - once at age 24, and again at 60, study finds

Your brain 'changes gear' twice in your lifetime, according to the results of a massive new study.

Sep 24, 2026

Meta takes on Tamagotchi! Muse Charm gadget lets you use AI without your phone or computer

The futuristic device, called Muse Charm, was announced by Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, at the end of the Meta Connect event last night.

Sep 24, 2026

Hacked Ukrainian Sites Serve Fake Cloudflare ClickFix Lures for Psychedelic Stealer

An active ClickFix campaign has been observed compromising legitimate Ukrainian business websites to inject bogus Cloudflare verification pages and trick victims into downloading a previously undocumented information stealer called Psychedelic. "When a visitor interacts with the page, the lure copies a Windows Installer command to the clipboard and instructs the visitor to paste it into the

Sep 24, 2026

A Second Judge Strikes Down New York’s Climate ‘Superfund’ Law

A federal judge ruled that the new law, which would force fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion to help cover the costs of climate change, was unconstitutional.

Recommended