Event

Strap yourselves in, something really cool is coming. Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration are about to present the world with new information about our galaxy.  The exact contents of the announcement have been closely guarded by the scientific community, but it's being called a "groundbreaking discovery in the Milky Way". You can watch the press conference live right here, and follow our live blog below, to find out what exactly the discovery is at the same time we…

Google I/O 2022 — the company's annual developer conference — is underway, hours after the keynote event was held on Wednesday. During the event, Google announced a wide range of updates and improvements to its products and services, including Google Maps, Android, Google Workspace, Google Meet, YouTube, and the Google Assistant. During the keynote event, the company also announced that Google Translate was adding support for 24 new languages, supported by machine learning. However, users have pointed out that the…

By SciTechDaily.com May 12, 2022An artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Credit: Image courtesy of ESA/AOES MedialabToday (May 12, 2022) at 9:00 a.m. EDT (6:00 a.m. PDT, 15:00 CEST) The European Southern Observatory (<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>ESO</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Created in 1962, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is a 16-nation intergovernmental…

Rare coral bleaching brought on by abnormal sea temperatures is rapidly becoming the norm on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which has just experienced its fourth such event in six years. The mass bleaching is said to have affected more than 90 percent of reefs making up the system, and is the first to ever occur in a La Niña year.Coral bleaching takes place when abnormal sea conditions, such as warmer waters, sees coral expel the algae that live in their tissues, providing them with nutrients and their famously colorful…

Google's Input/Output or I/O event, held on Wednesday night (May 11, IST) saw some of the big launches and key announcements this year. The developer conference of Google majorly featured hardware new, but the Pixel products became the eye-catching parts of the whole event. Google took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting devices. Google Pixel watch Google's smartwatch became the latest…

Update (12 May 2022): The big day of the announcement is today! Make sure to check back to ScienceAlert's home page for a live blog of the press conference at roughly 08:40 am EDT, or 12:40 UTC. Read below on what we think we can expect.Original (29 April 2022): In two weeks' time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way.It's anyone's guess what the announcement will be, but based on what we know of their recent efforts, there's reason to get excited…

Google Input/Output or I/O event for this year will start tonight. The developer meet will be held from May 11 to May 12 in United States. The Google I/O event is free for everyone and the registration for it started from March 22 on the Google I/O page. The US-based tech giant has also started a Google I/O puzzle. The developers meet will be held live with limited audiences and also streamed virtually. The entry is also free. The event will start at 10:30 pm IST and you can watch it…

Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed huge volumes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.  However, there is evidence the climate was already changing before this.Sea surface temperatures had increased by more than 6-8 ℃ in the hundreds of thousands of years leading up to the Siberian outpouring. Temperatures increased again…

Motorola has announced that it will be hosting a launch event on May 10 at 2pm CST / 11:30am IST in China. The Lenovo-owned smartphone brand has not hinted at any of the smartphones which might be unveiled during this upcoming launch event. However, recently, a couple of Motorola handsets have been part of the rumour mill, and these may be the smartphones that the brand launches. One of these handsets is the Moto G82, which has been allegedly doing the rounds at various certification sites. The other is expected to be a…

Almost two years after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Austin, Texas, as the site for a new gigafactory, the facility is all set for a grand opening event on Thursday, April 7. The electric-car maker has started sending out invitations to the bash, dubbed “Cyber Rodeo,” while Musk himself tweeted a graphic announcing it. pic.twitter.com/SXKc1jJwmw &mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2022 Tesla has numerous factories producing batteries and other components for its line of electric vehicles, but the Austin…