Stuart McDill

1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Will Dunham |Stuart McDill

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on alien planet Planet K2-18 b is 8.6 times the mass of Earth and located 124 light-years away 17 April 2025 - 16:00 By WILL DUNHAM and Stuart McDill In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological...

1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Will Dunham |Stuart McDill

17 April 2025 - 16:00 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. An illustration shows a hycean world — an exoplanet with a liquid water ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere — orbiting a red dwarf star. Based on observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, the exoplanet K2-18 b might fit in this category. This illustration was obtained by Reuters on April 16 2025.

Jun 19, 2024 | flipboard.com | Stuart McDill

Jun 19, 2024 | reuters.com | Stuart McDill

BRIGHTON, England, June 19 (Reuters) - When voters go to the polls in one English town next month they will get the chance to elect what is being billed as the world's first AI lawmaker. Businessman Steve Endacott is among hundreds of candidates standing to become a member of parliament at Britain's July 4 national election - except unlike the others, the face on his campaign leaflet is not the 59-year-old, but an AI generated avatar.

Jun 18, 2024 | haaretz.com | Stuart McDill