How you can see six planets all at once

Hugh CasswellEast Midlands environment correspondent BBC Mohammed Siddiqui says “Mock COP” allows future leaders to put forward ideas As the COP30 climate change meeting in Brazil comes to a close, students at the University of Leicester have held their own climate talks. Students played the roles of different countries, gave speeches, and “negotiated” with one…

Noise-canceling earbuds have become an everyday essential for a lot of people, whether you’re trying to survive a noisy commute, concentrate in a shared workspace or just carve out a little quiet time. Advances in active noise cancellation and audio processing mean today’s best earbuds do a much better job of cutting through background noise,…

Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new round valuing the company at over $4 billion, four people familiar with the deal said. The company raised approximately $250 million, two of the people said. Major investors in the round are Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, according to…

“I’m pleased to report to you that Apple’s back on track.” It was May of 1998, and Steve Jobs was about 10 months into his second stint leading the company he’d cofounded more than two decades earlier. (It was also a bit more than a decade after that company forced him out.) Jobs took the…

Bringing material from Mars back to Earth has long been an ambition of space scientists. The Nasa Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, has been carefully collecting samples on Mars and storing them in canisters. But a second Nasa/ESA mission, called Mars Sample Return, that would have picked up and returned these…