By Chloe Simone, Ava Rosenthal and Megu Mizuno It starts with a night filled with booms of thunder, with lightning shocking the night sky and sheets of rain pouring down. Then, somehow, we are plunged into a scorching midday heat of 38 degrees. Last week’s temperature was pushing 40 degrees, threatening to break the record […]
Category Archives: Science & Tech
Space X Launches Groundbreaking ‘Starship’ Rocket
By Hana Nakatani American company Space X launched the latest and the largest rocket “Starship” on the 22nd May. The launch was successful and if this launch becomes practical, it will more than quadruple the space transport capacity compared to the current main rocket, accelerating the company’s growth strategy. The Starship rocket launched from Starbase, […]
Hantavirus Cruise Outbreak Causes Global Concern
By Melita Jose Where does the hantavirus originate? According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first known cases of hantavirus infection were recorded among United Nations troops during the Korean War from (1951-1954). The virus was officially identified in 1978 by Ho-Wang Lee, who isolated it from striped field mice near the Hantan River in South […]
‘The Oscars of Science’: How the Breakthrough Prize is Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
By Ava Rosenthal Right now, we are living in a golden age of science, with technology rapidly advancing, astonishing innovations in medicine such as gene editing, and breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and cosmology. The recent Artemis II aims to send humans farther from Earth than they have travelled in decades. However, the scientists who further […]
Artemis II Mission Opens a New Chapter of Space Exploration
By Hana Nakatani On April 1st, the Artemis II mission was launched after more than half a century of technological development. Four NASA astronauts departed from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the Orion capsule. I travelled to Houston to witness this historic moment. At the Johnson Space Center, the atmosphere felt like a […]
The UK’s First Remote Robotic Surgery
By Ruth Perkins A historic medical moment On the 4th of March, Paul Buxton became the UK’s first patient of remote robot telesurgery. He was treated in St Bernard’s Hospital in Gibraltar by world-leading urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta, who performed the surgery through a robot at The London Clinic, 2,400 km away. Mr Buxton […]
Is the Largest Iceberg on Earth Facing Its End?
By Sze Wing Ng History The A23a iceberg is famously known as the largest iceberg in the world, proven by visible data and thermal imagery. It has a surface area of 3,500 square kilometres, twice the size of Greater London, and reaches 40 metres above sea level. Its history dates back around 40 years to […]
Pen to Processor: How AI is changing books
By Esinam Asima The rise of Ai books poses an issue for creativity and society As AI begins writing stories, what happens to human creativity? “Predictable, generic, and, frankly, boring” – this is how the Greenleaf Book Group described books written by AI. With the rise of artificial intelligence and its rapid implementation across almost […]
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Hits Jamaica
By Robyn Quinn What happened in Jamaica? On the afternoon of 28 October 2025, Jamaica was struck by Hurricane Melissa, a catastrophic Category 5 storm that devastated the island’s southwest with winds reaching 160 miles per hour. The storm had formed off the coast of West Africa, intensifying from a tropical storm into a Category […]
ChatGPT Two Years On: What Do Students and Teachers Think About AI Now?
By Lucia McQuillan-Puccetti and Natalie Hartley The Veritas Times team has recently gathered updated new teacher and student opinions on the AI chatbot, ChatGPT, following the last survey conducted in July 2023 (link to previous article). Student Results and Opinions from Survey Since the previous poll, where around 80% of students had heard of ChatGPT, […]