Our Start-up of the Week is Access Earth, an Irish firm that has set out to create the world’s largest database of accessibility information to make travelling, shopping and socialising easier for ...

The Earth is awash in data about itself. Every day, satellites capture around 100 terabytes of imagery. But making sense of it isn’t always easy. Seemingly simple questions can be fiendishly complex ...

A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit. In a recent test, NASA showed how ...