Jen Mills

Jen Mills | Senior News Reporter

Jen specialises in Science and Tech. Her reporting has taken her from Antarctica to the sewers of London, and above the city too in a doorless helicopter.

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What is DeepSeek? The 'cheaky sneak' chatbot panicking billionaires, in its own words Shutterstock

What is DeepSeek? The 'cheeky sneak' chatbot panicking billionaires, in its own words

Channel: Tech Tech January 28, 2025 By Jen Mills
WhatsApp's green and white logo on a smartphone screen.

Major WhatsApp change could finally be coming for Apple users - over a year after Android

Channel: Tech Tech January 27, 2025 By Jen Mills
ANKARA, TURKIYE - JANUARY 27: DeepSeek logo is seen on a mobile screen in Ankara, Turkiye on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Chinese tech breakthrough costing £1,000,000,000,000 is 'wake up call', Trump says

Channel: Tech Tech January 28, 2025 By Jen Mills
Urgent hunt for schoolgirl missing from North LondonOlivia Prowse

Girl, 15, who went missing in north London found safe and well

Channel: UK UK January 28, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
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Every planet will align in a rare parade next month - here's how to see it

Channel: Tech Tech January 28, 2025 By Josh Milton
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Every planet will align in a rare parade this month - here's how to see it

Channel: Tech Tech February 26, 2025 By Josh Milton

Is Stephen Hawking's eerie warning on the future already coming true?

Channel: Tech Tech January 27, 2025 By Jen Mills
John Lewis using AI to scan customers faces if they try to buy knives online

Major retailer will start scanning your face if you buy knives online

Channel: Tech Tech January 22, 2025 By Jen Mills
ian Airlie is pictured smiling and sitting next to a riverbank

Man dies after being pushed down escalator at Waterloo Station

Channel: UK UK January 22, 2025 By Brooke Davies
Play Video Angolan health workers treat, 05 April 2005, a 22-year-old woman, a new suspected case of the Marburg haemorrhagic fever in a clinic in Cacuaco township, outside Luanda, where the Ebola-like virus s killed at least 155 people. Angolan health workers in a slum outside Luanda were treating a new suspected case of the Marburg virus on Tuesday as a senior UN official warned that the outbreak of the Ebola-like epidemic was not yet under control. Nurses at a clinic in the township of Cacuaco, some 18 kilometers (11 miles) north of the capital, were scrambling to help the 22-year-old woman who they feared may be the latest casualty of the haemorrhagic fever which has so far claimed 155 lives in the biggest outbreak ever of the disease. AFP PHOTO/FLORENCE PANOUSSIAN (Photo by Florence PANOUSSIAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FLORENCE PANOUSSIAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly Marburg virus found in Tanzania - why is it so fatal?

Channel: Tech Tech January 21, 2025 By Jen Mills
Play Video Illustration of Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in a line

Six planets will align in rare parade tonight - here's the best way to see spectacle

Channel: Tech Tech January 26, 2025 By Josh Milton
FILE - This image made from a NASA live stream shows NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (NASA via AP, File)

Space expert reveals dangers Nasa's stranded astronauts can expect on rare spacewalk

Channel: Tech Tech January 21, 2025 By Jen Mills
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ben Perry/Shutterstock (15077619s) People walk to work in the rain on the first Monday of the New Year Seasonal weather, London, UK - 06 Jan 2025

First storm of 2025 named by Met Office bringing strong winds to UK this weekend

Channel: UK UK January 21, 2025 By Jen Mills

Top scientist gives his verdict on if aliens are real

Channel: Tech Tech January 20, 2025 By Jen Mills

Sad reason penguins get divorced (but may regret it later)

Channel: Tech Tech January 20, 2025 By Jen Mills
A sunny autumn day at Durdle Door

From fossils to fish and chips, why the Jurassic Coast is perfect to explore with friends

Channel: Travel Travel January 19, 2025 By Jen Mills
Left; Jess Michaels, who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein in 1991 Right; Screenshot from Callisto Vault

‘I was raped by Jeffrey Epstein - this tech could have been a gamechanger’

Channel: Tech Tech January 18, 2025 By Jen Mills
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is stacked as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SpaceX launches Starship rocket tonight but can it catch it with 'chopsticks' again?

Channel: Tech Tech January 15, 2025 By Jen Mills
A new species of giant sea bugs has been named after Star Wars??? terrifying villain Darth Vader. Giant isopods of the genus Bathynomus, which can reach more than 30 cm in length, are known as b??? bi???n or ???sea bugs??? in Vietnam. For the first time, one such species was described from Vietnamese waters and named Bathynomus vaderi. The name ???vaderi??? is inspired by the appearance of its head, which closely resembles the distinctive and iconic helmet of Darth Vader, the most famous Sith Lord of Star Wars. Bathynomus vaderi belongs to a group known as ???supergiants,??? reaching lengths of 32.5 cm and weighing over a kilogram. So far, this new species has only been found near the Spratly Islands in Vietnam, but further research will probably confirm its presence in other parts of the South China Sea. Giant isopods like Bathynomus vaderi have become an expensive delicacy in Vietnam. Until 2017, local fishermen only sold them as a bycatch product for low prices, but in recent years the media has drawn public attention to this unusual seafood. Some go as far as claiming it???s more delicious than lobster, the ???king of seafood???. These animals have been commercially fished by trawlers operating in various deep-water parts of Bi???n ????ng ( East Sea, Vietnamese part of the South China Sea) and offshore of provinces in south-central coastal of Vietnam. Over the last five years, it has become common to see them sold alive in some seafood markets in Hanoi, H??? Ch?? Minh City, and ???? N???ng City. Some outlets and restaurants even advertise the sale of these ???sea bugs??? online on various social media platforms, including how best to cook them! In March 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased four giant isopod individuals from Quy Nh??n City and sent two of them to Peter Ng from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in the National University of Singapore for identification. Peter Ng has a very active crustacean laboratory in Singapore and has worked on the deep-sea fauna from many parts of Asia. He subsequently co-opted Conni M. Sidabalok from the National Research and Innovation Agency Indonesia, who had described Bathynomus from southern Java with him. Together with Nguyen Thanh Son from the Vietnam National University, who is the resident crustacean researcher there, they studied the specimens. In early 2023, they realised they had specimens of a so far undescribed species. Now, they have published their findings in the open-access journal ZooKeys. The discovery of a species as strange as Bathynomus vaderi in Vietnam highlights just how poorly we understand the deep-sea environment. That a species as large as this could have stayed hidden for so long reminds us just how much work we still need to do to find out what lives in Southeast Asian waters. There is an urgent need to better understand our deep-sea biodiversity as humans increasingly endeavour to exploit this habitat for fisheries, oil and gas, and even minerals. The sustainable fishery of giant isopods just adds to the many challenges we face. And the first step is to know what lives there. Where: Vietnam When: 12 Jan 2025 Credit: Nguyen Thanh Son/ZooKeys /Cover Images **All usages and enquiries, please contact info@cover-images.com - +44 (0)20 3397 3000EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.**

Massive 'bug' as big as a rabbit lives in darkness and is named after Darth Vader

Channel: Tech Tech January 15, 2025 By Jen Mills

The £220,000 'flying car' which makers hope to sell as early as next year

Channel: Tech Tech January 14, 2025 By Jen Mills