Popular science communicator and creator of the Veritasium YouTube channel Derek Muller and UCLA professor of physics Alexander Kusenko have a $10,000 bet | Continue reading
Although most can’t be seen by the naked eye, the Earth is surrounded by a spinning field of over 12,000 orbiting satellites. Performing tasks from weather | Continue reading
Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the next day? If so, you may have wondered | Continue reading
The way we imagine first contact with an alien species has evolved somewhat over the decades. Sci-fi usually still goes with the classic trope of a ship ar | Continue reading
An autonomous drone may have hunted down and attacked humans without input from human commanders, a recent UN report has revealed. As well as being the fir | Continue reading
Julian Melchiorri, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, claims to have developed a silk leaf that could create oxygen for space travel as well as make t | Continue reading
There is nothing quite like a tricky math puzzle to blow some of the cobwebs out of our heads. This one designed by Twitter user @panbtc manages to combine | Continue reading
Particle accelerators are machines that propel charged particles at incredible speeds, generally to collide with other particles. It's highly advisable tha | Continue reading
It's perfectly feasible that in the 1980s a major diplomatic incident between nuclear superpowers could have been triggered by fish farts. In fact, Russia | Continue reading
On March 18, 1944, a Finnish ski patrol troop was behind Russian lines when they were ambushed. They managed to escape during the ensuing firefight, but th | Continue reading
You have probably heard of the Fermi Paradox, but if you haven't, here it is in a nutshell: Given the high probability that alien life exists out there in | Continue reading
There is a flurry of excitement coming from CERN. LHCb, one of the four experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has seen something that violates the | Continue reading
Incredibly, this image above doesn’t show a starry sky. Instead, every white dot is a supermassive black hole at the core of a different galaxy. This extra | Continue reading
A man was hospitalized after injecting himself with a 'tea' he'd made from magic mushrooms and the fungus began to grow in his veins.In a case report publ | Continue reading
The pandemic has seen an absolute boom in conspiracy theories, from the benign (a conspiracy involving Captain America turned out to be explained by spaghe | Continue reading
During what was an unremarkable summer’s morning, a 67-year-old man had a modern-day eureka moment, allowing him to suddenly crack a probability problem th | Continue reading
In the ant-eat-ant world of Latin American, scientists have found the first known example of biomineral body armor in a species of insect.The armor, a sup | Continue reading
They say that death and taxes are the only certainties in life, and while we’re still waiting for a scientific solution to the latter of these problems, re | Continue reading
Phrases such as “pecking order,” “top dog” and “leader of the pack” are often used to describe the social order in human society, but they have real signif | Continue reading
In 1893, Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen described what must have been a frightening phenomenon under the circumstances. His ship became trapped in the | Continue reading
Technology and sports have a fairly mixed relationship already. Log on to Twitter during a soccer match (or football as it's properly known*) and as well a | Continue reading
Technology and sports have a fairly mixed relationship already. Log on to Twitter during a soccer match (or football as it's properly known*) and as well a | Continue reading
The great Maya city of Tikal transported zeolites for water filtration thousands of years before other cultures learned or adopted the idea, archaeologists | Continue reading
There’s an old cliché in the United States that people who live in the mountains are cut from a different cloth. So the theory goes, “hill people” live in | Continue reading
No, you’re not watching Pacific Rim or an insane anime – this is an actual 18-meter (60-foot) robot taking its first steps (at least, sort of).Designed af | Continue reading
Across the world urban skies have cleared as nations have gone into lockdown due to the pandemic, only to rise again in those countries moving towards busi | Continue reading
A sharp increase in radioactive isotopes have been reported in parts of Scandinavia. The levels recorded are far below anything thought to pose a threat to | Continue reading
Rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage are just a few of the comparisons commonly named to describe the odor of durian, the world’s stinkiest fruit. Nat | Continue reading
There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around about Covid-19. We've seen people claim there was a patent filed for the coronavirus in 2015 by the Bil | Continue reading
This is Hart Island, the site where New York City will bury “unclaimed” victims of COVID-19 as the city’s daily death rate from the outbreak continues to s | Continue reading
The kinetic energy of falling water has been turned into electricity since the 1870s. Current hydropower systems depend, however, on rain falling at high a | Continue reading
The astronomical community is frantically scrambling to discover the source of a burst of gravitational waves that don't look like anything they have seen | Continue reading
Astronomers have just unveiled an incredible new tool to answer some of the most complex questions about how galaxies form. The team used Illustris TNG50 – | Continue reading
We know that our understanding of reality is pretty biased. Our senses, our cultures, and our knowledge shape how we see the world. And if you think that s | Continue reading
A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. How did this unlikely scenario come around, you're no doubt asking? Well, f | Continue reading
From Athena’s cap of invisibility to H.G. Wells and Harry Potter, the notion of making oneself invisible has always tickled human fantasy. Incredibly, tech | Continue reading
In 2011, an otherwise healthy man in the US injured his thumb so severely he required antibiotics. Doctors prescribed oral cephalexin, a common antibiotic | Continue reading
Tropical forests are being exposed to unprecedented environmental change, with huge knock-on effects. In the past decade, the carbon absorbed annually by t | Continue reading
All of our science is limited to a degree, so it often happens that we encounter 'impossible' objects and events that go beyond what we know about the univ | Continue reading
Applying the laws of quantum mechanics to computing has the potential to solve problems we wouldn’t even know how to tackle with current devices, but befor | Continue reading
A 24-year-old PhD candidate was crowned Miss Virginia 2019 after she chucked aside pageant norms and instead donned a lab coat and safety glasses to perfor | Continue reading
There’s a lot of debate on how to best fight against the disinformation spread by anti-vaxx or 'vaccine hesitant' organizations. Is it best to fight it wit | Continue reading
If you take a look at the life of freshwater shrimp in the sleepy English countryside, you’ll find enough drugs to keep a funk band on tour very happy.A n | Continue reading
A conversation between a passenger and an airline has gone viral, largely because people find it intensely creepy.MacKenzie Fegan went to the airport last | Continue reading
The image of an astronaut is somewhere between an Action Man and a short-back-and-sides, air force-trained, engineering school prodigy.But then, there is | Continue reading
In a case that has been highlighted by Dr Bernard on YouTube, a student with poor knowledge of hygiene ended up dying in his sleep after eating 5-day-old p | Continue reading
Lion prides living along the Skeleton Coast of Namibia – a hyper-arid coastline once called 'The Gates of Hell' by Portuguese sailors – have developed an u | Continue reading
Software engineers at Google have been analyzing the 'dreams' of their computers. And it turns out that androids do dream of electric sheep. | Continue reading