A piece of high school genetics, relied on for many sorts of genetic testing, has been found to have exceptions. Although mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is norm | Continue reading
Whenever an artificial intelligence (AI) does something well, we’re simultaneously impressed as we are worried. AlphaGO is a great example of this: a machi | Continue reading
Exciting results from the largest-ever trial assessing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have provided | Continue reading
Recently, there have been a rush of studies revealing how tiny pieces of plastic are making it into the environment, including in the fish and even the sal | Continue reading
At the peak of his cocaine-smuggling career, Colombia’s most notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar built a sweeping estate in the country’s rolling hills for h | Continue reading
A startup company has announced that it hopes to build an orbiting gas station to service other satellites.In an interview with SpaceNews, the Silicon Val | Continue reading
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes described free will (or 'liberty') as 'the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and | Continue reading
A study has found that the most commonly used weed killer in the world may be contributing to the global decline of honey bees and native bees.Published i | Continue reading
For the hundreds of millions of people who live alongside the world's coasts, the scariest sea-level rise scenario is the idea that ice sheets could collap | Continue reading
What is the most important problem in mathematics? David Hilbert thought he knew. On August 8, 1900, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Pa | Continue reading
It's big news, set to shock, amaze, and entertain the world.But unfortunately, it's got nothing to do with extraterrestrial stoners melding with Earth's p | Continue reading
Something fishy went on with a major study about the Mediterranean diet and its health benefits.It’s surprisingly hard to gather strong scientific evidenc | Continue reading
If you look at humans like Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, or Venus Williams (and to a lesser extent, Serena), you might be forgiven for thinking we've reached | Continue reading
Scientists are sharing bad stock photos of their jobs, and they are pretty incredible to behold. A lot of the time it seems like the general public isn't | Continue reading
The destruction wrought by Kilauea’s eruption continues apace, while scientists continue to monitor the ever-evolving volcanic violence. It’s already put o | Continue reading
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a psychopathic AI using images pulled from Reddit. Oh, and they’ve named | Continue reading
Speakers recently flew in from around (or perhaps, across?) the earth for a three-day event held in Birmingham: the UK’s first ever public Flat Earth Conve | Continue reading
The terms and condition for the Boring Company’s new flamethrower – ahem, Not-a-Flamethrower – are anything but. Naturally, the eccentric billionaire (and | Continue reading