Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over computers in its ability to transfer skills and learn across tasks. A new study reveals how we likely do this.

Led by a team…

The discovery of a Viking-age burial in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery.

The astonishingly well-preserved grave yielded a woman who was buried with scallop shells neatly and deliberately placed near…

Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention – a marker of how willing people are to start new ventures – remain stagnant.

But what if the secrets to entrepreneurial success lie not in textbooks but…

On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was ravaged by jaundice, his limbs and abdomen swollen, and every breath a…

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn’t in our solar system—it was orbiting another star. We call this an…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal…

Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor.

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…