Category: 9. Sci/Tech

“Why have my fingers gone all pruney?” It’s a question that has puzzled children at bath time, teens at swimming lessons, and adults after long hot…

Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The starting position of the pinball represents the data on the tape being fed into the Turing machine. Crucially (and unrealistically), the player must be able to…

We’ve known for decades that our closest large galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), is heading toward our galaxy, the Milky Way, at around 120km per second (approx 75 miles per second).

But until recently, astronomers were unsure…

Male roundworms are worse at learning from experience than their mates, according to a new study, often to the point of embracing life-threatening risks.

Curiously, this lack of good judgment seems to settle down once they’ve had sex,…

A U.S. defense project meant to track underground explosions just made a surprising discovery: it can also detect rockets falling from space. While studying shockwaves rippling through the atmosphere, researchers working on DARPA’s…

It’s been a go-to for headaches, fevers, and sore muscles for over a century. But new research suggests that aspirin—the everyday over-the-counter medication sitting in your cabinet—might also have another, far more unexpected use…

When it comes to infant nutrition, parents are flooded with information on what’s safe and what’s not. However, one piece of advice that often catches new caregivers off guard is the strict guideline against giving babies water, especially during…

Archaeologists digging under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have found signs…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The warming spring air is a welcome relief from the bitterly cold winter across much of the US, but millions of seasonal allergy sufferers are getting buried…

Uniformed guards with holstered guns stand at the entrance and watch you lumber past. Ahead lies a wasteland of barren metal gantries, dormant chimney stacks and abandoned equipment.

You trudge towards the ruins of a large, derelict red-brick…