Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Ever since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when homemade sourdough starters began bubbling on kitchen counters across the world, this tangy, chewy bread has taken on near-mythic status. As Taylor Swift would attest: sourdough isn’t…

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) models are behemoths. They run on billions of parameters, trained on oceans of data, all hosted in energy-hungry server farms. 

But does it have to be this way? Apparently not. One of the most promising new…

Key Takeaways on if a Sun Is a Star or a Planet

• Is a sun a star or a planet? Current definitions define a star as a body that generates its own energy. While humans have relied on the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, it’s only in the last…

There’s an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible. Don’t pay attention to what happened in the last round.

However, that’s easier said than done.

To find out how brains…

Prolonged use of the common sleep supplement melatonin could be linked to hospitalisation for…

As someone who routinely “hides” things from myself—car keys, receipts, even…

Bacteria that lurk in food can make that food delicious or deadly. Why is it that some bacteria in food are safe and even beneficial, while others are harmful and can cause illness?

“Over millions of years, bacteria have evolved into different…