Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The use of antibiotics in livestock farming has transformed the industry over recent decades, fuelling productivity gains as agriculture races to keep up with a growing global population and rising demand for animal-source foods.

These drugs,…

Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.

While the difference in cognitive abilities was a…

In 1919, a student at the University of Cambridge had an extra ticket to a lecture being given by an astronomer who had just returned from a trip off the west coast of Africa where he observed the stars and a solar eclipse.

Cecilia…

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by

The most advanced fighter jets in the world are known as “fifth generation”. They contain…

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity and drinking water in your home. When you go to the bathroom and flush the water, the sewage goes into a huge…

A brain implant has restored speech in a woman with severe paralysis, a breakthrough advance…

Scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, have unveiled ambitious…

If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes.

A new study suggests instead of releasing waste, the first anal orifice was an exit hatch for male sex cells which was given a new…

What if the universe isn’t as spontaneous as it seems? What if the galaxies, the laws of physics—even you—are all running on code? It’s a theory that’s captivated scientists and sci-fi fans alike. And now, a physicist says he…