Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Wheat can be vulnerable to diseases that may increase as the Earth warms. A team of scientists across five continents may have found a way to help wheat fight back, according to two papers published in the journal Science.

“Climate change is…

UK scientists have won a £150,000 prize for creating a device inspired by a microwave -…

It probably feels obvious that having a close friend can influence your well-being. But do the groups that you’re a part of also affect your well-being? For example, does the culture of your work colleagues influence your productivity?

It may…

Salt makes almost everything taste better — we add it while cooking to enhance the flavor of other ingredients, sprinkle some into baking to balance out sweetness, and enjoy it in our favorite snacks, like chips, pretzels, and microwave…

A rare partial solar eclipse will rise over parts of North America and Europe on Saturday 29 March 2025, offering early risers a dramatic display – including a ‘double sunrise’.

“From wherever you see the eclipse, it will be a wonderful…

Generative AI (Gen AI) tools like ChatGPT have become an ever-present part of many people’s personal and working lives. And whether they are causing more harm than good to our cognitive skills or problem solving is a growing concern. Experts…

The age of the Universe can be derived by measuring its current rate of expansion and then extrapolating backwards. In practice, however, we also have to know how that expansion rate may have changed through time, and this is dictated by the…

Your birthday might tell you how many years you’ve been alive, but it doesn’t reveal how well your body is holding up. Now, scientists in Japan have developed an AI biological age test that can do exactly that, using nothing more…

Sometimes evolution produces an organism so weird and wonderfully different to anything that we know of that scientists are stumped. Enter the Tully monster, a soft-bodied sea creature that swam in the muddy estuaries of what’s now Illinois,…

It’s easy to assume people with obesity eat more because they simply love food more. However, new research suggests the opposite. In fact, the more weight you gain, the less pleasure your brain actually gets from food. This has to do…