Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Many of us will have tried to trim our waistlines by counting calories and hitting the gym, but only for all our efforts to be met with little to no success. So what’s going wrong?

Well, losing weight has surprisingly little to do with how much…

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and NASA announced the launch of Surya, a foundation model for the sun. Having been trained on large datasets of solar activity, this AI…

In a world where sports are dominated by youth and speed, some athletes in their late 30s and even 40s are not just keeping up – they are thriving.

Novak Djokovic is still outlasting opponents nearly half his age on tennis’s biggest stages.

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…

Ice baths, chilli-laced meals, cryotherapy chambers – if you listen to influencers, these are the keys to unlocking a healthier life. 

The goal? Activating brown fat. Stimulating this so-called ‘good fat’ has become social media’s latest…

Caffeine has been getting a bad rap recently. Whether it’s highly caffeinated energy drinks making it difficult for kids to concentrate in class, or too many teas and coffees during the day leaving us unable to sleep at night, caffeine, in many…

Deep beneath the waves of the North Sea, the seafloor is behaving in an unexpected way.

There, scientists have discovered hundreds of vast sand mounds, some on the scale of several kilometers across, that, according to a release from the…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and…