Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Antimatter particles are almost identical to their normal matter counterparts, except they carry the opposite charge and momentum.

Though it’s an extremely rare substance, physicists routinely generate antiparticles in particle accelerators….

Today’s machine learning technology has been shown to visualise our dreams. But what if we wished to go further and actually share our dreams?

At present, while we can interpret brain signals and roughly figure out imagined scenes and high-level…

Chimpanzees are a musical lot, and percussion is an important part of their repertoire. But one particular behavior continues to fascinate zoologists: every so often, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are caught on camera, yelling and throwing…

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find…

A construction worker has unearthed a 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex in the war-torn…

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.

A dull bracelet and a rusted hollow hemisphere decorated with gold are forged, researchers have found, not…

Planet Earth is currently home to around 8.2 billion living human bodies. Virtually every one of which, when you think about it, is basically a deconstructed meatball in some variation of Birkenstocks and a North Face jacket.

You didn’t think…

Humans were letting the bed bugs bite long before beds existed, and while they do live on other species, we’re the main reason this notorious parasite is still going strong.

In fact, bed bugs might have been the first pest to plague our cities…

It’s no secret that Earth is doomed. Sure, there’s the threat of climate change and the fact that sea levels are rising around the world. But that’s not what we’re talking about. Instead, our planet’s impending doom is…

I am a geneticist, which, last time I checked, is a perfectly upstanding profession. I mean my mother-in-law still speaks to me, so that must be a good thing, right?

And yet, when I reveal that I study the genetics of body weight and that your…