Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Narcissism appears to have reached pandemic proportions. Just the other day, my nine-year-old announced that kids are branding each other narcissists in the playground. And why wouldn’t children adopt the label? It’s become fashionable for…

What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net?

It’s not a single neural network, but rather an ensemble of computer programs that can help scientists make new discoveries. My group has already developed algorithms that can help…

Perhaps the most surprising scientific discovery of the last decade is that the Universe is teeming with black holes.

They’ve been detected in a surprising variety of sizes: some with masses only a bit larger than the Sun, others that are…

Scientists in China have built a device capable of reading letters only millimeters wide from over a kilometer away. The laser, which could very well become an active spy tool, has achieved this impressive feat in real-world urban…

Inventors may hope that their creations will bring fame and fortune, but sometimes, they just lead to an untimely death. Here are four of the oddest cases of inventors killed by their own inventions…

Karel Soucek

Czech stuntman Karel Soucek…

In the thin air of Nepal’s highlands, scientists are witnessing humans evolving in real time as they adapt to one of Earth’s harshest environments.

Above 3,500 meters (around 11,500 feet), oxygen levels drop significantly. Most…

We’ve all seen the adverts. ‘This one, simple trick will blitz the blubber around your belly’; ‘Turn your body into a furnace and burn off your spare tyre with this diet hack’; ‘Get Adonis abs by doing this five-minute workout’. But…

A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, could’ve added to the length of two plague pandemics, including the pandemic that started with the “Black Death.”

“Ours is one of…

The first photos of your newborn might capture their sweet baby blues peeking out…

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today’s giraffes.

“They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger,” says paleontologist Rachel Narducci from the…