Category: 7. SciTech

Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The starting position of the pinball represents the data on the tape being fed into the Turing machine. Crucially (and unrealistically), the player must be able to adjust the ball’s starting location with…

We’ve known for decades that our closest large galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), is heading toward our galaxy, the Milky Way, at around 120km per second (approx 75 miles per second).

But until recently, astronomers were unsure whether it would score a direct hit, a near miss or…

Male roundworms are worse at learning from experience than their mates, according to a new study, often to the point of embracing life-threatening risks.

Curiously, this lack of good judgment seems to settle down once they’ve had sex, suggesting an urge to reproduce dominates the male worm’s…

A U.S. defense project meant to track underground explosions just made a surprising discovery: it can also detect rockets falling from space. While studying shockwaves rippling through the atmosphere, researchers working on DARPA’s AtmoSense project stumbled into what might be the…

It’s been a go-to for headaches, fevers, and sore muscles for over a century. But new research suggests that aspirin—the everyday over-the-counter medication sitting in your cabinet—might also have another, far more unexpected use as an anti-cancer drug.

Scientists have been…

Archaeologists digging under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have found signs of an ancient garden that align with biblical…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The warming spring air is a welcome relief from the bitterly cold winter across much of the US, but millions of seasonal allergy sufferers are getting buried under a pollen tsunami, with sneezing, headaches,…

Uniformed guards with holstered guns stand at the entrance and watch you lumber past. Ahead lies a wasteland of barren metal gantries, dormant chimney stacks and abandoned equipment.

You trudge towards the ruins of a large, derelict red-brick building. Your white hazmat suit and heavy…

Uniformed guards with holstered guns stand at the entrance and watch you lumber past. Ahead lies a wasteland of barren metal gantries, dormant chimney stacks and abandoned equipment.

You trudge towards the ruins of a large, derelict red-brick building. Your white hazmat suit and heavy…

It was the morning of 24 September 2023 when a returning space capsule appeared in the skies over the US Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Floating down to Earth under a parachute was a single canister containing 121g (4.3oz) of material from the surface of an asteroid…