Category: 7. SciTech

Fishing crews in California are experimenting with a new fishing method – one designed to help them catch more while keeping marine mammals…

For decades, scientists have viewed the Big Bang as the starting point of space and time. But research into cosmic inflation—the lightning-fast expansion that likely occurred before the Big Bang itself—has complicated that view. If inflation happened first, it may have left behind…

Scientists have successfully grown human teeth in a lab for the first time, according to a new study.

Researchers at King’s College London say…

New research suggests that playing music in the background could help people with ADHD concentrate, especially when it’s fast-paced and engaging. Rather than being a distraction, background music might serve as a subtle mental anchor, offering benefits that support attention during…

Food allergies are on the rise. In the UK, the number of people affected doubled between 2008 and 2018. Globally, it’s estimated some 220 million people experience allergic reactions to certain foods.

For most, this means a few mild symptoms, like an itchy rash or stomach pain. But around a…

For non-runners who don’t appreciate the appeal of a two-hour slog at 6am, know that running (and other forms of cardio) sometimes produces a powerful chemical hit that justifies comparisons with actual narcotics.

The body produces two feel-good substances typically associated with a…

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters”—the adjustable knobs that determine connections among data and get tweaked…

The bitter bracket fungus, Amaropostia stiptica, is probably not available at your local farmer’s market, and if you didn’t get the hint from its name, it’s because it tastes really, really terrible.

In fact, this bracket fungus is so bitter that a team of gustatory physiologists and…

Find it difficult to do several things at once? First, the good news is you’re not alone – most people are terrible at task-switching. Secondly (and in even more good news), psychologists have been studying it for decades to figure out why.

In an ideal world, we’d focus on one task at a…