Mihir Bhaskar was a self-described “total nerd” in high school. He volunteered at a computer history museum and became obsessed with the hardware and how it all came to be: from abacuses to punch cards, vacuum tubes to personal computers.
“I was really fascinated with the history of…
Ever wondered where in the world your backyard was, within the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea? Now, you can find out for yourself.
A team of Earth scientists has just released an update to Paleolatitude.org, a tool that reveals the shifting latitudes of any given location on Earth over 320…
At a wildlife park in Germany, a young ring-tailed lemur did something bold: It launched itself at an adult ruffed lemur and…
You almost certainly know them: Someone who had to retire from soccer because of a hip problem. A grandmother who can’t lift her arm to comb her hair because of shoulder pain. A coworker who had a knee replacement. So often, the cause is osteoarthritis, a wear and tear of the joints that affects…
It’s clear that artificial intelligence is changing everything, from the way we learn to the way we work. What’s far less clear is how AI’s insinuation into everyday life is changing the way we relate to each other in the non-digital world.
During a talk this week at the Barker Center,…
Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a “critical threshold” and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean.
That said, ‘soon’ is a relative term – it’ll still take a few million years more, but that’s a…
The immune system operates at a scale scientists are only just beginning to be able to see. That new view could change how diseases like cancer are tackled.
Speaking at WIRED Health on April 16, Daniel Davis, an immunologist at Imperial College London, detailed how researchers are using advanced…
NASA’s next mission sounds more like an Andy Weir space…
