Category: 7. SciTech

The end of the universe has always felt like a distant abstraction. But new calculations suggest that our original timeline might have been wildly optimistic. According to a team of Dutch scientists, the universe is dying much faster than anyone thought, and could cease to exist within…

The Oakland Zoo has rescued a baby spider monkey after authorities found her in a drug…

A new AI model can actually recreate your face just by analyzing a few bits of your DNA. Developed by scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Difface was trained on data from nearly 10,000 Han Chinese volunteers.

Each participant provided a full genome sequence and a…

Creative thinking may feel totally original, but a new study suggests that imagination has more to do with your memory than you might think.

A new study suggests that people who remember small, seemingly unimportant details are actually better at coming up with creative ideas.

“This means that…

How we talk about gastrointestinal symptoms is changing fast. In a few short years, young TikTokers have helped turn tummy aches,…

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.

Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry…

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers – and a harsh world where not all newborns…

It doesn’t matter whether you get eight hours of sleep or six and a half – as long as that’s normal for where you live. At least, that’s according to a new study by researchers at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, in Canada.

The paper argues that cultural…

Astroforensics

When the inevitable happens and an astronaut is killed in space, astroforensics teams will be called in to find the killer. But how do you investigate a murder when your crime scene lacks gravity?

Yo-yo diets

The reason diets fail so often might be because our fat cells have a…