Category: 7. SciTech

Can you slip into a more relaxed state and sharpen your focus by simply listening to a couple of slightly different tones? That’s…

The idea of ‘compassion fatigue’ was first proposed in the context of nurses who spend their working days caring for people, showing them compassion and empathy – and sometimes witnessing them going through traumatic experiences.

There are really two parts to compassion fatigue. There’s…

A giant Pacific octopus named Ghost at a Southern California aquarium is receiving an…

Hillwalkers have a “very exciting” opportunity to find meteorite fragments which scattered over Scotland this summer, researchers have…

If you’ve ever ready anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around us, everything we see and touch, every star and gas cloud and planet, makes up just five per cent of the energy in the Universe.

Of everything else, around 25 per cent is made…

Creative output has traditionally required effort — hours spent staring down the empty page, crumpled drafts tossed in the trash. But through years or decades of dedicated toil, one could achieve mastery and derive meaning from one’s accomplishments. Generative AI is poised to change that…

A new scientific study has provided compelling evidence supporting a long-held belief among Indigenous communities: the destruction of the

While humans typically favour a dominant hand, new research reveals that octopuses, despite lacking a single dominant arm, show a clear…

Octopuses are mostly made up of sucker-studded arms, each one packed with muscles and nerves that enable them to engage with their environment in ways no other invertebrate has mastered.

But how octopuses negotiate their sprawling mass of semi-autonomous limbs remains a mystery. A new study…