Category: 7. SciTech

Stardust’s prospective clients seem to be governments: As countries consider geoengineering, Stardust could be poised to sell them tools to meet those goals, several experts said. In an emailed answer to questions about its business model, Yedvab described the company’s approach as…

For centuries, scientists believed that only the elite were buried in pyramids. But a surprising recent discovery of ancient skeletons has thrown that idea into question. 

In a new study, researchers analysed the remains of people buried in Tombos, an archaeological site located in modern-day…

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of Cambridge challenges that idea, revealing a far more complex and surprising origin story for…

ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, seemingly kicking off the age of AI. We’ve seen rapid advancements since then, with AI becoming the central focus of every big tech announcement, whether hardware or software.

At the same time, there’s been a growing debate about the safety of AI….

British Summer Time (BST) is back, which means the clocks are about to spring forward by one hour. But when exactly does the change happen in the UK in 2025 – and what’s the point of shifting the time around twice a year?

When do the clocks change in 2025?

In the UK, the clocks will jump…

Cats are many things; enigmatic, aloof, contrary and yes, they are also liquid. Pour a liquid into a container. It changes its shape to fill all the available space, before spilling over the top. Pour a cat into a container and it does the same. 

Need proof? Treat yourself and search online for…

The most popular idea for what causes depression in the brain is some kind of chemical imbalance. Many pharmaceutical companies have claimed in their advertising that their antidepressant drugs work by correcting this imbalance. The notion has even been popular with some mental health…

Our bodies are always moving, even when we don’t realize it. We churn through a solar system on a wobbly planet, stand upon shifting tectonic plates, and rise and fall and toss and turn all day and night in a symphony of autonomic and somatic functions. Dizzying though this may seem, life…

If you think this sounds familiar, you’re not wrong. When Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, scientists, archivists, and librarians at the University of Pennsylvania raced to save data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NOAA. Another group in Michigan, also fearing…