Category: 7. SciTech

By 2050, education will look radically different than it does now, according to psychologist and social scientist Howard Gardner — the originator of the theory of multiple intelligences — and Anthea Roberts, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and founder and CEO of the AI tool…

You know when you stare at cute things for too long and they start to look creepy? I’m thinking garden gnomes, baby dolls, any child in a princess outfit and all cats. Well, now there’s another one to add to the list.

The tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) might look bright-

The Amazon rainforest is losing the rainfall that sustains it, pushing the world’s largest tropical ecosystem closer to a potential tipping point, scientists warn.

A new study, published in Nature Communications, has found that deforestation is driving a sharp fall in rainfall during the…

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied energy and convert it to usable electricity?

This is a…

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been…

Eating breakfast later as you get older could be linked to poorer health and an early death, according to a recent study of 3000 adults.

Following participants for an average of 22 years, scientists found that those who tended to eat breakfast later in the morning were slightly less likely to…

Plastic particles from takeout containers and other day-to-day products are making their way into the brain and triggering Alzheimer’s-like…

Dutch courage may really help when it comes to speaking a foreign language, according to this year’s Ig Nobel Prize…

Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering whether painting…

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are evading efforts to control them in growing numbers.

But this may be coming to an end soon, as a group of…