Our land and seas are being polluted by vast amounts of plastic trash. Now, they employing chemical trickery to create materials that are indefinitely and easily recyclable. Making bonds between atoms…
Will the UK’s new Online Safety Bill keep people safe online?
Even if bitcoin’s value continues to fall, Bukele, an ex-marketer who has placed his image as a tech-savvy messiah on his cryptocurrency gamble, is unlikely to back down, according to several…
The rule for how trees branch proposed by Leonardo da Vinci was close, but incorrect.
The surface area of a limb, not its thickness, determines how it branches. When it came to trees, Leonardo da Vinci was completely wrong. Over 500 years ago, the multitalented Renaissance…
Butterflies, like lizards, may lose their ‘tails.’
Birds seem to be drawn to the spindly sections, which may easily break off, allowing them to flee. “Tails” on some butterfly wings may be more than just pretty decorations. According…
1 million years ago, AI discovered concealed evidence of ancient human fires.
At a 1-million-year-old archaeological site in Israel, an AI tool discovered subtle evidence of modifications in flint artifacts that show ancient humans had cooking fires. At a 1-million-year-old archaeological site in Israel,…
The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Stifle Medical Research
At a White House news conference in December 1994, then-US surgeon general C. Everett Koop announced a national weight-loss program, claiming that obesity had become the country’s second-leading cause of mortality,…
Is it a Delusion or an Insight When Things Feel Unreal?
Derealization, a psychiatric illness, raises serious moral and philosophical issues. Have you ever had the uneasy feeling that nothing is as it seems? Since childhood, a student at Stevens Institute of…