Category: Technology

Autumn is the best time to get ahead with next season's planting. Mrs.Rungnapa akthaisong/Shutterstock Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help keep your home that bit cooler next summer. As the autumn planting season begins, this is a great time to […]

You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologise or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. These chilling words, written in July during a test by an unreleased AI model under development by OpenAI, lay undetected for nearly […]

Two models wearing Jizai Arms, an additional robotic arms system developed at the University of Tokyo. Kazuaki Koyama/JIZAI ARMS Project, University of Tokyo How many times have you asked someone to hold open a door while carrying something, or fumbled with your front-door keys with your arms full of shopping? Wouldn’t it be great if […]

Sergii Kozii/Shutterstock Humans have an innate connection to nature – a concept known called biophilia. Studies have shown the biophilic connection we experience being surrounded by plants improves our mental state and may even slightly shorten hospital recovery rates. This connection has driven the desire for greenery throughout history, with the Victorians even renting rare […]

sutadimages/Shutterstock Even as the rollout of the 5G network continues around the world, the race to design and build the sixth generation of mobile infrastructure has begun. The new, global 6G network represents a fundamental shift in what a mobile network is built to do. Where previous generations were designed primarily as pipelines for transporting […]

Simple Line/Shutterstock Scientists have known for more than 60 years that animals can sense the Earth’s magnetic field, and there is a wealth of behavioural evidence supporting their use of this cue as a navigation mechanism. But despite this evidence, there’s no consensus as to how animals actually sense the magnetic field. Magnetic cues appear […]

Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life within hundreds of kilometres of the blasts was shattered. Ash was dispersed across much of North America and the effects […]

Master1305/Shutterstock Imagine you are at a cocktail party. The room is crowded, people are coming and going, and you can barely hear your friend as they tell you some juicy gossip about the date they went on last week. The fact you can still follow what they’re saying is down to your brain performing some […]

Stir crazy? udra11 Battenberg cake is one of my favourite cakes. But when I tell people that one of the things I like most about this cake is its E-number, they tend to look at me strangely. It contains the raising agent E541, acidic sodium aluminium phosphate, which is one of the most restricted food […]

Would Ted be coming with you in an emergency? 4_17amdani/Shutterstock Imagine it’s the dead of night. Your phone pings with a text – it’s a government emergency alert: “Leave your home immediately! Only take with you enough supplies for the next three days.” What would you want in your go-bag? Our new survey of UK […]