Category: Technology

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools aimed at the general public, such as ChatGPT, Bard, CoPilot and Dall-E have incredible potential to be used for good. The benefits range from an enhanced ability by doctors to diagnose disease, to expanding access to professional and academic expertise. But those with criminal intentions could also exploit and subvert these […]

In some cultures, people are frugal while in others they tend to be generous. Some cultures favour meticulous planning while others favour living in the moment. Theories abound about how and why differences like these between cultures emerge and, increasingly, researchers are looking to the environments people live in for answers. In this episode of […]

In the middle of 2023, a study conducted by the HuthLab at the University of Texas sent shockwaves through the realms of neuroscience and technology. For the first time, the thoughts and impressions of people unable to communicate with the outside world were translated into continuous natural language, using a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Every minute, millions of social media posts, photos and videos flood the internet. On average, Facebook users share 694,000 stories, X (formerly Twitter) users post 360,000 posts, Snapchat users send 2.7 million snaps and YouTube users upload more than 500 hours of video. This vast ocean of online material needs to be constantly monitored for […]

Oleg Kononenko performing a spacewalk.  NASA Russian astronaut sets world record for most time in space with more than 878 days aboard the ISS. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has set a remarkable new record for time spent in space, surpassing all others in human history. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, confirmed that Kononenko has logged […]

The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, co-existed in western Eurasia 50–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike. It is therefore not surprising that this time period – the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition – has been a focus of research for many archaeologists, physical […]

The Nile is one of the world’s most famous rivers. It’s also Africa’s most important freshwater system. About 300 million people live in the 11 countries it flows through. Many rely on its waters for agriculture and fishing to make a living. The Nile’s two main tributaries, the Blue Nile and the White Nile, come […]

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Researchers suggest deploying a colossal “umbrella” as big as Argentina, positioned 9 million miles away from Earth, to block Sun‘s rays. They claim this could reduce global warming by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit within two years. To kickstart the project, scientists at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, are seeking $20 million to create […]

When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were not dinosaurs but their evolutionary cousins. We’ve just announced the discovery of a new species of pterosaur nearly 15 years after a fossil was […]