Category: Technology

What the Israeli hostages have had to go through is unimaginable. The trauma of that unexpected, barbaric attack by Hamas, the murder of loved ones, then being violently abducted and dragged down into tunnels deep underground in Gaza. We live in a society where we often talk about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but […]

HW Electro’s Puzzle modular electric minivan is a small commercial van with a puzzle-inspired design. HW Electro introduced Puzzle, Japan’s first LCV vehicle (Light Commercial Vehicle), during the Japan Mobility Show 2023. Expected to go into production in 2025, it’s all about being eco-friendly, connected, and making a positive impact. After debuting at the Japan […]

In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing “the shape of an epidemic”. The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep peak before falling again. Vallance explained that delaying and reducing the height of that peak was essential to […]

To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a step change in how to measure poverty and […]

As a marine biologist, I’ve always found it fascinating to learn about how animals adapt to their habitat. But climate change has made it more important than ever – wild animals’ futures may depend on how much we understand about them. Fish have a kind of stone in their ear that scientists can read like […]

A powerful cosmic ray hit Earth. Telescope Array detects the second highest-energy cosmic ray ever. The international collaboration of researchers known as the Telescope Array in their study, published on November 23, 2023, in the journal Science, analyses the realm of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, detailing the distinctive features of the particles, suggesting that these rare […]

Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows. For 119 years, a belief that the way honeybees cluster together gives them a kind of evolutionary insulation has been fundamental for beekeeping practice, hive design and […]

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion theory for pattern formation. PhD […]