Category: Technology

Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged. According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll of vast forests stretching from coast to coast. In these lush habitats, around 21 million years ago, the earliest ancestors of apes and humans first evolved […]

“We didn’t wake up in the craze of sustainability, and said jeez, we need to get on the bandwagon.”  When Schneider Electric, the French multinational best known for its electric switchboards, announced this week it was launching software to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) decarbonize, its president of sustainable business, Steve Wilhite, wanted me […]

If all goes to plan, sometime in November 2024, NASA’s newly announced Artemis II crew – Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen – will cram themselves into their Orion space capsule and begin their final checks for launch. As they sit perched atop the gargantuan Space Launch System (SLS) rocket […]

On April 13, 2023, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a spacecraft destined for Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – or JUICE – will spend at least three years on Jupiter’s moons after it arrives in 2031. In October 2024, NASA is also planning to launch a robotic spacecraft […]

Children love to spin. Whether it is by whirling around on their feet, whipping around on a tyre swing, or tumbling down a grassy hill, they revel in the drunken effects of dizziness that follow. As humans mature, they might outgrow spinning on the playground, but find other ways to alter their senses – dancing, […]

Ninety Percent of advertisers think affiliate programs are essential to their marketing strategy, and marketers extensively use affiliate marketing to promote their brands and products. However, though affiliate marketing is a huge and growing industry, not everyone succeeds. There are some affiliate marketers playing in billions while some others struggle to earn even pennies from […]

April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of mathematician and philosopher John Venn. You may well be familiar with Venn diagrams – the ubiquitous pictures of typically two or three intersecting circles, illustrating the relationships between two or three collections of things. For example, during the pandemic, Venn diagrams helped to illustrate symptoms […]

Finding a theory of everything – explaining all the forces and particles in the universe – is arguably the holy grail of physics. While each of its main theories works extraordinarily well, they clash also with each other – leaving physicists to search for a deeper, more fundamental theory. But do we really need a […]

A linguistic arms race is raging online – and it isn’t clear who’s winning. On one side are social networks like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. These sites have become better and better at identifying and removing language and content that violates their community standards. Social media users are on the other side, and they’ve come […]

The word “permacrisis” was selected as the word of the year for 2022, referring to a feeling of being permanently in crisis. The business world has certainly faced continuous and increasingly frequent disruptions over the last few years. These included COVID-19, lots of people leaving the workforce, geopolitical events and now the emergence of sophisticated […]