Category: Technology

This morning, my six-year-old came into our bedroom and started reading a story from a book. She followed each word on the page, slowly forming full sentences. Sometimes she stumbled and asked for help with some “funny words,” but by the end of the book, she had told us a story about a bear in […]

Black holes are mysterious objects – there’s a lot we don’t know about them. One longstanding question has been whether rotating black holes, which are so powerful they drag space-time along with them, could be used as an energy source. The physicist Roger Penrose suggested that, if an object fell into a rotating black hole […]

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of the measurements, and interpretations and implications of this discovery, were a source of fierce debate. We now know the universe emerged dramatically from a highly compressed state in an event known as the Big Bang. […]

Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler tells the story of a fraudster who convinces women he met on a dating app to “loan” him large sums of money. It shows the devastating financial damage and psychological trauma online romance fraud can inflict on its victims. But it’s not just carried out by individuals – sometimes it’s […]

Neil Harbisson is the world’s first officially recognised human cyborg, having had a device installed in his head to enable him to “hear” colours in the early 2000s. He is the subject of Cyborg: A Documentary, the first full-length film by London-based director Carey Born. This thought-provoking work, which launched in UK cinemas on September […]

In elephant family groups made up of related females and their young, it is clear that the animals produce vocal sounds to coordinate action. This happens when it’s time to leave a waterhole, for example. The matriarch or dominant female steps away from the waterhole and turns to the direction she intends to move in. […]

When German journalist Martin Bernklau typed his name and location into Microsoft’s Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified him. Copilot’s results had asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser and a conman preying on widowers. For years, Bernklau […]

The growing capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming industries and changing how we live, communicate, and solve problems. But for Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech, founder and CEO of Generative AI for Good, and Chen Shmilo, CEO of the 8200 Alumni Association, AI isn’t just a tool for progress—it’s both a vehicle for social change […]

A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa. Some cryptozoologists – people who look for legendary animals like the Loch Ness Monster – have suggested the painting might depict […]