How Technology Made the S’more PossibleThe gooey, chocolatey s’more couldn’t have been popularized without the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the massesBy Jeffrey Miller & The Conversation USGirl eats a messy s'more. The following...
New Satellites Alone Won’t Stop the Methane Climate CrisisNew regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reductionBy Justin Mikulka & Sharon WilsonFlames from a...
Lab-Grown Meat Is Getting Closer to Tasting Like Real BeefCultured meat that tastes and smells more appetizing could enhance public perception of artificial steaksBy Helena Kudiabor & Nature magazine Cristina Pedrazzini/Science Photo Library/Getty ImagesMeat grown in the lab has been...
The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians preserved 30,000 of them—including the 4,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh....
Can One Chatbot Catch Another’s Lies?A new approach uses language models to interrogate other language models and sniff out liesBy Max Springer If you ask an artificial intelligence system such as ChatGPT where the Eiffel Tower is, chances are the...
Stars Hint at an Unusual Black Hole Lurking in Our GalaxyImages taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size black hole in the star cluster Omega CentauriBy Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazineAstronomers can use the movements of...
How Game Designers Secretly Run Your LifeGames have captivated people since ancient times. Now they run our livesBy Kelly Clancy Boris Zhitkov/Getty ImagesIn an ancient Hindu hymn, a game of dice was compared to an addictive drug. Three thousand years...
Find the Perfect Game to Play with This Interactive QuizFrom board games to solo puzzles to fantastical escapes to tricks for running faster, find a game for every moodBy Diana Kwon Klaus Vedfelt/Getty ImagesAre you a seasoned video gamer or...
Board games might involve a race to a finish line, as in Sorry! or that ubiquitous first board game for kids, Candyland. Or they might entail a strategic battle for dominance, as in chess or checkers. Some have simple rules...
The point of no return was when I started the fire in the university parking lot.I ripped a pile of reports out of a confused bureaucrat’s hands and ran as fast as I could. Once I was outside, I grabbed...
