Velvet ants sting by injecting venom from their abdomenJojo Dexter/Getty Images The sting of a female velvet ant is one of the most painful in the animal kingdom. Now, researchers have discovered that these insects have multiple proteins in their...
Pluto (right) and its moon Charon, photographed by NASA’s New Horizons probe in 2015NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto and its moon Charon may have been briefly locked together in a cosmic “kiss”, before the dwarf planet released the smaller body and recaptured it...
January 6, 20255 min readThe Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with ScientistsPropaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of scienceBy Dan Vergano edited by Jeanna BrynerDr. Anthony Fauci,...
This mathematical trick will let you work out the weekday of any dateH. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Alamy Time comes in cycles, and we deal with it using a cyclic number system. What time is 5 hours after 10pm? Hopefully you would say...
In the latest Tron movie, Jared Leto’s AI has an offer for humanityDisney Enterprises When your goofy, low-budget, horror sci-fi about an AI doll that runs amok grosses $180 million, you would be foolish not to make another. Three years...
A covid-19 hospital under construction in Wuhan, ChinaSTR/AFP via Getty Images It has been five years since covid-19 emerged, triggering a global pandemic that has had lasting consequences on societies, economies and people’s health. Soon after the virus was identified,...
Mining for rare earth metals comes with environmental consequencesJoe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Rare earth elements used in smartphones and electric vehicles could be extracted from the ground more sustainably using electric fields. Today, most rare earth metals used in...
Thermokarst lakes, formed from thawing permafrost, in AlaskaThe Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images As the Arctic gets warmer, large quantities of greenhouse gas could be released from the sediment at the bottom of lakes, a source that has previously been...
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall takes place in a flooded future New York CityShutterstock / Munimara If you are emerging from post-holiday stupors in desperate need of fresh horizons and new worlds to explore, then I...
Graphs and data were vital to understanding the spread of the coronavirusDaniel Leal-Olivas – WPA Pool/Getty Images As the covid-19 pandemic took hold, the world was transfixed and transformed while we came to terms with just how vulnerable society is...
